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How utterly arrogant. No wonder why the board acts like an aristocracy.

The Board of Education acts like 7 adults who won their elections (meaning, the majority of voters voted for them over the other candidate(s)), and 1 high school student who won their election (meaning, the majority of MS and HS students voted for them over the other candidate).

So, if you want to "vote out" the sitting board, here's what you need to do: Find a candidate you support (or run for office yourself), campaign, fundraise, and win the election. Times seven. (And then, you/your candidate get to serve on the board for the aristocratic salary of $25,000 a year.)

It's a lot more work than sitting in front of a screen somewhere, complaining.

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How utterly arrogant. No wonder why the board acts like an aristocracy.

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Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

That's not true. Your alternative option is to vote out the sitting board!

1. This is not something that you, personally, can do.
2. Only a few seats are on the ballot at each election (every 2 years).
3. As far as I know, no Montgomery County Board of Education has ever retroactively rescinded a boundary change.

Other than that, though...

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Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

That's not true. Your alternative option is to vote out the sitting board!

1. This is not something that you, personally, can do.
2. Only a few seats are on the ballot at each election (every 2 years).
3. As far as I know, no Montgomery County Board of Education has ever retroactively rescinded a boundary change.

Other than that, though...

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Not for Wootton

PP, I'm sorry that you're already having these "who moved my cheese" moments about a boundary change whose study hasn't even started yet.

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Not for Wootton

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Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

The issue is a lot of people living in north Potomac/Rockville aren’t that rich. Some of them already struggle to afford the mortgage in order to send their kids to good school. Now some progressives are telling them you can go to private school. Why it’s always the poor middle class suffer? Why don’t they just tell people living more rich places like Potomac and Bethesda to do that?

You may not be aware of this, but MCPS boundary changes also happen in places in Montgomery County that aren't North Potomac/Rockville.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx

Sometimes it doesn’t change property value much and it is to address overcrowding of the schools. But it’s not the case here.

What do you mean by "here"? The reason Crown is opening is indeed to address overcrowding.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

The issue is a lot of people living in north Potomac/Rockville aren’t that rich. Some of them already struggle to afford the mortgage in order to send their kids to good school. Now some progressives are telling them you can go to private school. Why it’s always the poor middle class suffer? Why don’t they just tell people living more rich places like Potomac and Bethesda to do that?

You may not be aware of this, but MCPS boundary changes also happen in places in Montgomery County that aren't North Potomac/Rockville.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx

Sometimes it doesn’t change property value much and it is to address overcrowding of the schools. But it’s not the case here.

Anonymous wrote:Rezoning that change my property value changes my Life! But if you're good with that, you can pay me for the difference.

Re-zoning anything but closest school is a mistake, imho.

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Anonymous wrote:

Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

The issue is a lot of people living in north Potomac/Rockville aren’t that rich. Some of them already struggle to afford the mortgage in order to send their kids to good school. Now some progressives are telling them you can go to private school. Why it’s always the poor middle class suffer? Why don’t they just tell people living more rich places like Potomac and Bethesda to do that?

You may not be aware of this, but MCPS boundary changes also happen in places in Montgomery County that aren't North Potomac/Rockville.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx

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You weren't even reading what was said by the other poster.

Will Churchill and Whitman kids be bused to Watkins Mill to balance out the diversity and equity issues there?

Don't claim that this is about diversity or equity.

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Anonymous wrote:

Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

That's not true. Your alternative option is to vote out the sitting board!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

The issue is a lot of people living in north Potomac/Rockville aren’t that rich. Some of them already struggle to afford the mortgage in order to send their kids to good school. Now some progressives are telling them you can go to private school. Why it’s always the poor middle class suffer? Why don’t they just tell people living more rich places like Potomac and Bethesda to do that?

You may not be aware of this, but MCPS boundary changes also happen in places in Montgomery County that aren't North Potomac/Rockville.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx

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Anonymous wrote:

Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Without the input and consent of parents and the people living there? This is the difference between an out of control school system and a rational one.

As a parent who has been through a boundary study, I assure you that you will have plenty of opportunities to provide input.

As for consent, though: no, that's not how it works. The voters elect the Board of Education, the Board of Education makes the decision. If you personally do not consent to the rezoning, and you have school-aged children, then your alternative option is private school.

The issue is a lot of people living in north Potomac/Rockville aren’t that rich. Some of them already struggle to afford the mortgage in order to send their kids to good school. Now some progressives are telling them you can go to private school. Why it’s always the poor middle class suffer? Why don’t they just tell people living more rich places like Potomac and Bethesda to do that?