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[External] Oppose changes to polygons 148, 1148, 2148, 302 and 276 Changyi Li
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[External] Oppose the Changes to Polygons 148, 1148, 2148, 302, 276 Min Feng
My family have been living in Columbia Road, Ellicott City for more than 5 years. It's a lovely and beautiful neighborhood. My son has been going to the Northfield elementary school for two years. He is not a very social kid, but he loves his school, and made friends there and started to build his small network. Recently, we learned that the initial redistricting plans were changed few days ago, and our neighborhoods are assigned to Running Brook Elementary school, which is much further from our home than Northfield. We also learned that the plan proposals are very close to the final vote, and this last-minute changedid not leave us time for debating or providing inputs. Without providing enough public hearing nor public inputs, think this change is very thoughtless and very unfair to the families that are affected by it. We are very disappointed about it, and we believe the plan will have a huge impact to the community and especially the kids.
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https;//www.evernote.com/shard/ Looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, -Min Min Feng, Ph. D. of 1 11/4/2019, 3:23 P https://oudook. o£Bce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplmk [External] Oppose the changes to the polygons 148, 1148, 2148, 302 Xiaoying Liu I oppose the changes made to NESand DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 302) for the following reasons: 1.We object any redistricting planswithout the transparent and due process. Polygons that NES and DMS community are affected were not included in the previous proposals. Any proposal related to those Polygons should go through the public hearing and obtain public inputs. 2.The proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the corner of MD 108and US29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NESwhich created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed changewill create island for MSat 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The propsed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. 3.The changecame out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 4.The change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. S.The proposal splits the Dorsey's Search neighborhood in half moving our neighborhood's polygons (148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148) from NES and DMS to RBESand WLMS.These proposals would remove most of the affordable housing that currently attends NES and DMS-ln fact all of the townhomes and condominiums in Dorsey Search are impacted and both proposals leave only single family homes at Dorsey's Search going to NES/DMS. 6. Our community has worked very hard in the last 8 years to make our community stronger and more walkable. We now have three safe areas for crossing Columbia 1 of 2 11/4/2019, 3:23 P https://outlook.ofGce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink road, which now means for many of the proposed polygons (especially 1148 and 2148) the DMSand NES are quite walkable taking about 10-15 minutes to arrive by walking. This is especially true for the middle school feed, our kids can attend afterschool activities and walk safely home if they remain at DMS. This will not be the case at WLMS. 7. This plan is unfunded. The proposed change has not provided adequate and thoroughly reviewed cost estimates for implementing this plan. Again, without this data, how can the plan be compliant with County Policy 6010, Section IV Standards, article B. l. c., "Fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. " Given the county school system's current financial woes, to propose such a massive change without a proper and detailed cost/benefit analysis should be unacceptable, and grounds alone for the dismissal of this plan. 8. Dorsey Search Community is the leading source feeding NES. Parents are highly involved in school PTA, kids are the members of school music band and many other school dubs, this redistricting plan really disrupts NESschool community Best regards! Xiaoying Lium 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 3:23 E https://outlook. office.com/maiVredistricting@hcpss . oi^/inbox/ [External] oppose to the redistricting of polygon 1148 (Dorsey Search Community) Zhao, Feng My name is Feng Zhao, and presently a resident in Dorsey Search community, Ellicott city, MD(Polygon 1148). I am writing to strongly oppose to the redistricting our community from NorthField elementary school to Running Brook Elementary school for the following reasons. 1. There is no overcrowding issue for Northfield Elementary school. The redistricting would not help in handling the overcrowding in howard county high schools. 2. The plan development process wasflawed. The lackof community input into the proposed changes prior to the development of this proposal. 3. We object any redistricting plans withoutthe transparant and due process. Polygons that NESand DMS community are affected were not included in the previous proposals. Any proposal related to those Polygons should go through the public hearing and obtain public inputs. 4. The current proposal did not comply with Policy 6010 ('Community Stability'). The proposed change to those Polygons will negatively impact the community stability. 5. The proposed movement of students, the impact on communities and transportation is against County Policy 6010. This plan is unfunded. The proposed change has not provided adequate and thoroughly reviewed cost estimates for implementing this plan. Again, without this data, how can the plan be compliant with County Policy 6010, Section IVStandards, article B. t.c., "Fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. " Given the county school system's current financial woes, to propose such a massive change without a proper and detailed cost/benefit analysis should be unacceptable, and grounds alone for the dismissal of this plan. 6. Work sessions should either begin with whatthe Superintendent has proposed or should vote to reject the Superintendent's plan and send it back to the drawing board if it does not accomplish the numerical & statistical goals that were stated clearly at the beginning of the process. Only minor tweaks should be needed for the Superintendent's plan, if it has been done competently. 7. Every single proposed polygon move should clearly demonstrate how its movement is absolutely necessary in order to achieve the specific goals set at the beginning of the process. If that cannot be done, then it should not be included in the final plan. 8. Any alternative plan must be treated with the same scrutiny as we are applying to this plan. 9. Any alternative plan that finally passes the public bar of approval must be strictly for the overall benefit of ALL Howard County students and must minimally affect Howard County neighborhoods and communities. 10. The proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the corner of MD 108 and US 29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NES which created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed change will create island for MS at 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The proposed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more 1 of2 11/4/2019, 3:111 https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/inbox, communities. 11. The change came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacksthe samedue process asthe previous proposal. It does not receive fairenough public inputs from those communities that will be affected 12.The change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. 13. The proposal splits the Dorsey's Search neighborhood in half moving our neighborhood's polygons (148, 276, 302, 1 148, and 2148) from NESand DMSto RBESand WLMS. These proposals would remove most of the affordable housing that currently attends NES and DMS-ln fact all of the townhomes and condominiums in DorseySearch are impacted and both proposals leave only single family homes at Dorsey's Search going to NES/DMS. 14. This creates a microfeed of approximately 4% going NES-DMS-WLHS. 15. Our community has worked very hard in the last 8 years to make our community stronger and more walkable. We now have three safe areas for crossing Columbia road, which now means for manyof the proposed polygons (especially 1148and 2148) the DMSand NESare quite walkable taking about 10-15 minutes to arrive bywalking. This is especially true forthe middle school feed, our kids can attend afterschool activities and walksafely home if they remain at DMS.This will not be thecaseatWLMS. 16. DorseySearch Community is the leading source feeding NES.Parents are highlyinvolved in school PTA, kids are the members of school music band and many other school clubs, this redistricting plan really disrupts NES school community Best regards Feng Zhao 11/4/2019, 3:1IF about:b Patrick Harrington, Ph. D. 10/31/2019 Polygon1113 Members of the HCPSS School Board: I am writing to comment on some ofthe discussion from the 10/30/2019 work session, specifically related to Oakland Mills High School. 1. The initialproposal by Dr. Wu clearlymust not haveconsidered FARMS data. orIf it did.for some reason he seemedsatisfied with OaklandMills continuingto havean unchangedand dlsporttonately high FARM rate compared withthe rest ofthe county. Withthis perspective (which counters Policy 6010), I flnd it troubling that his plan is the starting point and any sort of "consensus" among the board seems like it hasto go through him first. With that said, I am thankful that he later considered the thoughtful and well-informed comments from Ms. Cutroneo aboutkeeping the Allvlew neighborhood at OMHS. I hopethis positiondoes not change and Dr. Wu continues to accept input from other board members. 2. IfPolicy 601 O* Is truly beingconsidered, I urgethe board,OMHS assignments for both Allview (56, 1056, 2056, 3056) and Thunder Hill (151, 1151, 2151) neighborhoods should not be touched. These are the most stable, fully single-family home neighborhoods In the OMHS school boundary ('Community Stability, 'Demographies). Thunder Hill is part ofthe Oakland Mills Village,just like Talbott Springsand Stevens Forest ('Community Stability). Thunder Hill residentscan walk to OMHSusing a very pleasantand safe network of walking paths, even for residents outsidethe walking boundary. There is evena paththat runs througha tunnel under Route 175, so 175 is not really a major natural boundary between Thunder Hill and OMHS. BothAllview and Thunder Hill neighborhoods are geographically closeto OMHS(and .Contiguous with the rest ofthe OMHS boundary), andthey should not have to cross 29 to go to another high school such as Wilde Lakeor Atholton. Both neighborhoods also feed into OMHS via Oakland Mills Middle School (*Feeds). Ifthese Policy 6010 factors matter for other schoolsand regions/neighborhoods,why not these neighborhoodsand Oakland Mills HS? 3. Multipleboard members have stated they want to "dono harm" in this process. A planthat (a) moves long-standing, stable, and geographically close, single-family home neighborhoods out ofOMHS, (b) maintains or increases OMHS'highest in the county FARM rate, and (c) makes the school overcrowded. Is harmful. 4. Asyou know, disproportionatelyhigh levels ofpoverty Incertain Howard County schools creates unique challenges forthose schools, challenges that cannot besolved by providing additional funding and resources thatthe school system does not have. Ifthe boaid does not considersocloeconomic factore(FARMS being the bestmeasure of this) in boundary proposals, then we will end up with the status quo. Socioeconomlc segregation between Howard County schools not only exists, but It is increasing. Please strive to reduce segregationof Howard County schools, notto maintainthe statusquo. Thank you for your consideration. lofl 11/4/2019, 3:10 P https://outlook.ofRce.com/maiI/[email protected]/inbox/ [External] Opposition to move polygons 148, 1148 and 2148 to RBES and WLMS Li Li Dear BOE members, I^am Li Li living in Ellicott City (polygon 2148) and a mom ofa 4th grader in Nonhfield Elementary School. I wasinformed that our school polygons (polygons 148, 1 148, 2148, 276, 302)are proposed to be moved to Running Brook ES andWilde LakeMS inyour updated plan madepublic last night. Our neighborhood (Dorsey Hall community, polygons148, 1148, 2148, 276 and 302 arejust part ofthe commimity) Is about 1 miles from NESand WLMS. Some communities, such asKingscup Court (polygon 2148) is only 0.7 mile fromNES and is considered"walking zone". Earlier this year, Howard county government spent halfa million dollars to constmct the Columbia Rd Roundabout (atthe junction ofKingscup Ctand Columbia Rd). A pedestrian linewas marked acrossing Columbia Rd. Our kids were happy thatthey can safely go to NESand WLMS through Hemlock Cone Wayand a trail connectingour community tothe school. Inthis regard, theproposed plan of sending thesekids to RBESand WLMS lacks the sense of financial responsibility. It alsosplit the whole Dorsey Search community into pieces, and disrupts the social connections the kids have been building in the community andschool whichwill hurt them psychologically. Also, Dorsey Search community is the leading source feeding NES. Parents in our community are actively involved in school PTA. Kids are also members ofschool orchestra, bands aswell as many other school clubs. The re-districting plans really disrupt NES andDMS community. Pleasekeep polygons 148, 1148and 2148 in ourNES and DMS, asa community. Thankyou very much for your attention Li Li 4512K.ingscupCoiirt, EllicottCity, MD21042 lofl 11/4/2019, 3:10 P https://outlook. ofGce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. oig/inbox/ [External] Polygon 2148 Kingscup court is within walking distance from NESAND DMS Madhavi Avadhani I 1 attachments(35 KB) facebook_1572S7617020B.jpg; Dear board members, Please don't move us. Please look at the attached map and see for yourselves that Kingscup court is closer to NESand DMSthan WLMSand RBES. Our kids regularly walkor bike to school. We recently had Howard county spend half a million dollars on a roundabout to slow down traffic and safely cross Columbia road. Also, The plans of Ms. Mallo and Mr. Wu have included our polygon 2148 only on 10/29 and 10/31 respectively. We have not been consulted on this matter and we are hoping that you will not approve of this undemocratic process. Sincerely, Madhavi Avadhani lofl 11/4/2019, 3:09 P. https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] Kingscup court- Polygon 2148 is within 0. 