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Yep. There's going to be a lot of busing going on all over west county. As the parent of a 9th grader, I'm glad he'll be in college when this happens.

There already is a lot of busing going on all over the west county. Have you looked at the school boundaries? Lots of kids on long bus rides.

And hardly any of those will be improved when boundaries are determined largely by race and income. Meanwhile many more kids will be bused to balance the demographics between the schools.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Yup. It's going to be a long four years of this.

Of talking about busing? Yep.

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Yep. There's going to be a lot of busing going on all over west county. As the parent of a 9th grader, I'm glad he'll be in college when this happens.

There already is a lot of busing going on all over the west county. Have you looked at the school boundaries? Lots of kids on long bus rides.

And hardly any of those will be improved when boundaries are determined largely by race and income. Meanwhile many more kids will be bused to balance the demographics between the schools.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Apparently you are one of the 9% of MoCo resident who favors busing. Everyone else wants their kids in the closest school to their home.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the presentation from the meeting last week. It is not about boundary study, more about the project team, schedule, and site:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/facilities/construction/project/MCPS%20Community%20Work%20Session%201%20_20211028.pdf

Looks like they are putting a STEM/IT/Bioscience focus in the school. That's great. IMO, it will be great school.

Yes it will be a great school. But if your kids are the first ones going to a brand new high school, that’s still a big impact on their future.

Huh...how so?

A brand new school needs several years to establish and also let colleges familiarize with it.

A brand new school will attract some of the best, enthusiastic teachers to join the school. Colleges don’t need to be “familiar” with it. They know MCPS and the curriculum. Kids won’t be impacted just because they go to a new school.

Well they will be. Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

they will survive and be fine. It's not like they are moving across the county. Hopefully, the new programs will be great.

Most people who move to MoCo do it so their kids can thrive, not just survive. With survival as MCOS's benchmark, it's no wonder so many people are fleeing.

Where are all these fleeing people? We're still crowded in our schools.

Look at MCOS's demographics and which schools are overcrowded or underattened and it'll tell you exactly who and where the people fled from. Hint: UMC white people are leaving in droves white dirt poor Hispanics are flooding in. The problem is that those UMC white people are taking their UMC money with them.

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Yep. There's going to be a lot of busing going on all over west county. As the parent of a 9th grader, I'm glad he'll be in college when this happens.

There already is a lot of busing going on all over the west county. Have you looked at the school boundaries? Lots of kids on long bus rides.

And hardly any of those will be improved when boundaries are determined largely by race and income. Meanwhile many more kids will be bused to balance the demographics between the schools.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Yup. It's going to be a long four years of this.

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Yep. There's going to be a lot of busing going on all over west county. As the parent of a 9th grader, I'm glad he'll be in college when this happens.

There already is a lot of busing going on all over the west county. Have you looked at the school boundaries? Lots of kids on long bus rides.

And hardly any of those will be improved when boundaries are determined largely by race and income. Meanwhile many more kids will be bused to balance the demographics between the schools.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

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Anonymous wrote:This is the presentation from the meeting last week. It is not about boundary study, more about the project team, schedule, and site:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/facilities/construction/project/MCPS%20Community%20Work%20Session%201%20_20211028.pdf

Looks like they are putting a STEM/IT/Bioscience focus in the school. That's great. IMO, it will be great school.

Yes it will be a great school. But if your kids are the first ones going to a brand new high school, that’s still a big impact on their future.

Huh...how so?

A brand new school needs several years to establish and also let colleges familiarize with it.

A brand new school will attract some of the best, enthusiastic teachers to join the school. Colleges don’t need to be “familiar” with it. They know MCPS and the curriculum. Kids won’t be impacted just because they go to a new school.

Well they will be. Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

they will survive and be fine. It's not like they are moving across the county. Hopefully, the new programs will be great.

Most people who move to MoCo do it so their kids can thrive, not just survive. With survival as MCOS's benchmark, it's no wonder so many people are fleeing.

Where are all these fleeing people? We're still crowded in our schools.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the presentation from the meeting last week. It is not about boundary study, more about the project team, schedule, and site:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/facilities/construction/project/MCPS%20Community%20Work%20Session%201%20_20211028.pdf

Looks like they are putting a STEM/IT/Bioscience focus in the school. That's great. IMO, it will be great school.

Yes it will be a great school. But if your kids are the first ones going to a brand new high school, that’s still a big impact on their future.

Huh...how so?

A brand new school needs several years to establish and also let colleges familiarize with it.

