Anonymous wrote:The boundary study will never help kids get into closer schools by the incumbents. It will only be used to bus in kids to have more diversity.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

Austin's proposal will definitely cause tax increases because he wants to just build rather than redraw boundaries with adjacent clusters:

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/lwvmc/pages/659/attachments/original/1588353833/VG_Primary_2020.pdf

The boundary study will never help kids get into closer schools by the incumbents. It will only be used to bus in kids to have more diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know, and I really don't care. What I care about is that my son be able to attend our local schools, not some schools in a different part of the country because of some people's ideas about social engineering. I voted for Austin (close call with Guan) and Solomon.

34% of MCPS students, right now, don't attend their closest schools.

Plenty of people who say they support Austin/"neighborhood schools" could get rezoned to schools that are closer, but they don't want that.

NP. Why do a third of MCPS students not attend the school closest to them?

I'm tired of those taking extreme positions on this issue. Lumpoange Thomas seems to have a balanced approach on most issues, which I suppose means she can't possibly win.

"34% of MCPS students don't attend their closest schools" is not an extreme position, it's a statement of fact.

The study measure each student’s travel distance, regardless community integrity, major road, or Natural barries. If your whole HOA is assigned to one school but the school is not in the center of you HOA, the far end of the HOA could be closeR to other schools than the one your house is assigned to. A school across a major road may not be your home school.

Exactly. When the school across the road from you is not the school you're assigned to, then you're not assigned to your "neighborhood school."

But Steve Austin isn't for neighborhood schools, he's just anti-boundary analysis.

Right now, my neighborhood is zoned for an elementary school farther away than 5 other schools. I can walk to two of those closer schools. But he doesn't want to have a boundary study that could reassign my neighborhood to a closer "local" school, he just wants no boundary study.

I prefer Sunil Dasgupta who wants regular studies and analysis. Maybe one day, my neighborhood will actually get reassigned to a "local" school...but not if Steve Austin is elected lol.

And for reference, I'm talking about the Ritchie Park school boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know, and I really don't care. What I care about is that my son be able to attend our local schools, not some schools in a different part of the country because of some people's ideas about social engineering. I voted for Austin (close call with Guan) and Solomon.

34% of MCPS students, right now, don't attend their closest schools.

Plenty of people who say they support Austin/"neighborhood schools" could get rezoned to schools that are closer, but they don't want that.

NP. Why do a third of MCPS students not attend the school closest to them?

I'm tired of those taking extreme positions on this issue. Lumpoange Thomas seems to have a balanced approach on most issues, which I suppose means she can't possibly win.

"34% of MCPS students don't attend their closest schools" is not an extreme position, it's a statement of fact.

The study measure each student’s travel distance, regardless community integrity, major road, or Natural barries. If your whole HOA is assigned to one school but the school is not in the center of you HOA, the far end of the HOA could be closeR to other schools than the one your house is assigned to. A school across a major road may not be your home school.

Exactly. When the school across the road from you is not the school you're assigned to, then you're not assigned to your "neighborhood school."

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know, and I really don't care. What I care about is that my son be able to attend our local schools, not some schools in a different part of the country because of some people's ideas about social engineering. I voted for Austin (close call with Guan) and Solomon.

34% of MCPS students, right now, don't attend their closest schools.

Plenty of people who say they support Austin/"neighborhood schools" could get rezoned to schools that are closer, but they don't want that.

NP. Why do a third of MCPS students not attend the school closest to them?

I'm tired of those taking extreme positions on this issue. Lumpoange Thomas seems to have a balanced approach on most issues, which I suppose means she can't possibly win.

"34% of MCPS students don't attend their closest schools" is not an extreme position, it's a statement of fact.

The study measure each student’s travel distance, regardless community integrity, major road, or Natural barries. If your whole HOA is assigned to one school but the school is not in the center of you HOA, the far end of the HOA could be closeR to other schools than the one your house is assigned to. A school across a major road may not be your home school.

Then there is this.....

Five separate islands, some requiring close to a 45 min bus ride.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/CabinJohnMS.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know, and I really don't care. What I care about is that my son be able to attend our local schools, not some schools in a different part of the country because of some people's ideas about social engineering. I voted for Austin (close call with Guan) and Solomon.

34% of MCPS students, right now, don't attend their closest schools.