5 miles of NES and DMS Madhavi Avadhani We live in polygon 2148. Please reconsiderthe moves for Dorsey Search. Your proposal splits the Dorsey's Search neighborhood by moving half of that neighborhood's polygons (148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148) from NES and DMS to RBES and WLMS. This would significantly affect the affordable housing that currently attends NES and DMS-ln fact all of the townhomes and condominiums in Dorsey Search are impacted while most single family homes at Dorsey's Search remain at NES. Our community has worked very hard in the last 8 years to make our community stronger and more walkable. We now have three safe areas for crossing Columbia road, which now means our son can walk or bike to school less than a mile away! Please don't take away NESand DMSfrom us. Wealso need to point out these proposals are coming in at the last minute after much of the windowfor public input has alreadyclosed. Effectively our community has very little say in a process which affects them as much as this process does. I please ask that you reconsider these last minute changes that have not been subject to due process. Sincerely, Madhavi Avadhani of 1 11/4/2019, 3:081 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox/ [External] redistricting school change for polygon 2148 Nathan Wright In the strongest possible terms, I oppose the plan to move polygon 2148from Northfield Elementary School and Dunloggin Middle School to Running Brook Elementary School and Wilde Lake Middle School respectively. I havefive children, four ofwhom would be immediately affected by this plan. Currently my children can walkto school, this plan would completely destroythat. Aren't we trying to encouragethis kind of physical activity and ecologically responsible behavior? There arethree elementary schools andtwo middle schools closer to our home than Runningbrookand Wilde Lake. Howin anywayis moving a child thisfar in their best interests? It is not. It is incredibly inefficient - reason enough to abandon this plan in my opinion. My son, who currently walks home from Dunloggin would now be forced to ride a bus upwards of an hour a day. He doesn't have that kind of time. We don't have that kind of time. If he stays after school to participate in extracurricular activities, my wifewould be obligatedto pick him up-a wasteofa halfan houra dayfor her assuming no traffic. This is outrageous not to mention the impact it would have on the other children in ourfamily who are in a similar situation. If our children must change schools (which would be a poor decision), it would make much more sense to change to one of the schools closer than Runningbrook Elementary and Wilde LakeMiddle. 2148is one of the closest possible polygonsto Dunloggin Middle Schooland you're moving us to another school? That makes no sense. 2148 is one of the closest polygons to Northfield Elementary and you're moving us to another school? That makes no sense. Additionally, this change would introduce yet another school change for my children. When we moved to HowardCounty, we choseto live in this area specifically becauseof the schools and our proximityto them. Nowwe're havingthe rug pulled out from under us. My children, who have already changed schools once in the last three years would now have to change schools again. My daughter, who is not even in the fourth grade yet, would be attending her third elementary school. Does that make any sense at all??? How is that possibly the best thing for this child? How would you feel if this were your child? It is hard enough to transition to a new grade or go from elementary school to middle school much less transitioning to another middle or elementary school. We may as well move to a different county altogether as make this change. "Kidsare resilient, " some people say. But kids also sometimes have long memories and are also vulnerable. Some things they never forget and some things stay with them a very longtime. The more disruption we create, the bigger disservice we do our children. I appreciate that you're trying to do the best you can in a difficult situation. But trying to possibly make things better for someone else, by making them worse for another is not a solution. Our situation is not broken; please don'tattempt to fix it. Moving childrenfrom a school whichis withinwalking distance to a school that is multiple other schools awaymakes no sense. This is not the right thingfor our family. implore you, please don't make things worse for us. Sincerely, Nathan Wright lofl 11/4/2019, 3:091 https://outlook. ofiRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' Re: Automatic reply: [External] Relocation affects Tom Saccone OnThu, Oct 31, 2019, 10:26 PM Hcpss Redistricting The Board's schedule is as follows: PublicHearings: fwill be held in the Boardroom with satellite rooms available and televised/web streamed live) Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 7 p. m. - Attendance Area Adjustment Public Hearing I RegionI - Centennial HS, HowardHS, Ml. Hebron HS, OaklandMills HSand feeder schoolsby high school Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 7 p. m. - Attendance Area Adjustment Public Hearing II Region II-AtholtonHS, HammondHS, LongReachHS, Wilde Lake HS andfeeder schools by high school Thursday, September 26, 2019, 7 p.m. - Attendance Area Adjustment Public Hearing III Region III- Glenelg HS, Marriotts Ridge HS, Reservoir HS, River Hill HS andfeeder schools by highschool Work Sessions: Adoption: Thursday, November21, 2019, 7 p.m. Attendance AreaAdjustment Plan Approval lof2 11/4/2019, 3:07 P https://outlook. o£fice.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplmk' Note that written testimony is part ofthe public record maintainedby the Board Officeand is uploadedonline to BoardDocsas part ofthe public hearingprocess. The public is ableto submit official written testimony until 4:30 p. m. on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at redistrictingfaihcpss. org. All Board members have access to this email account. Werequest that testimony not be submitted to individual Board members nor at boe@hcpss. orB as it will not be considered official public testimony. Regardingquestions aboutremaining at current schools. Attendance AreaAdjustments follow PoUcy_6010 School Attendance Areas and Policy 9000 StudentResidency, Eligibility, Enrollment and Assignment, which I have linked for your convenience. Once again, thankyou for contactingthe Board andproviding valuable input. Ifyou have any questions, feel free to contact me at 410-313-7194. Kind regards, Kathy Hanks Administrator Board of Education Phone: 410-313-7194 Fax: 410-313-6633 Email: kathleen hanks(2),hcpss.org 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 3:071 https://outlook. ofBce. com/maiI/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/inbox/ [External] Relocation affects Tom Saccone I was relocated as a child... I went from one school district, to another... there were 12 of us... What I went through was not bullying, it was Brutal. We were outsiders, and what kids do is they beat the outsiders. Im asking you from someone who has been beaten for 6 years, because was a small kid... To rethink this. My son, will be part of this... This is something as a 42 year old, DO NOTWANT TO HAPPEN TO MY SON, or any other child. Yourjob, as we elected you, was for one purpose... Take care of our kids. Every decision you make should be in their best interest, not polygons, diversity numbers, or anything aside from their well being. Keep these kids within walking distance from their school... We alljust paid for a walking path. Now the proposal is to bus them 3 districts away. This flys in the face of logic. Make the right decision. Thomas lofl 11/4/2019, 3:041 10^1/2019 SchoolRedistrict Plan - Googte Docs Dear Board Members, We have moved to our neighbourhood 5 years ago. We have 3 kids attending school at Northfield elementary. People know one another and friendships are formed within the boundaries of the school district. In the last 4 year we have worked so hard to make our community safer for our kids to walk to school. We now have three safe areas for crossing Columbia road, which now means for many of the proposed polygons (especially 1148 and 2148) the DMS and NES are quite walkable taking about 10-15 minutes to arrive by walking. Please reconsider the moves for Dorsey Search at NES/DMS/WLHS. Mr. Chao Wu and Jen Mallo proposal on 10/13/2019 splits the Dorsey's Search neighborhood in half moving our neighborhood's polygons (148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148) from NES and DMS to RBES and WLMS. These proposals would remove most of the affordable housing that currently attends NES and DMS-In fact all of the townhomes and condominiums in Dorsey Search are impacted and both proposals leave only single family homes at Dorsey's Search going to NES/DMS. Additionally this creates a microfeed of approximately 4% going NES-DMS-WLHS. We also need to point out these proposals are coming in at the last minute after public input has already closed. Thanks Ayat Gad https://docs. google. com/document/d/10ChWmFut-rsea460eXYi_f2UjIx9wkSRJ9AHp7YvMEY/edit 1/1 https://outlook. ofifice.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink? [External] Oppose Howard County Redistricting Proposal Margaret Wright Moving children from one school to another breaks up the unity and community feel that each school is trying to instill in the students. Already students are staying away from classmates that are not going to the same high school as them. Please, let's not create more segregation, awkwardness, and isolationism. School is intellectually and socially hard and challenging enough as it is. Please, do not redistrict the students. Please, build new schools where needed. Help communities stay together. Margaret Wright lofl 11/4/2019, 2:58 about:bl To: Howard County Public School System 1091OCIarksville Pike, EllicottCity, MD21042 Date: 10/31/2019 RE: Recent redistricting proposals by Mallo and Wu Dear Board Members, I live in polygon 2148. I am very concerned to hear about the recent proposals made by BOE members: Jen Mallo and Chao Wu. My family moved to this community 4 years ago becauseof the walkable distanceto the school. My kids go to Northfield Elementary School. I am shocked to hear about the redistricting proposal. I resent the idea of having to move our kids around like cogs in a machinefor some unknown reason and unsound logic. While I understand the intention of creating more diversity in schools, do not believe this is going to create the desired outcomes. There are many problems with the redistricting proposals. 