Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:57
Subject: Re:New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?
Yes they could. Why would they be protected? They would be part of the study like the other schools.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:56
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.
Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.
This. They need to scrap busing and have some type of magnet at every high school.
As someone who drives my kid to school more often than I would prefer - no. School car traffic and school car drop-off/pick-up are already madness enough. I can't imagine how bad it would be if MCPS scrapped busing.
No one is suggesting to stop busses. What they mean is to stop bussing kids to far away schools to control school demographics. It doesn't work.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:31
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Seems like there may be a battle between environmentalists and DEI folks on this matter. More bussing will increase DEI, but kill the planet. Less bussing will save the planet, but interfere with DEI quotas.
One answer would be to draw reasonable boundaries that maximize walking and biking, and let the job market take care of DEI by allowing successful minorities to move into historically homogeneous neighborhoods. This is how it has worked for decades (albeit slowly). But of course, this won't support DEI's goal of accelerated social class engineering.
The county is more and more diverse. Most of neighborhoods are not homogeneous. Yet DEI folks are getting more and more aggressive.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:29
Subject: Re:New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:27
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.
Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.
This. They need to scrap busing and have some type of magnet at every high school.
As someone who drives my kid to school more often than I would prefer - no. School car traffic and school car drop-off/pick-up are already madness enough. I can't imagine how bad it would be if MCPS scrapped busing.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:25
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
GHS seems more likely to me. 1/2 of King Farm already goes there.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.
Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.
You notice how the two HS magnet programs are in opposite corners of the county that's inconvenient for the majority of the county? There was another thread a few months back about Crown. The capacity at Crown wasn't even necessary if current boundaries were shifted?
I want to know how many overpaid MCPS Central Office / BOE staff at Hungerford send their kids to College Gardens ES or live in Kings Farm? Someone on the thread was pushing hard to insist that those areas would 100% certain be part of Crown.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:25
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.
We already don't have enough buses/drivers. Kids on my kid's MCPS school bus have to sit on the floor. Increased bussing is a terrible idea
Nobody is advocating for more busing except some anonymous sock puppets trying to stir up alarm on DCUM.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:21
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It is time to move Ritchie Park back into the Wootton Cluster. They never should have been moved out of it.
The old timers in my neighborhood still complain about this
Because it has dropped the home values by $50-90K. I would complain too! Not to mention Wootton is in walking distance to many of those neighborhoods and would save buses
We are almost to the 40 year mark on that change. How many people are still there who owned at that time?
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:21
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Seems like there may be a battle between environmentalists and DEI folks on this matter. More bussing will increase DEI, but kill the planet. Less bussing will save the planet, but interfere with DEI quotas.
One answer would be to draw reasonable boundaries that maximize walking and biking, and let the job market take care of DEI by allowing successful minorities to move into historically homogeneous neighborhoods. This is how it has worked for decades (albeit slowly). But of course, this won't support DEI's goal of accelerated social class engineering.
There are no DEI quotas. This is a "battle" you have made up in your head.
Are you interested in more walking and biking and less busing? Then start advocating for more sidewalks and safe crossings, for every school. Currently, MCPS is busing some kids to school who live literally across the street from the school.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 07:19
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It is time to move Ritchie Park back into the Wootton Cluster. They never should have been moved out of it.
The old timers in my neighborhood still complain about this
Because it has dropped the home values by $50-90K. I would complain too! Not to mention Wootton is in walking distance to many of those neighborhoods and would save buses
It happened in 1987. Nineteen eighty seven. Almost 40 years ago. If you were a homeowner in Horizon Hill before 1987, and you're still complaining about it, you've led a fortunate life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/05/25/school-shift-stirs-rockville-dispute/a460e6bd-9d22-4b6d-a490-c8aef025f231/
Anonymous
02/29/2024 06:57
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Seems like there may be a battle between environmentalists and DEI folks on this matter. More bussing will increase DEI, but kill the planet. Less bussing will save the planet, but interfere with DEI quotas.
One answer would be to draw reasonable boundaries that maximize walking and biking, and let the job market take care of DEI by allowing successful minorities to move into historically homogeneous neighborhoods. This is how it has worked for decades (albeit slowly). But of course, this won't support DEI's goal of accelerated social class engineering.
One answer would be to draw reasonable boundaries that maximize walking and biking, and let the job market take care of DEI by allowing successful minorities to move into historically homogeneous neighborhoods. This is how it has worked for decades (albeit slowly). But of course, this won't support DEI's goal of accelerated social class engineering.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 06:37
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
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Anonymous
02/29/2024 06:37
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It is time to move Ritchie Park back into the Wootton Cluster. They never should have been moved out of it.
The old timers in my neighborhood still complain about this
Because it has dropped the home values by $50-90K. I would complain too! Not to mention Wootton is in walking distance to many of those neighborhoods and would save buses
It would save less then 1 bus.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 04:17
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It is time to move Ritchie Park back into the Wootton Cluster. They never should have been moved out of it.
The old timers in my neighborhood still complain about this
Because it has dropped the home values by $50-90K. I would complain too! Not to mention Wootton is in walking distance to many of those neighborhoods and would save buses
Anonymous
02/29/2024 00:52
Subject: New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.
Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.
You are correct, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that. I also don't think there will be more busing because there are so many opportunities to reduce it and improve other factors.