Plenty of people who say they support Austin/"neighborhood schools" could get rezoned to schools that are closer, but they don't want that.

NP. Why do a third of MCPS students not attend the school closest to them?

I'm tired of those taking extreme positions on this issue. Lumpoange Thomas seems to have a balanced approach on most issues, which I suppose means she can't possibly win.

"34% of MCPS students don't attend their closest schools" is not an extreme position, it's a statement of fact.

The study measure each student’s travel distance, regardless community integrity, major road, or Natural barries. If your whole HOA is assigned to one school but the school is not in the center of you HOA, the far end of the HOA could be closeR to other schools than the one your house is assigned to. A school across a major road may not be your home school.

Anonymous wrote:Another 2 Steve voter. If MCPS got the curriculum right after 9 years of incompetence might take a gander and trust them on social engineering. But these folks can’t run a dog park - let alone a school system. Folks who vote the traditional way (Apple and Post) are placing way too much confidence in a BoE that keeps trying to please the NYT editorial page - and not the folks who give them 3 bil a year to squander.

Social engineering, like how Potomac Glen is zoned for schools that are further away - and how the Potomac Glen HOA has endorsed Steve Austin because they don't want to be reassigned to their closer, neighborhood schools?

Another 2 Steve voter. If MCPS got the curriculum right after 9 years of incompetence might take a gander and trust them on social engineering. But these folks can’t run a dog park - let alone a school system. Folks who vote the traditional way (Apple and Post) are placing way too much confidence in a BoE that keeps trying to please the NYT editorial page - and not the folks who give them 3 bil a year to squander.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Steve Solomon and Stephen Austin. I don’t need my children attending different elementary schools when the one by us was a large factor in our purchasing of a home in Bethesda. As a homeowner, I’m paying an outsized share of support for the public schools. I also don’t need to complicate the already intense two parent household we run by moving one of my kids to a different elementary school that is non-walkable, when a walkable school is what our current boundary is for.

Steve Austin is not calm enough for the job.

Nor is he qualified. What exactly qualifies him? His fans are incredibly over zealous. Have you seen his social media? Scary.... Trumpian.

Qualified? What makes the current people qualified? No, I haven’t seen his social media, and I don’t care. Again, I don’t want to have my kids in different schools, and I choose my home based in the schools. Not really understanding why people like you and the school board think you can shame homeowners into agreeing to defer to the school board to bus our kids wherever they decide is right. I’ll vote for whoever commits to fighting this. You sound like the scary one to me.

I'm gonna vote Steve Austin because he had the same name as Stone Cold.

Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Steve Solomon and Stephen Austin. I don’t need my children attending different elementary schools when the one by us was a large factor in our purchasing of a home in Bethesda. As a homeowner, I’m paying an outsized share of support for the public schools. I also don’t need to complicate the already intense two parent household we run by moving one of my kids to a different elementary school that is non-walkable, when a walkable school is what our current boundary is for.

Steve Austin is not calm enough for the job.

Nor is he qualified. What exactly qualifies him? His fans are incredibly over zealous. Have you seen his social media? Scary.... Trumpian.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know, and I really don't care. What I care about is that my son be able to attend our local schools, not some schools in a different part of the country because of some people's ideas about social engineering. I voted for Austin (close call with Guan) and Solomon.

34% of MCPS students, right now, don't attend their closest schools.

Plenty of people who say they support Austin/"neighborhood schools" could get rezoned to schools that are closer, but they don't want that.

NP. Why do a third of MCPS students not attend the school closest to them?

I'm tired of those taking extreme positions on this issue. Lumpoange Thomas seems to have a balanced approach on most issues, which I suppose means she can't possibly win.

"34% of MCPS students don't attend their closest schools" is not an extreme position, it's a statement of fact.

The two Steve's

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know, and I really don't care. What I care about is that my son be able to attend our local schools, not some schools in a different part of the country because of some people's ideas about social engineering. I voted for Austin (close call with Guan) and Solomon.

34% of MCPS students, right now, don't attend their closest schools.

Plenty of people who say they support Austin/"neighborhood schools" could get rezoned to schools that are closer, but they don't want that.

NP. Why do a third of MCPS students not attend the school closest to them?

I'm tired of those taking extreme positions on this issue. Lumpoange Thomas seems to have a balanced approach on most issues, which I suppose means she can't possibly win.