1. Problem #1: These proposals splits the Dorsey'sSearch neighborhoodin half moving our neighborhood's polygons (148, 278, 302, 1148, and 2148) from NES and DMS to RBES and WLMS 2. Problem #2: These proposals would remove most of the affordable housing that currently attends NES and DMS-In fact all of the townhomes and condos in Dorsey Search are impacted and both proposals leave only single family homes at Dorsey's Search going to NES/DMS 3. Problem S3: The proposal creates a microfeed of approximately 4% going NES-DMS-WLHS 4. Problem #4: These proposals create an undue hardship for families whose kids are able to safely walk to school because of the walkable distance to NES and DMS.Many ofwhich live in the proposed polygons especially 1148 and 2148. This will not be the case at WLMS We are a strong, supportive and extremely diverse community who works very hard to support all our schools. Please keep our community together. We want all our schools to succeed, but we also wantyou to listen to all our voices.Please listen to us (your voters). We will not forget at the polls. Thank you for your consideration. A very concerned parent. lofl 11/4/2019, 2:52 P https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox/i [External] Vote NO to Howard County Redistricting Proposal selleithy@gmail. com Thu 10/31/2019 10:27 PM To: Hcpss Redistricting J 1 attachments (56 KB) Redistricting - Polygon 2148.pdf; Dear BOE members, I am shocked to hear about the last minute redistricting proposals for polygon 2148. Please see my attached letter in response to the recent redistricting proposals for polygon 2148. These proposals were made recently by Jen Mallo and Chao Wu. Thanks. Salah lofl 11/4/2019, 2:59 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. oi^/inbox/i [External] Feedbackon working session on 10/30 Pinkal Pate! live in Pofygon 1186 and attended the Board of Education Work Session yesterday during which similarities and differences between the plans presented by Ms. Jen Mallo and Dr. Chao Wu were discussed. I wanted to draw your attention to a comment that Ms. Mallo made to Dr. Wu, while they were discussing moving polygons from Howard High School to reduce overcrowding. In particular, Ms. Mallo emphasized the importanceof not splitting neighborhoodsapart when discussingpolygons 1 300 and 300, whichare current feeders to Howard High School, Ms. Cutreneo also discussed the importance of neighbortiood continuity when addressing which polygons to keep at Oakland Mills High School. These particular comments drew my interest because Ms. Mallo's "test scenario" plan separates and divides Polygons 28 and 186 from the rest of our Pheasant Ridge community. Her plan disrupts the community even more than the Superintendent's plan, which cuts our Pheasant Ridge community in half by removing polygons 187, 1187, 188, and 1188, by sending the remaining polygons to a further middle school. Of particular concern is the separation of Pofygon 28, which is one of three well-connected polygons-1028, 28, 2028. These three contiguous polygons include homes close to the River Hill Village Center, bounded by Route 108, River Hill High School, the River Hill Village Center and GreatStar Drive. Removing Polygon 28 from Polygons 1 028 and 2028 arbitrarily splits apart homes on the southern portion of Indian Summer Drive from the rest ofthe community, based on nothing more than a crosswalk (see Figure 1 below). Ms. Mallo's plan breaks up our contiguous neighborhood in the same manner that Ms. Mallo and Ms. Cutreneo had discouraged when discussing polygons that currently feed to Howard High School and Oakland Mills High School. or note, polygons 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185are in dose proximityto Clarksville Elementary, Clarksvjlle Middle Sctiool, and River Hill High School (See Figure 2). Additionally, most of these homes are part of the Villaga of River Hill neighborhoodof PheasantRidge and are walkersto these schools. For reference, the main arteries of the neighborhoodare LindenLinthicum Lane, Indian Summer Drive, Fall Mcwn Ride, Great Star Drive (The portion of Great Star dosest to Route 108 and the River Hill Village Center), SouthWind Circle, Trotter Rd, and Route 108. The homeson and off ofthese roads have attended Clarksville Elementary School, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School for decades. Please maintain this long-establishedfeeder system, by keepingour polygons togetherattending River Hill community schools (1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185). Pleaseprioritize the importanceof contiguousneighbortioods at theircommunity schools in all future modificationsof the finalAttendance Area Adjustment. I would also like to convey strong support for Dr. Chao Wu's plan as a starting point for the Attendance Area Adjustment, as his plan addressesa reasonablereduction in FARM rateswhile still balandngutilizafion with minimal disruptionto communities, includingour community in River Hill. Thank you for your continued effort and support of all HCPSS students, Pinkal Patel Polygon 1186 Figure 1. 1028, 28, and 2028 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:511 https://outlook. ofSce. com/maiI/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/inbox/i 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:511 https://outlook. ofBce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Feedback on working session on 10/30 Jayesh Patel I live in Polygon 1186 and attended the Board of Education Work Session yesterday during which similarities and differences between the plans presented by Ms. Jen Mallo and Dr. Chao Wu were discussed. I wanted to draw your attention to a comment that Ms. Mallo made to Dr. Wu, while they were discussing moving polygons from Howard High School to reduce overcrowding. In particular, Ms. Mallo emphasized the importance of not splitting neighborhoods apart when discussing polygons 1300 and 300, which are current feeders to Howard High School. Ms. Cutreneo also discussed the importance of neighborhood continuity when addressing which polygons to keep at Oakland Mills High School. These particular comments drew my interest because Ms. Mallo's "test scenario" plan separates and divides Polygons 28 and 186 from the rest of our Pheasant Ridge community. Her plan disrupts the community even more than the Superintendent's plan, which cuts our Pheasant Ridge community in halfby removing polygons 187, 1187, 188, and 1188, by sending the remaining polygons to a further middle school. Of particular concern is the separation of Polygon 28, which is one of three well-connected polygons-1028, 28, 2028. These three contiguous polygons include homes close to the River Hill Village Center, bounded by Route 108, River Hill High School, the River Hill Village Center and Great Star Drive. Removing Polygon 28 from Polygons 1028 and 2028 arbitrarily splits apart homes on the southern portion of Indian Summer Drive from the rest ofthe community, based on nothing more than a crosswalk (see Figure 1 below). Ms. Mallo's plan breaks up our contiguous neighborhood in the same manner that Ms. Mallo and Ms. Cutreneo had discouraged when discussing polygons that currently feed to Howard High School and Oakland Mills High School. Of note, polygons 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185 are in dose proximity to Clarksville Elementary, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School (See Figure 2). Additionally, most of these homes are part of the Village of River Hill neighborhood of Pheasant Ridge and are walkers to these schools. For reference, the main arteries of the neighborhood are Linden Linthicum Lane, Indian Summer Drive, Fall Moon Ride, Great Star Drive (The portion of Great Star closest to Route 108 and the River Hill Village Center), South Wind Circle, Trotter Rd, and Route 108. The of 4 11/4/2019, 2:51 P https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink? homes on and off of these roads have attended Clarksville Elementary School, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School for decades. Please maintain this long-established feeder system, by keeping our polygons together attending River Hill community schools (1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185). Please prioritize the importance of contiguous neighborhoods at their community schools in all future modifications of the final Attendance Area Adjustment. I would also like to convey strong support for Dr. Chao Wu's plan as a starting point for the Attendance Area Adjustment, as his plan addresses a reasonable reduction in FARM rates while still balancing utilization with minimal disruption to communities, including our community in River Hill. Thank you for your continued effort and support of all HCPSS students. Jayesh Patel Polygon 1186 Figure 1. 1028, 28, and 2028 2of4 11/4/20)9, 2:51 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplmk'' Figure 2. 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187 1187 188,1188, 185, and 1185 3of4 11/4/2019, 2:51 F https://outlook. ofRce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' 4of4 11/4/2019, 2:51 F https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplmk^ [External] Feedback on Dr. Wu's Plan Pinkal Patel Dear Board of Education members, Thank you for your deliberate and thoughtful development of alternative Attendance Area Adjustment plans for hloward County students for the upcoming school year. I am writing to specifically support Board Member Dr. Chao Wu's proposed Attendance Area Adjustment plan as an ideal starting point for future work sessions. Overwhelming written and verbal testimony from residents throughout Howard county, as well as feedback from resident survey respondents, have clearly demonstrated that most residents prioritize maintaining contiguous communities, community stability and reducing overcrowding as primary factors to be addressed by any redistricting plan. Resident feedback over the past few months has also demonstrated that most residents also believe that the Board of Education should still attempt to reduce the high concentration of FARM numbers in specific schools and/or improve support of those community schools, but that Attendance Area Adjustment plans should only balance FARM numbers while still prioritizing overcrowding and community stability. Board Member Dr. Chao Wu's plan incorporates all of these important factors. His plan balances FARM numbers and reduces overcrowding as well as or better than other plans but with minimal impact to communities. The plan moves significantly less students compared to the Superintendent's plan and Board Member Jen Mallo's plan. Dr. Wu's plan places significantly less financial burden on an already strained HCPSS financial support system, which has already reduced funding for necessary programs in schools, such as technology and ancillary teacher support and is still likely to have to make further cuts. of 2 11/4/2019, 2:49 P https://outlook. of5ce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplmk? Please use Dr. Wu's plan as a starting point for future work sessions. Thank you, Name: Pinkal Patel Polygon #1186 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:49 t https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox. [External] Support for FS-N01from Liliia Shepelevych (Polygon 2087) Liliia Shepelevych Fm writing to support Feasibility Study Northeast Option #1 (FS-N01) which I consider the optimal plan for Howard High School according to Policy 6010. L agreewith the. idea ofmoving_our polygon 2087 to Oakland Mills HS! Please keep our polygons together with other Rockburn ES students and do not isolate us in a tir feed!! Best Regards, Liliia Shepelevych 5830 Blue Sky, Elkridge MD Polygon 2087 11/4/2019. 2:50 P: https://outIook. ofFice. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink'! [External] Feedback on Dr. Wu's Plan Jayesh Patel Dear Board of Education members, Thank you for your deliberate and thoughtful development of alternative Attendance Area Adjustment plans for Howard County students for the upcoming school year. I am writing to specifically support Board Member Dr. Chao Wu's proposed Attendance Area Adjustment plan as an ideal starting point for future work sessions. Overwhelming written and verbal testimony from residents throughout Howard county, as well as feedback from resident survey respondents, have clearly demonstrated that most residents prioritize maintaining contiguous communities, community stability and reducing overcrowding as primary factors to be addressed by any redistricting plan. Resident feedback over the past few months has also demonstrated that most residents also believe that the Board of Education should still attempt to reduce the high concentration of FARM numbers in specific schools and/or improve support of those community schools, but that Attendance Area Adjustment plans should only balance FARM numbers while still prioritizing overcrowding and community stability. Board Member Dr. Chao Wu's plan incorporates all of these important factors. His plan balances FARM numbers and reduces overcrowding as well as or better than other plans but with minimal impact to communities. The plan moves significantly less students compared to the Superintendent's plan and Board Member Jen Mallo's plan. Dr. Wu's plan places significantly less financial burden on an already strained HCPSS financial support system, which has already reduced funding for necessary programs in schools, such as technology and ancillary teacher support and is still likely to have to make further cuts. of 2 11/4/2019, 2:481 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deepl ink*; Please use Dr. Wu's plan as a starting point for future work sessions. Thank you, Name: Jayesh Patel Polygon #1186 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:48 Dear Board Members, I live in Polygon 2028 and attended the Board of Education Work Session yesterday during which similarities and differences between the plans presented by Ms. Jen Mallo and Dr. Chao Wu were discussed. I wanted to draw your attention to a comment that Ms. Mallo made to Dr. Wu, while you were discussing moving polygons from Howard High School to reduce overcrowding. In particular, Ms. Mallo emphasized the importance of not splitting neighborhoods apart when discussing polygons 1300 and 300, which are current feeders to Howard High School. Ms. Cutreneo also discussed the importance of neighborhood continuity when addressing which polygons to keep at Oakland Mills High School. These particular comments drew my interest because Ms. Mallo's "test scenario" plan separates and divides Polygons 28 and 186 from the rest of our Pheasant Ridge community. Her plan disrupts