A brand new school will attract some of the best, enthusiastic teachers to join the school. Colleges don’t need to be “familiar” with it. They know MCPS and the curriculum. Kids won’t be impacted just because they go to a new school.

Well they will be. Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

they will survive and be fine. It's not like they are moving across the county. Hopefully, the new programs will be great.

Most people who move to MoCo do it so their kids can thrive, not just survive. With survival as MCOS's benchmark, it's no wonder so many people are fleeing.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a boundary study that starts about 18 months before Crown is expected to open, to decide on the Crown boundaries.

Isn't 18 months optimistic? I feel like even the new RM elementary school boundaries took longer than that... And there will be 10 times as many angry people when it comes to Crown.

That means MCPS will start the boundary analysis in late 2024 or early 25 in order to start in Fall 26? Yikes. 2022 seems more realistic unless MCPS is just railroading it through? But they'd still need to pick the teachers at least a year before to prepare, and planning curriculum / courses least a year before that to know what teachers they need. 2022 seems like the latest they can start on this?

They want to limit the political fallout to as short a time as possible.

Exactly. Pro-busers have taken their foot off the gas pedal because they know that the can get busing done piece by piece with little resistance instead of all at one. Crown will bust up QO and Wootton while Woodward will bust up WJ, BCC, Whitman, and Churchill.

Wootton will be under capacity by 2026. Not sure how to justify that while RM, Gaithersburg, QO and Northwest will all be over capacity.

The area right across Fields Rd from Crown HS is currently zoned to Wootton. That is why it will be included in the boundary study.

Certainly hope that’s the only area impacted by crown.

Dufief is closer to Crown than it is to Wootton.

Half of Wootton district is closer to crown than Wootton. That makes the area very unstable.

Not really. Proximity SHOULD be the reason to be rezoned. Unfortunately diversity will be the reason there's a lot more kids rezoned farther from home than necessary.

Half of Wootton is closer and has more Asians

True. But many of them will be bused to RM, Gaithersburg, Rockville, etc to balance the diversity in those schools, not just Crown.

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Yep. There's going to be a lot of busing going on all over west county. As the parent of a 9th grader, I'm glad he'll be in college when this happens.

There already is a lot of busing going on all over the west county. Have you looked at the school boundaries? Lots of kids on long bus rides.

And hardly any of those will be improved when boundaries are determined largely by race and income. Meanwhile many more kids will be bused to balance the demographics between the schools.

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Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

No. They will walk to the new school in their neighborhood, along with all of their friends in the neighborhood.

Except crown area, who’s walkable to crown high school? Certainly not most of Wootton

Crown, Rio, those apartments on Shady Grove Road, Decoverly, some of the neighborhood across Muddy Branch from Belward Farm, maybe Lakelands Ridge... That's all on the one side of 270. There's more on the other side of 270, but I don't think MCPS would expect kids walk over 270 on Shady Grove Road, because that walk is awful. On the other hand, MCPS expects Blair kids to walk over the Beltway on University.

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Well they will be. Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

Imagine in 9th grade they ride a school bus to School A, then in 10th grade they ride a school bus or walk to School B along with many other students formerly assigned to School A! Horror! Infamy!

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Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

No. They will walk to the new school in their neighborhood, along with all of their friends in the neighborhood.

Except crown area, who’s walkable to crown high school? Certainly not most of Wootton

Typically, if you live within 2 miles of a HS, you're in the walk zone.

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Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

No. They will walk to the new school in their neighborhood, along with all of their friends in the neighborhood.

Except crown area, who’s walkable to crown high school? Certainly not most of Wootton

Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

No. They will walk to the new school in their neighborhood, along with all of their friends in the neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the presentation from the meeting last week. It is not about boundary study, more about the project team, schedule, and site:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/facilities/construction/project/MCPS%20Community%20Work%20Session%201%20_20211028.pdf

Looks like they are putting a STEM/IT/Bioscience focus in the school. That's great. IMO, it will be great school.

Yes it will be a great school. But if your kids are the first ones going to a brand new high school, that’s still a big impact on their future.

Huh...how so?

A brand new school needs several years to establish and also let colleges familiarize with it.

A brand new school will attract some of the best, enthusiastic teachers to join the school. Colleges don’t need to be “familiar” with it. They know MCPS and the curriculum. Kids won’t be impacted just because they go to a new school.

Well they will be. Imagine until 10th grade they’re with their friends, then they’re bused to a brand new high school.

they will survive and be fine. It's not like they are moving across the county. Hopefully, the new programs will be great.

Of course they’ll survive. Going to UMD or going to Montgomery college both survives.