the community even more than the Superintendent's plan, which cuts our Pheasant Ridge community in half by removing polygons 187, 1187, 188, and 1188, by sending the remaining polygons to a further middle school. Of particular concern is the separation of Polygon 28, which is one of three well-connected polygons-1028, 28, 2028. These three contiguous polygons include homes close to the River hlill Village Center, bounded by Route 108, River Hill High School, the River Hill Village Center and Great Star Drive. Removing Polygon 28 from Polygons 1028 and 2028 arbitrarily splits apart homes on the southern portion of Indian Summer Drive from the rest of the community, based on nothing more than a crosswalk (see Figure 1 below). Ms. Mallo's plan breaks up our contiguous neighborhood in the same manner that Ms. Mallo and Ms. Cutreneo had discouraged when discussing polygons that currently feed to Howard High School and Oakland Mills High School. Of note, polygons 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185 are in close proximity to Clarksville Elementary, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School (See Figure 2). Additionally, most of these homes are part of the Village of River Hill neighborhood of Pheasant Ridge and are walkers to these schools. For reference, the main arteries of the neighborhood are Linden Linthicum Lane, Indian Summer Drive, Fall Moon Ride, Great Star Drive (The portion of Great Star closest to Route 108 and the River Hill Village Center), South Wind Circle, Trotter Rd, and Route 108. The homes on and off of these roads have attended Clarksville Elementary School, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School for decades. Please maintain this long-established feeder system, by keeping our polygons together attending River Hill community schools (1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185). Please prioritize the importance of contiguous neighborhoods at their community schools in all future modifications of the final Attendance Area Adjustment. I would also like to convey strong support for Dr. Chao Wu's plan as a starting point for the Attendance Area Adjustment, as his plan addresses a reasonable reduction in FARM rates while still balancing utilization with minimal disruption to communities, including our community in River Hill. Thank you for your continued effort and support of all HCPSS students. -Jianfang Wang Polygon 2028 Figure 1. 1028, 28, and 2028 Figure 2. 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187 188,1188, 185, and 1185 17<> Dear Board Members, I live in Polygon 2028 and attended the Board of Education Work Session yesterday during which similarities and differences between the plans presented by Ms. Jen Mallo and Dr. Chao Wu were discussed. I wanted to draw your attention to a comment that Ms. Mallo made to Dr. Wu, while you were discussing moving polygons from Howard High School to reduce overcrowding. In particular, Ms. Mallo emphasized the importance of not splitting neighborhoods apart when discussing polygons 1300 and 300, which are current feeders to Howard High School. Ms. Cutreneo also discussed the importance of neighborhood continuity when addressing which polygons to keep at Oakland Mills High School. These particular comments drew my interest because Ms. Mallo's "test scenario" plan separates and divides Polygons 28 and 186 from the rest of our Pheasant Ridge community. Her plan disrupts the community even more than the Superintendent's plan, which cuts our Pheasant Ridge community in half by removing polygons 187, 1187, 188, and 1188, by sending the remaining polygons to a further middle school. Of particular concern is the separation of Polygon 28, which is one of three well-connected polygons-1028, 28, 2028. These three contiguous polygons include homes close to the River Hill Village Center, bounded by Route 108, River Hill High School, the River Hill Village Center and Great Star Drive. Removing Polygon 28 from Polygons 1028 and 2028 arbitrarily splits apart homes on the southern portion of Indian Summer Drive from the rest of the community, based on nothing more than a crosswalk (see Figure 1 below). Ms. Mallo's plan breaks up our contiguous neighborhood in the same manner that Ms. Mallo and Ms. Cutreneo had discouraged when discussing polygons that currently feed to Howard High School and Oakland Mills High School. Of note, polygons 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185 are in close proximity to Clarksville Elementary, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School (See Figure 2). Additionally, most of these homes are part of the Village of River Hill neighborhood of Pheasant Ridge and are walkers to these schools. For reference, the main arteries of the neighborhood are Linden Linthicum Lane, Indian Summer Drive, Fall Moon Ride, Great Star Drive (The portion of Great Star closest to Route 108 and the River Hill Village Center), South Wind Circle, Trotter Rd, and Route 108. The homes on and off of these roads have attended Clarksville Elementary School, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill hligh School for decades. Please maintain this long-established feeder system, by keeping our polygons together attending River Hill community schools (1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185). Please prioritize the importance of contiguous neighborhoods at their community schools in all future modifications of the final Attendance Area Adjustment. I would also like to convey strong support for Dr. Chao Wu's plan as a starting point for the Attendance Area Adjustment, as his plan addresses a reasonable reduction in FARM rates while still balancing utilization with minimal disruption to communities, including our community in River Hill. Thank you for your continued effort and support of all HCPSS students. -Xuewu Cai Polygon 2028 Figure 1. 1028, 28, and 2028 Figure 2. 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185 In. https://outlook.office.coni/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' [External] Support for FS-N01 from Constantine Shepelevych (Polygon 2087) Constantine Shepelevych I'm writing to support Feasibility Study Northeast Option #1 (FS-N01) which I consider the optimal plan for Howard High School according to Policy 6010. I disagree with the idea of moving our polygon 2087 to Oakland Mills HS! Please keep our polygons together with other Rockburn ES students and do not isolate us in a tir feed!! Sincerely, Constantine Shepelevych 5830 Blue Sky, Elkridge MD Polygon 2087 I of I 11/4/2019. 2:42 P https://outlook.office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox/i< Fwd: [External] Feedback on Mallo/Wu Alternative Redistricting Plans for East Columbia Darla Slade Hi, I live in Polygon 52 and just reviewed the alternative plans that the Board of Education members created. I think Chao Wu's plan would be great for our community. Ideally, I'd love to keep Talbott Springs Elementary School together, including the Sewell's Orchard polygons (1059, 2059). However, know it is tough to please everyone. Jen Mallo's plan would further divide our community so I really hope that is not the way things will settle. The superintendent did not suggest moving any polygons aside from Sewell's Orchard out ofTalbott Springs Elementary either. Thanks for your time! Darla Slade Looking for fun stuff to do and fitness tips too? Check out FunFitnessFamily. com & sign up for our newsletter! Twitter: (Sfanfitnessfain instagrain:_@funfitnessfain Pinterest: FunFitnessFainily YouTube: FunFitnessFainily lof2 11/4/2019, 2:41 https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. oi^/inbox/i Facebook: funfitnessfainilx Active Adventures & Fitness Fun For Everyone! Looking for fun stuff to do and fitness tips too? Check out FunFitnessFaniiIv. coin & sign up for our newsletter! Twitter: ®funfitnessfain instagrann: (aifunfitnessfani Pinterest: FunFitnessFaniiIy YouTube: FunFitnessFamiIy Facebook: funfitnessfaniily Active Adventures & Fitness Fun For Everyone! 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:41 F https://outlook. o£Rce. coin/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deepIink' [External] Support for Dr. Wu's School Redistricting Plan Thomas Zagami I am a Howard County resident who has lived on Sheppard Lane for 20 years. After reviewing the different redistricting plans, I support Dr. Wu's plan. It is the most cost effective and it will achieve positive results with minimal adverse consequences. It is also the most practical plan. Thank you for your consideration. Tom Zagami Sent from my iPhone NOTICE:The information contained in this email and any attached documents may be confidential, legally privileged, or otherwise protected from disclosure. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipients). If the readerof this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. Thank you. I of 1 11/4/2019, 2:40 F https://outlook. office.com/mail/redisb-ictmg@hcpss. org/inbox/i [External] Polygon 111, 1111, 2111 Jessica Morrissey I am writing as concerned Howard County citizens about the impact that the proposed Superintendent's plan would have on our neighborhoodstudents. We live in a small Ellicott City community, with minimal student count (less than 50 middle and high school students), situated north of 108 and east of 29 (polygons 111, 1111, 2111). One entrance of the neighborhood exits to 108 and the other exits to 103 and 100. The new changes move our middle school from Dunloggin to Oakland Mills and high school to either Oakland Mills or it stays at Wilde Lake. Our concerns are the board is not considering the new Ellicott City courthouse buildings that are being constructed at the route 108 entrance to our neighborhood.This only impacts our polygons and will lead to a lot of congestion and delays usingthe 108 entrance. Building contractors and the neighborhood are so concerned that the 108 entrance is being redesigned to limit traffic and the 100/103 entrance will be utilized primarily moving forward. The new courthouse, along with our minimal student numbers, does not allow our neighborhood redistrirting to accomplish any of the stated goals by the Board, and negatively impacts two of them. Our neighborhoodagrees that continuousfeeds and equity are very important. To accomplishthis, we would like the AAC and HCPSS Board to consider moving polygons 111, 1111, 2111 to Northfield Elementary while maintainingour placement at Dunloggin Middle School and Wilde Lake High School.Along with helping reducethe overcrowdingat Thunderhill, this would achievea continuousfeed for our students while protecting their safety, social and emotional well-being of our older children and it will significantly decrease travel time during peak traffic by avoiding the entrance of our neighborhood that would involve the courthouse congestion. Goal 1, cost effective capacityutilization, is negatively impacted with the current plan. Both proposed changes significantly increase the time and distance the students commute and increase the risk of accidentsby busesand student drivers who would be required to cross and drive on multiple highways during rush hour including 29, 108 and 175. When the courthouse construction ramps up and is then fully functional, the bus route will need to use the route 100/103 exit to avoid serious congestion which will add considerable time to the commute. If our students are moved to Northfield and maintain their current schools, they will only take route 103 to Northfieldand Dunloggin and route 29 to Wilde Lake. Northfield and Dunloggin are 3. 5 miles away and Wilde Lake High is 5.7 miles away from our community. Oakland Mills is 7. 4 miles from our community but has almost twice the travel time due to traffic pattern. This may also require our students to board the buses earlier in the morning, which is a significant safety concern (especially during the winter months) since our community does not have sidewalks. With the current plan, capacity will not be impacted from our neighborhood but transportation costs will significantly increase. Goal 2, equity in the FARMS program, again, our student count is not significant enough to impact the numbers and our students are in Wilde Lake which has a high usage of FARMS.The redistricting would drastically change who our children go to school with and separates them completely from the children they interact with in the local community. One proposed plan has our students changing feeds every level so our children will not have a continuous feed, any stable friendships, and there are many studies that show changes such as these for middle and high schoolers can significantly impact the emotional well-being of the student. Our middle school and high school students have established relationships in lof2 11/4/2019, 2:40 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox/i their current schools and extracurricular activities that should be maintained. Goal 3, minimizing double moves for High School #13 seems to be an impossibility if we are redistricted now for middle and high school. Howard High School is the closest to our neighborhood (1. 7 miles away) and will be significantly impacted with High School The new redistricting plans for our neighborhood fall short on all three stated goals and negatively impacts two of them. It increases the risk to student safety and will negatively impact the emotional well- being of our students who will be attending schools with children they haven't grown up with. The student numbers are so small there is a high probability they will be put in a situation of not knowing any classmates, which can detrimentally affect the emotional stability of middle and high school students. We are pleading with you to please take these factors into consideration so that our children's safety and well-being aren't impacted from an unnecessary move and are in a continuous feed with their community by being moved to Northfield. Thank you for your time and consideration for the safety, community building, and longevity of polygons Ill, 1111, 2111. Jessica Morrissey 2of2 11/4/2019, 2:40 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox/ [External] Support for redistricting Ann Heinzer Thank you Ann Heinzer Ellicott City of 1 11/4/2019, 2:391 Dear BOE members, 1 live in polygon 1199. 1 strongly oppose to the superintendent's proposal based on my personal experience and research. would like to talk about two things. First of all. switching schools in adolescente negatively impacts their emotional and social well-being. We moved to different states almost every 2 or 3 yrs in the past and wheneverwe moved, my two kids had adapted very well. However, 2 years ago when we moved to howard county, we thought my kids would adjust in school very well as usual but unfortunately, that didn't happen. My younger one was in 4th grade at the time and she was ok, but my older one was in 7th grade and she had a very hard time adjusting in a new middle school. She always felt isolated and depressed in a new middle school. We realized that It was extremely hard and stressful for adolescents, like my older daughter, to switch schools because of social difficulties like mingling with new friends and facing academic challenges. According to research, which was published in american educational research in 2014, youth who switch schools are more likely to demonstrate negative behavioral and educational outcome. In the superintendent's proposal, nearly Vs of middle and high school students have to switch schools and it will impact negatively to them socially, academicaily, and mentally. My second point is academic gaps between schools. When we moved to howard county 2 years ago, we realized my kids were behind so we did two things to catch up with the other students. First, we tried tutoring service and I also started to supervise my kids more by helping them complete their homework. Switching schools and evening out the percent of farm students, do not improve academic gaps. Farm students need more practical systems, such as mentor programs or free tutoring service to improve their grades. Howard county can use the money wisely for farm students rather than the new school bus transportation systems. Please, BOE members, 1 of2 11/4/2019, 2:381 about:bl Don't underestimate kids stress, fear, anxiety, isolation from switching schools and come up with better and more practical solutions for farms students, instead of simply switching schools. I have been watching work sessions and Mallo's plan can move more than 3000 high school students whereas Wu 's plan can move 3000 students In total Includlna elementary, middle and high school. I strongly support Dr Wu's proposal which is a lot more reasonable and much less disruptive. Thank you very much. Best regards, Euna Kim 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:38 P https://outlook. o£Bce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink? [External] Polygons 20 and 1020 Dana La Rosa I am writing in opposition to Jen Mallo's plan for redistricting elementary schools in our county. Moving students from Polygons 20 and 1020 out of Bollman Bridge to Guilford ES, to swap them with students from Guilford (polygons 26, 27, 1026, and 1027) is unnecessary and detrimental to the BBES community. This swap simply moves studentsin both directions across Guilford Road, uprooting students and families with no explanation for the change. Due to traffic patterns in the area (taking into account 1-95 and MD-32), many students in these polygons might have to drive past their current school to get to Guilford Elementary. Under the current plan, BBES students would be pulled away from their peers, only to be brought back in middle school and high school. Bollman Bridge is a Title I school, and removing these polygons (which have fewer numbers of FARMS students) will not serve to create a more diverse learning environment, which believed to be one of the driving forces behind redistricting. The move of Polygons 20 and 1020 would severely cripple the PTA and volunteer pool at Bollman Bridge, cutting out most of the BBES PTA Executive Board and many involved families. Many of these families have been involved at BBES for several years, having had several students go through the school system, and have worked tirelessly to create a positive school culture that benefits all students. This move will also be detrimental to the students in the polygons mentioned above from Guilford, who will face the same issue with being removed from their current school and the relationships they have formed there. Bollman Bridge needs polygons 20 and 1020! Please do not follow through with this plan. BBES needs consistency in its student body and the support of the dedicated volunteers in this neighborhood to continue to be a wonderful school community. Sincerely, Dana La Rosa Bollman Bridge teacher and Guilford area resident 9450 Ridgeview Dr. Columbia 21046 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:38 F https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink? [External] Written Testimony concern for Polygon 2148 Neelima M We live in polygon 2148 and these comments are in respect to Jen Mallo's & Chu's proposed Middle school and Elementary school moves as posted on their facebook pages. The proposal splits the Dorsey's Search neighborhood by moving half of that neighborhood's polygons (148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148) from Northfield Elementary School (NES)and Dunloggin Middle School(DMS) to Running Brook Elementary School(RBES) and WildLake Middle School(WMS) respectively. This proposal would remove a significant portion of the more affordable housing that currently attends NES and DMS. In fact all of the town homes and condominiums in Dorsey Search are impacted while none of the single family homes at Dorsey's Search are changed. Our community has worked very hard in the last 8 years to make our community stronger and more walkable. It does not make sense to move kids who are 0. 7 miles away from school to schools which are about 5 miles away. We now have three safe areas for crossing Columbia road, which now means for many of the proposed polygons (especially 1148 and 2148) the DMS and NES are quite walkable taking about 10 minutes-even less time when hiking. There are actually 3 more schools Elementary schools that are closer to us than the one that was proposed. This was not in the any of the previous proposals and all of a sudden without giving enough time for us to voice our concerns was introduced with the aforementioned moves. This will be not but a punishment for the kids because they are living in this community. sincerely hope that you consider not to break this community and move them meaninglessly. Thank you for your consideration. Thanks, -Neelima . Kingscup Ct., Community. lofl 11/4/2019, 2:35 F https://outlook. ofEce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbo: [External] polygon 132 movement in Mallo and Wu plans Robin Black Wilson I am concerned about polygon 132 moving from Clemens Crossing Elementary to Bryant Woods Elementary in the Mallo and Wu redistricting plans. Polygon 132 currently attends CCESand is 3/4 mile from the school. Several times a week walk my daughter to school. We walk to school for evening activities and large school community events like field day. We are bussed because part of the walk is not safe for the children to do on their own but it is an excellent option for parents with their children. Some of the best time I have to connect with my daughter is on our walks to school. The exercise before school encourages a healthy lifestyle and helps her focus on learning during the long school day. CCES is currently 94. 2% utilization and will continue to be under-utilized in the Mallo Plan. The Mallo Plan will move my children to BWES which (under the plan) will have 105. 8% utilization. I can't understand a scenario in which we would intentionally move children to an over-utilized school. I am in search of the following information on the Wu and Mallo Plans: 1) The goals of their redistricting plans 2) Data about FARMS, race, and utilization projections if these plans go into effect (I believe these were the 3 big factors in the superintendents original plan and we had this data to go with that plan) 3) Information about potential changes with these plans once the new high school opens Thank you, Robin Wilson Polygon 132 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:34 P( htqps://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@1-icpss. org/deeplinl [External] Polygon 132 - Clemens Crossing Jeremy Dommu RE: Keep Polygon 132 at Clemens Crossing We are a new family to Howard County that just moved to the Sebring neighborhood of Clemens Crossing this summer from Washington DC, We are in polygon #132. While this neighborhood of approximately 15 elementary school aged children was not impacted by the Superintendent's plan, under the recently released Gallo plan (and possibly the Wu plan - more on that below), these students would be redistricted from Clemens' Crossing (less than one mile away and easily walkable on neighborhood streets and CA pathways) to Bryant Woods - 2. 5 miles away and on the other side of two major Columbia thruways - Broken Land Parkway and Little Patuxent Parkway. Moving our polygon would disturb our community and isolate us from our neighborhood. A have several questions and observations regarding the plan. First, we don't understand what moving such a small number of students to a much further school and completely different neighborhood does to achieve the overall goals of the redistricting plan. These handful of students would be the only Clemens Crossing Students moved to Bryant Woods - meaning they would enter a new school hardly knowing any peers. How could moving so few children accomplish any of the goals of diversity and utilization that the redistricting plan is attempting to solve? Why move them at all? Second, it is difficult to find information about the proposals currently be presented. Specifically, there seems to be conflicting information about whether or not Dr. Wu's proposal would impact us or not. The map of Dr. Wu's plan that is posted with the meeting materials of the 10/30 working group meeting shows polygon 132 staying at CCES. See: https://go. boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board. nsf/files/BHFUXX7E2F53/$file /10%2030%202019%20Wu%20ES. pdf However, the table posted to Dr. Wu's personal website lists us as moving to Bryant Woods. See: https://chaowu.org/. The superintendent's plan was based on a nearly year long process backed by significant analysis, supporting data and opportunity for public feedback - both written and via many in-person community meetings, but it seems like not only are these new proposals being made without a similar level of consideration, but it is also not even certain on what exactly is being proposed. We feel like the rug is being pulled out from under us! Students and families impacted by the superintendent's plans had months to mobilize and spearhead a coordinated campaign to ensure their voices were heard. Now, here we are weeks away from a final vote and a last minute proposal and there appears to be a lack of transparency in what alternatives are being proposed and which polygons would be impacted. 1 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:33 P( https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink Finally and personally, the primary driver of our decision to move to HoCo wasto ensure a stable consistent andexcellent education for our children after manyyears ofattempting to navigate the public school maze in Washington DC. We strongly value diversity, inclusion, and stability and accordingly, narrowed down our home search to focus on the Clemens Crossing elementary school area as it is known to be a tight-knit, inclusive and diverse school that iswell loved andwith a strong sense ofcommunity and pride. Thisseems likethe type of school thatthe redistricting effort isaiming to foster. It is heartbreaking for ourfamily to considerthat ourdaughter would haveto move schools againafter just one year in the neighborhood and all the efforts we have placed to become acclimate to our new school. house, and community. Please keep our students where they are. Keep Polygon 132 at CCES. Thank you, Sarah and Jeremy Dommu 6118 Covington Road 11/4/2019, 2:33 Pl https://outtook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinl [External] Polygon 108 Dan B. I just want to say thank you for putting our polygon back into Hollifield Station with your latest plan! Our direct community (1108 and 108) is a very close knight community (as I'm sure you saw by the numerous Facebook posts responding to your original plan) and we did not want to be separated as your original plan had it. The bus ride across 29 and 40 to Northfield was a big concern for me when it comes to safety, logistics and time. I felt being moved out of our current district across townjust didn't make much sense and that the movement of the polygonsof 1308, 105 and 1105 to Veterans in your current plan is a better choice, as they are right next to that district. The area east of 29 and North of 40 seems to me the most logical grouping based on location for Hollifield Station which your current proposal now illustrates. I understand this entire process is difficult and takes a lot of thought and time so I really appreciate your openness for taking feedback like mine and my neighbors. Again, I thank you for putting us back with our community and I strongly plead with you to keep it that way moving forward. Sincerely, Dan Britt 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:33 Pl| https://outlook. office,com/mail/redisti-icting@hcpss. org/deeplinl [External] Strongly support Dr. Wu's Redistricting Plan Sun Thank you Van Sun (polygon 186) of 11/4/2019, 2:32 P| https://outlook. ofGce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Redistricting feedback Lisa Reed Thank you for all of your hard work on the issue of redistricting. I would like to offer two opinions from the 1056 polygon (Allview neighborhood). I am focusing only on high school, asthat impacts my family at this time. These are in response to the plans set forth by Ms. Mallo and Dr. Wu earlier this week. 1. Please leave the -56 (56, 1056, 2056 and 3056) polygons at Oakland Mills High School. There is a long tradition of those schools being at Oakland Mills, and we are very much a part of the OMHS community. Also, I believe that the -56 polygons decrease the overall FARMS rate at OMHS, which I also believe should be a goal as OMHS has very high FARMS percentage compared with other high schools. These 4 polygons are also a small number of children - we look big on a map because we have big yards, but the number of children is small per grade level; I would guess between about 6 and 16. While I do not want to speak for all of my neighbors, we love OMHS. Please leave us there. 2. For all moves, I am so pleased that the Board decided to exempt risingjuniors. This is important for the social well-being of these children. I believe that it is equally important for rising sophomores. These children - the class of 2023 - are currently freshmen and arejust getting used to a new school. Removing them from a place that is becoming familiar - where they are making new friends and learning who their guidance counselors are, where they are becoming a part of the field hockey team and getting a role in the school play - is unacceptable for supporting the emotional and social well-being of these students. Once a student has begun at a high school, they should be allowed to finish there. Asking rising sophomores to be redistricted will mean three schools in three years for these children at a crucial time in their adolescent development. To mitigate cost, rising sophomores could be asked to provide their own transportation if they remain at the high school where they were freshmen. While this would be a hardship for our family, we would make it work to provide stability for our child. I ask that the Board of Education allow rising sophomores the same exemption of rising juniors and seniors and that they be allowed to stay at the school where they began their freshman year. Finally, moving the -56 polygons from OMHS to AHS next year means moving 1 of2 11/4/2019, 2:31 P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink about 15 rising sophomores. And while they are lovely children, they are not all best friends. They have made other friends at OMMS and OMHS because the county took them as a small feed from AES to OMMS. Please allow them to finish their high school career at OMHS. Go Scorps, Lisa Reed Polygon 1056 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:31 P https://outIook.ofRce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' [External] Latest Redistricting Proposals Ruth Utz After reviewing some of the recent plans that have been submitted wanted to encourage the Board to put back together the community along Scaggsville Road (which was split up about six years ago during middle school redistricting). Currently, Polygons 221, 1221, 2221, 1007 and 7 go from Fulton ESto Hammond MSto Reservoir MS. In some of the proposed plans, Polygons 1221, 2221 and 1007 are moved to Hammond ES. This creates more small feeds, further splinters our community connected by Scaggsville Road south of Rt 216, isolates these students even more AND could cause problems for the Hammond ES/MS area once the milk plant is developed. Additionally, Polygon 7 becomes an island. Also in the latest proposal, there are two polygons (297, 1297) that are further east and currently attend Murray Hill MS that are proposed to skip over Polygons 221, 1221, 2221, 1007 and 7 and go to Lime Kiln MS. To remedy these issues, I would ask that the Board consider fixing the community split that occurred those years ago by using the capacity that is available at Lime Kiln MS to take in 221, 1221, 2221, 1007 and 7 (less than 100 students). This would greatly strengthen the feed from Fulton ESto Lime Kiln MS (by eliminating the small feed from Fulton ESto Hammond MS) and also from Lime Kiln MS to Reservoir MS. Polygons 9 and 1009 currently attend Hammond ES-Hammond MS-Reservoir HS, The Board could, if they so choose, move those students (who are across Rt 216 from the other listed polygons, less than 50 students in total) to Atholton HS to eliminate the Hammond MS- Reservoir his feed completely. This plan would also create some capacity in Hammond MS which could allow a further shift of students west (as virtually all the development is in the East/Rt 1 corridor), or could remain flexible for when the massive milk plant (which would be walkers to Hammond ESand Hammond MS) is developed in a couple short years. The polygons from Murray Hill MS could also go to Hammond MS if the Board is trying to open capacitythere. (There was a big concern last evening about 430 units in Long Reach district filling up a lot of the capacity that will be created and needing to account for that. I would ask that the Board give this same consideration to the milk plant (397 units) which will be coming on line and affecting Hammond ES/Hammond MS shortly.) This would not be a huge move of students but it would bring the community back together and do a great deal to strengthen those feeds. Thank you for taking these proposals into consideration. of 2 11/4/2019, 2:31 F https://outlook.ofRce.coin/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' Ruth Utz 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:31 F https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] 159/1159 ES and MS Mallo and Wu plans Brian Edwards In order to keep us walkers/bikers to ESand walkers to HS, please leave our Polygons where they are. It makes more sense to move folks whotravel from further awayfrom St Johns Lane and Patapsco schools. It also does not make sense for our small feed to go from Burleigh Manor to Mt. Hebron. Meanwhile the rest of our neighborhood is left alone. Also there is a possible new community being built called Bethany Glen which may now be part of 159. I recommend assigning a new Polygon number to that neighborhood. It will be high-density housing and separate from ValleyMede. They should be moved as they are on the corner of Bethany Lane and Rt. 99. Thanks! lofl 11/4/2019, 2:30 P: https://outlook.office. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/inbox/- [External] Elkridge community Geoff Pickett I 1 attachments (708 KB) Elkridge polygons should be grouped together. docx; Dear BOE, Thank you for all of your work. I'm sure all of you would candidly admit that this is more work than you imagined when you ran for positions and as a parent I am appreciative of that. I live in Elkridge. I've been here since 2010. Our community has ballooned since then and continues to grow because as you knowthe current APFOdoes little to slow down building. In a perfect world, where we build schools based on where kids lived, we would be working backwardsand deciding on howto fill a high school in Elkridge. It would be an easy process and it would've created a 100% feed from ELMS to Troy Hill and there would be minor movements elsewhere. But since we chose a school in Mission Road, this process is exponentially more difficult and you are trying to make tough decisions in order to balancethings out like where do my kids go when Long Reach is 6. 2 miles away and Howard is 6. 0 miles away. I would imagine this is comparable to same problem that exists when a previous BOEchose Long Reach, a mere 2 miles awayfrom Oakland Mills, instead of Elkridge. Choosing bad locations for high schools has implications for decades. Since you are now in a process of picking what polygon goes where, I've attached a map of the Elkridge route 1 area from 100 to the county line. I will not tell you who should go where but I've circled polygons that should stay together. It's your job to pick who goes where. Please see attached. Geoff Pickett 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:29 F J (J 10M about:bl October 31, 2019 Dear Howard County Board of Education Thank you for reading the written testimony from the community. We are listening to the working sessions and I'm glad our voices are being heard. In last night's session (Oct 30}, [ heard Jen Malio reference "natural boundaries" several times as the logic and rationale behind her grouping of various polygons together in the Columbia area. She was referring to Rt 29 in particular as that boundary. With that in mind, I wanted to ensure that the Board understands there is a very large natural boundary that bordersWoodmark (circa 1973) to the south. Woodmarkincludes polygons 181, ISO, and 1180. To the south is the Central Maryland Research and Education Center (CMREC) whichspans 925 acresand nextto that is the Franciscan Friar/that takes up significantacreage as well. I believethis is the polygon of 1181. There are no students there. This large natural boundary south of us has led our community to align more closety with those north of us, In polygons 3182, 274 and 2182, which Is also near where our current and proposed elementary and middle schools reside. The current proposal under Ms. Mallo's test scenario - to send all of Woodmark to Wilde Lake High School - across this natural boundary and over Route 108 into the heart of Columbia, does not make sense to me. Additionally, we have 9 low feed issue associated with this plan (at 12%, below policy 6010 requirements) but that point has already been made. My recommendation is to keep Woodmarktogether, avoid the low feed issue, and send the students to Glenelg High School. I appreciate your consideration of our natural boundary issue, as you consider all alternatives openly and consistently. Rachel Walter Wilde Lake High School Graduate. 1986 Polygon 180 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:271 https://outlook,office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] Redistricting Mark Weaver Thank you_fpr all of your hard work on the intractable issue of redistricting. I would like to offer two opinions from the 2056 polygon (Allview neighborhood). I am focusing only on high school. These are in response to the plans set forth by Ms. Mallo and Dr. Wu earlier this week. 1. Please leavethe -56 (56, 1056, 2056and 3056) polygons at Oakland Mills High School. There is a long tradition of those schools being at Oakland Mills, and we are very much a part of the OMHS community. Also,~l believe that the -56 polygons decrease the overall FARMS rate at OMHS, which I also believe should be a goal as OMHS has very high FARMS percentage compared with other high schools. These 4 polygons are also a small numberof children - we look big on a map becausewe have big yards, but the numberof children is small per grade level; I would guess between about 6 and 16. While I do not want to speak for all of my neighbors, we love OMHS. Please leave us there. 2. For all moves, I am so pleased that the Board decided to exempt risingjuniors. This is important for the social well-beingof these children. I believethat it is equally importantfor rising sophomores. These children the class of 2023 - are currently freshmen and arejust getting used to a new school. Removing them from a placethat is becomingfamiliar - wherethey are making newfriends and learningwho their guidance counselors are, wherethey are becoming a part ofthe soccerteam and getting a role in the"school play and musical - is unacceptable for supporting the emotional and social well-being of these students. Once a'student has begun at a highschool, they should be allowedto finishthere. Asking rising sophomoresto be redistricted will mean three schools in three years forthese children at a crucial time in thefradolescent development. To mitigate cost, rising sophomores could be asked to provide their own transportation if they remain at the high school where they were freshmen. While this would be a hardship for my family, we would make it work to provide stability for my children. I am a single parent and having two children at different schools - one will be a senior and the other a sophomore next year - will put a great burden on me. I ask that the Board of Education allow rising sophomores the same exemption of rising juniors and seniors and that they be allowed to stay at the school where they began their freshman year. Finally, moving the -56 polygons from OMHSto AHS nextyear means moving about 15 rising sophomores. And while they are lovely children, they are not all best friends. They have made other friends at OMMS and OMHS because the county took them as a small feed from AES to OMMS. Please allow them to finish their high school career at OMHS. Mark Weaver Polygon 2056 1 of] 11/4/2019, 2:27 F https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox [External] Opposition to Jen Mallo's plan/Support for Chao Wu Jen Macomber In speaking with our school staff members, this move would also take a large group of high scoring students out of our GT classes, affecting the school's test scores. While one of our school's goals is to raise math scores overall, this plan would take half the kids out of our GT math classes and many out of above level classes at each grade. While our polygons appear to border Guilford on the map, they do not in reality because of 32 and we would have to drive PAST Bollman to go to Guilford, which makes no sense. It fixes no needs and disrupts our existing feed to PatuxentValley and Hammond. Our children would be pulled from their peers only to be brought back this wayfor MS, while the same happens to current Guilford students. It is also detrimental to the students in the polygons mentioned above from Guilford. They are immediately beside Mission Road where the new HS will be built. It does not make sense to. move them now only to have them move back in a few years. Bollman Bridge needs polygons 20 and 1020 and we need to stay!!! Please do not follow through with the awful, poorly thought out plan. My family has been a part of the BBES community for seven years and I have spent countless hours working to help our school. We would be devastated to be moved and our school would be as well. I support Chao Wu's plan for redistricting as it moves the least number of students. Students need to be moved from overcrowded schools, but swapping children all over the county is NOT necessary. It breaks up communities, disrupts the learning of students who have been working with staff for many years, puts students who have accommodations already set as a disadvantage when they are placed in an unknown environment, and tears down the hard work of parent communities who spend countless hours trying to make their school the best it can be. Please do not swap out our students like they are pawns!!!! Sincerely, lof2 11/4/2019, 2:26 P] https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox/i Jennifer Macomber PTA President, Bollman Bridge ES Sent from my iPhone 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:26 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/inbox. [External] Polygon 1007 Heather Loman hHeather Loman of 1 11/4/2019, 2:26 P< https://outlook. ofBce. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/inbox/ [External] Comments againstthe proposal of school redistricting hlu, Shien {amcurrently a resident in Dorsey Hall, Polygon 2148. Mytwo kidsare attending Northfield Elementary School. It isa surprisefor me to learn the latest proposal (10/30/2019) ofschoofredistrict from Ms. Mallo and Mr. Wu. It DOESNOT MAKE ANY SENSE to me to switch the elementary school for the children in Dorsey Hall from Northfield to Running Brook. My reasons are as below. 1. As I know, the Northfield elementary school is not over-populated. Probably, that's whythis school zone remains the same on previous proposals. T °ute 108 between lR Dorsey Hall and Running Brook is a major street with 6 lanes and heavy traffic. It makes walking to school impossible for the young kids, not only for school days, but for weekend activities as well. It will increase commute time significantly. just cannotsee enough reasonfor the kidsto switchthe elementary school, whichis a drasticchange leaving current teachers, classmates/friends, music bands and sports teams. Best, Shien Hu lofl 11/4/2019, 2:26 P. https://outlook.office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink? [External] Polygons 159/1159 recommendation Karen Capelle My name is Karen Capelle and I am the parent of an elementary school student at SJLES. My son will also be starting kindergarten next year. I have reviewed your most recent plan and remain greatly concerned with your plans to move our children outside of their well-established neighborhood. Your plan moves our children to Manor Woods ES, which is significantly further from our neighborhood and down busier streets with more dangerous intersections. Safety and community have been my greatest concern throughout this process. There is a way to accomplish the goal of alleviating overcrowding in our area while keeping our community together and putting another BACK together: Keep 159 and 1159 in the ValleyMede Community together at SJLES Move polygons 161 and 1161 to Waverly ES in order to assist with bringing this community back together. (I have also heard from some In the 1 162 area that they would prefer to go to Mount View MS due to small feeds for them into Patapsco.) Also, please consider the fact that development in Turf Valley is moving along at a fast pace now. In fact, we had family members just move there this past spring and have seen a large number of units go up in a very short period of time with a large number of students moving in. Turf Valley is going to need great consideration in the near future (if not now) and these NEW residents should be sent west to Manor Woods. In fact, it is dear that polygon 304 should be moved with the restof Turf Valley to Manor Woods. In the future, I will continue to argue that well established communities, like ours, with students who have established themselves in the local community schools should NEVER be moved (unless absolutely necessary) due to new development. New students and their parents will start out somewhere new no matter where they go and therefore should not be allowed to essentially kick us out of our current community schools. I appreciate your willingness to accept feedback as this process moves along and hope you will consider the above in making your decision. As noted above, communities can be maintained and even put back together in a win-win situation with these suggestions. Furthermore, I encourage each of you to please consider driving through our neighborhood to seejust where these polygon lines are and to get a feel for just how much this will split our community in half. Please feel free to contact me at this e-mail address with anyadditional questions or informationyou maywant about our community in general. Thank you, Karen Capelle Polygon 159 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:25 https://outlook. ofRce. com/maiVredistricting@hcpss. org/inbox, [External] Comments against the proposal of school redistricting Hu, Shien [am curre"tly a resident in Dorsey Hall, Polygon 2148. Mytwo kidsare attending Northfield Elementary School. It isa surprisefor me to learnthe latest proposal (10/30/2019) ofschoofredistrict from Ms. Mallo and Mr. Wu. It DOESNOT MAKE ANY SENSE to me to switch the elementary school forthe children in Dorsey Hall from Northfield to Running Brook. My reasons are as below. 1. As I know, the Northfield elementary school is not over-populated. Probably, that's whythis school zone remains the same on previous proposals. 2. The Route 108between DorseyHall and RunningBrook is a majorstreet with6 lanesand heavy traffic. It makes walking to school impossible for the young kids, not only for school days, but for weekend activities as well. It will increase commute time significantly. just cannotsee enough reason for the kidsto switchthe elementary school, whichis a drasticchange leaving current teachers, dassmates/friends, music bands and sports teams. Best, Shien Hu 11/4/2019. 2:25 P: https://outIook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] Polygon 1095, Montgomery Meadows Redistricting Proposal Julie McMillin This email is in response to the redistricting proposal that impacts polygon 1095 along with others within the Montgomery Meadows subdivision (95, 301, 1301, 2095, and 1095). I'm sure the process of redistricting is not an easy one, especially being that so many families within Howard county are potentially affected. I do have concerns though about splitting the Montgomery Meadows subdivision in that there is currently a proposal suggestingthat these polygons move from llchester Elementary to Waterloo. From what I understand and have researched this is in violation of code 6010. llchester Elementary as well as Bonnie Branch Middle Schools are very tight knit communities that serve families in a very close vicinity. Also, one of the problems we are looking to solve is overcrowding of our schools, llchesteris not overcrowded, therefore relocating these children to another school isn't necessary. Moving these children is not the best decision for them and beingthat it is a small feed it doesn't seem to help the overall population and situation we are trying to solve. Again, I understand that redistricting is a challenging process and no matter what, some children will have to be uprooted to another school. Being that our neighborhood is the only one though that hasto leave llchester is extremely concerning, especially given the lack of positive impact it will have overall. implore you to reconsider this move for Montgomery Meadows. Sincerely, Julie Lee of 1 11/4/2019, 2:24 F https://outlook. ofHce. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/deeplink'? [External] Polygon 2148: Dunloggin Middle School to Wilde Lake Middle School Sunmy Brown Earlier today, I emailed stating I was AGAINST Dr. Wu's proposed plan to transfer Polygon 2148 from Dunloggin Middle School to Wilde Lake Middle School. I didn't realize that Ms. Mallo was also making the same recommendations as Dr. Wu, redistricting Polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 in the Dorsey Search Community from Dunloggin Middle School to Wilde Lake Middle School. Thus, I am writing once again, OPPOSING BOTH Dr. Wu and Ms. Mallo's recommendations. Again, I implore each board member to review Policy 601 0, specifically relating to Community Stability. Currently, the proposed polygons for transfer out of the Dorsey Search Community is less than 15% of the receiving school. In addition, Polygon 2148 is less than . 7 miles away, within walking and hiking distance from Dunloggin Middle School. The recommendations made by Dr. Wu and Ms. Mallo will fracture the Dorsey Search Community, breaking apart contiguous communities and neighborhoods, weakening school feeds. Please keep Polygon 2148 at Dunloggin Middle School. Regards, Sunmy Brown Polygon 2148 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:24 F https ://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss . org/deeplinl [External] Opposition to move 2148 Yao, Qin of 1 11/4/2019, 2:22 PI1 https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' [External] llchester ES changes - Polygons 95/84/1095/2095/301/1301 Joanna Thankyou for the hard workyou all put in to the difficulttask of redistricting. After reviewing Jen Mallo's and Chao Wu's revised proposals, I would urge you to please reconsider moving several llchester polygons (84, 95, 1095, 2095, 301 & 1301) to Waterloo Elementary. Ms. Mallo's plan suggesting the swap of these polygons for polygon 76 breaks up the contiguous llchester community and divides the Montgomery Meadows neighborhood in order to connect to a polygon on the opposite side of a highway(rt 100). It creates small feeds for both neighborhoods. Most Waterloo students aren't zoned for Bonnie Branch, and fewer still for Howard. So kids in these llchester polygons will leave most of their classmates behind now only to rejoin the llchester community when they go to middle school at Bonnie Branch. Meanwhile, polygon 76 would be the only kids at llchester not going to Bonnie Branch, a school that sits on the same campus. Theywould go instead to Mayfield Woodswith many kids from Waterloo. While I appreciate that Mr Wu's revised plan appears to try to keep Montgomery Meadows together by adding 84 to the group moving to Waterloo, he keeps 301/1301 (Crystal springs) at llchester, which still splits up our community and makes the feed for Montgomery Meadows smaller. It appears that his plan keeps polygon 76 at Waterloo, which is confusing because I had assumed the reason our community was being madeto move wasto add a higher Farms polygon into llchester to create balance. If that's not the case then I don't see a clear reason for the move. Since both schools are excellent (Waterloo is award winning) I don't feel that either plan makes a tangible difference equity. It seems these moves only slightly shift numbers on paper and that is not a good enough reason to disrupt kids' lives and create tiny feeds where strong feeds exist. Waterloo is a great school and all kids would receive a stellar education there. But llchester is a tight knit community in which my daughter has flourished and I can't discount this fact in my assessment of these proposed changes. Leaving will mean leaving the majority of my daughter's friends, her Girl Scout troop, and all of the amazing teachers that have made her transition to school a success. What is the point in separating our kids from their elementary friends now and then separating them from their new WESfriends when they rejoin the BBMS/HoHSfeed? Please keep the llchester ES polygons in our neighborhood school. Sincerely, of 2 11/4/2019, 2:21 P https://outlook. o£Rce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink'? Joanna Zeisser Polygon 95 2of2 11/4/2019, 2:2] F October 30, 2019 Dear Board Members, Thank you for serving on the Board of Education. We value your commitment and your support for the education of Howard County children. I am a resident of Polygon 127 and am writing to express concern regarding Board Member Mallo's test scenarios that would redistrict Polygon 127 for a second time since the 2018-2019 school year, this time from PRES-CMS-AHS to PRES-WLMS-AHS. I also would encourage the Board to explore Board Member Wu's test scenarios as they appear to address several goals of the Board while still preparing the County for the inclusion of High School #13. My specific concerns with Board Member Mallo's test scenarios are: . The scenarios would undo the successful 2017 redistricting tt?at fixed the small feed problem for Polygon 127: In 2017, our polygon was redistrjcted from Clemens Crossing ES and Lime Kiln MS to Pointers Run ES and Clarkesville MS (took effect for the 2018-2019 school year). Our neighborhood understood the reason behind the Board's decision to redistrict our community and overwhelmingly supported the move to PRES-CMS to fix the small feed that existed at the time. In Board Member Malta's scenarios, our polygon would again be placed in a small feed. I oppose Board Member Mallo's scenarios and suppon keeping Polygon 127 with its current large feed of PRES-CMS for elementary and middle school. Also, she has us aligned with polygon 126 - which has redacted data which suggests less than 5 students at each level. By attaching us to polygon 126 contiguously, it makes us look like a large mass of land. But we remain a small feed. . Four schools in four years is untenable and directly violates Policy 6010: Current sixth graders in Polygon 127 would be expected to attend four schools in as many years under Board Member Malta's approach: o 4th grade at Clemens Crossing ES (CCES) o 5th grade at Pointers Run ES(PRES) o 6th grade at Clarksville MS (CMS) o 7th grade at Wilde Lake MS (WLMS) Therefore, Board Member Mallo's approach would violate the goals of Policy 6010 (IV. B. 2. ), which states the Board will make "every attempt to not move a student more than once at any school level or the same student more frequently than once every five years. " This policy is important to our neighborhood because in the 2018-2019 school year we experienced firsthand the impact and challenges redistricting presents as our children worked to adjust to new academic environments and friend groups after the last redistricting decision. For these same children to endure another redistricting just a few years later places an extreme burden on them. . Moving our polygon again negatively impacts stability now and in the future: Moving our children yet again to a new middle school just two years after the last redistricting for our neighborhood would be harmful to stability and to the community our children have now built at PRES-CMS. Further, moving our community to WLMS does not support long term stability in light of the current and future development near Downtown Columbia and to the east. As a result of that growth, it's reasonable to conceive that ourpolygon could be subject to additional redistricting in the near future if we are moved to WLMS now. All plans and scenarios to date (except for Board Member Mallo's plan) recognize these factors and have maintained our current feed of PRES-CMS. In contrast to our concerns regarding Board Member Mallo's scenarios, Board Member Wu's scenario appears to take a holistic and long-term approach to redistricting and should be further explored, including his testing scenario that would keep Polygon 127 districted to PRES-CMS-AHS. Likewise, the Superintendent's proposal (moves Polygon 127 from AHS to PRES-CMS-River Hill HS) is also an approach that could support long term stability for our polygon. It is important to note that the stability I mention for these two plans only exists if ALL of the changes included in those plans are also made. Singular changes to the Superintendent's plan or to Board Member Wu's scenarios would jeopardize the stability the plans are designed to enable and could potentially exacerbate the overall problems the Board aims to solve. We have always taken a reasonable approach to redistricting and thank you for the consideration of our concerns. We will continue to pay close attention during the Board meetings and will provide updated feedback as new considerations arise or additional concerns are identified. We implore you to remember Polygon 127's recent redistricting in the 2018-2019 school year, ask that you avoid small feeds and maintain contiguous stable feeds for Polygon 127. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Ann Finneran Polygon 127 https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink'; [External] Issues related to redistricting Bijal Patel ! request that you please consider the following points: The primary goal for the 2020 redistricting is to reduce crowding in several schools. With a utilization rate of 95 percent and 94 percent respectively, FRES and PVMS are not currently overcrowded, so why redistrict? The current FARMS rate at FRES is around 30 percent ?nd PVMS is 40 percent. With the other proposed moves, the rate could see an increase after moving polygons 48, 12, and 2046. FRES is a model of diversity across Howard County. It has the perfect combination .of cultural, racial and socio-economic diversity within our school. Our polygons are in the impact area for HS#13, why disrupt the lives of our communities now when some of these same kids will need to move again by the time the high school opens? With HS#13 opening in 2023, we have the unique opportunity to be a true feeder system. Children from polygons attending FRES and PVMS could potentially have a continuous feed from elementary to high school. With HS#13 opening in 2023, current 6th graders in Polygons 12, 46 and 2046 proposed to move under Chao Wu's plan, could potentially see FOUR different school transitions - from FRES to PVMS to MHMS to Reservoir to HS #13! The Kings Woods neighborhood comprises polygons 46, 1046 and 3046. Moving 46 means you are moving the smallest portion or about 1/3 or less of an established, cohesive neighborhood out of FRES and PVMS. The Kings Woods community has been assigned to FRES since it opened in 1992.. Reservoir High School comprises feeds from Hammond Middle, Lime Kiln Middle, Murray Hill Middle and Patuxent Valley Middle. At 13 percent, the PVMS feed to Reservoir High School has always been one of the smallest feeds among the middle schools attending. Moving 46, 2046 and 12 from PVMS to MHMS leaves a very small feed from PVMS continuing on to Reservoir. Polygons 46, 2046, 12 and several others were among those redistricted in 2012 from MHMS to PVMS to fill Thomas Viaduct Middle, and Dr. Wu's proposal moves these same polygons back to MHMS seven years later. Regards, Bijal Patel 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:201 https://outlook. office, com/mai l/redistricting@hcpss. org/deep 1 ink's [External] Polygon 1171: Request to reconsider Ben Assavakarint I am a resident in Polygon 1171 and am writing to oppose the latest suggested move being considered by the BOE to move polygon 1171 from Mam'ottsRidge HS to Glenelg HS. The main reason is because this will make polygon 1171 an island community since most of the surrounding polygons attend either Mamotts Ridge, River Hill HS, or Centennial HS. I very appreciate if you could provide the reasoning for this proposed move as Polygon 1171 was not proposed to be moved in either the Feasibility Report nor the Superintendent's proposal. I especially request time to allow us to review the proposedjustifications so we can express our opinion in a transparentway as promised by the BOE. Thank you for your time to read my request and for your consideration. Parents of Polygon 1171 I of I 11/4/2019, 2:20 P https://outlook. ofRce. com/maiVredistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinl [External] redistricting Harry Hsieh We are residents of Howard County. I just want you to know that we strongly support Dr. Wu's plan because it disrupts the lives of the least amount of students. It is also the most cost effective, so money can be saved to improve the schools themselves. Thank you. Harry Hsieh 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:19 Pl] October 31, 2019 Dear Board of Education, I do not envy the task you have before you, and I thank you for the time and effort you put into hearing community feedbackand makingthese tough decisions. Having a daughter in polygon 7 who is currently zoned to an overcrowded school, I have been following the redistricting plans sincethe summer. In both the feasibilitystudy recommendations andthe superintendent's proposal, this polygon was not affected. However, more plans came out in the Board of Ed meeting this week involving changes to polygons that weren't affected before, which was surprising consideringthe chancesto provide feedback is now limited to written testimony. In Ms. Mallo s proposal, it appears that in order to alleviate crowding at Fulton Elementary she decided to move polygons 1007and 7 instead ofthe Maple Lawnpolygons outlined in the superintendent's proposal. However, instead of it just affecting the elementary school level (as it did for Maple Lawn), the impact is greater, changing both our elementary school and middle school. Furt:hermore, the distance from our polygons to Murry Hill, hersuggested middle school, is more than twice asfar asthe currently districted school, Hammond Middle. It seems like the change was simply to put the burden on a differentset ofstudents, for both plans require studentsto travel significantlyfurther than theydo now at one level (elementary or middle). Forthose of us in 7 and 1007, the burden is higher in that students already have a longer travel time for elementary school, and Laurel Woods isjust asfar as Fulton. Unfortunately, moving our polygon to Laurel Woods and keeping Hammond Middle would also be problematic, as it would then create a very small feederof students goingfrom LWESto HMS. Overall, I feel like many of the redistricting plans make a lotof assumptions that I have yet to see any data behind. I am all for ensuringthat students with lower socioeconomicstatus have better opportunities to thrive in our county. However, I haven't seen anydata that showsthat students who have lower socioeconomic status fare better in Howard County schools that have 40% rates versus 60% rates. On the flip side, it appears that many schools that have lower rates of FARMSare more likely to have higher differences of achievement between low-income and high-income students. It seems to me that more research needsto be done to determine whatthe county can do to help the students who need it before we decideto move around thousands of students in hope that will fix a problem we know little about. Perhaps a group should be looking at the existing schools within the county that do a good job in equalizing achievement among socioeconomic statuses and then trying to recreate their practices at other schools. Finally, I think this whole process ignores the elephant in the room - development. It seems like the burden is being unfairly placed on you (the board) to fix the socioeconomicdifferences and overcrowding in schools, when the real issue is new higher-income-only developments are built in areas with little school capacity. Recent development does not follow the original vision of Columbia and mixed income communities. If there is any way you can provide feedback to the county on this issue, I encourageyou to do so, to addressthe greater concerns. Otherwise,this process of redistricting isjust going to reappear over and over again. Regards, Shelley Hintz Dear Members of the Board, I am writing to express my concern regarding the proposed redistrjcting of Polygon 127 from CMS to WLMS under the Mallo test plan. Primarily, my concern is that Polygon 127 was already redistricted at the ES and MS level during the 2018/2019_schoobtear. If the proposal of Ms. Mallo to move our Polygon from CMS to WLMS is accepted, my sixth grade son would be attending 4 different schools in 4 years: Clemens Crossing for 4th grade, PRES for 5th grade, CMS for 6th grade, and WLMS for 7th grade. The students of our polygon that would be affected from redistricting middle schools twice in 3 school years deserve better. Additionally, the reason we were part of the most recent redistricting was to fix a small feed. Under the current Malta proposal, 2 polygons are switched out of CMS-Our polygon (Polygon 127), which was just moved there in the 2018/2019 school year, and polygon 126, which has less than 5 five students in all levels projected for the 2020/2021 school year. As such, we are once again, back in the small feed situation that the original redistricting was designed to fix! Asking our kids to switch schools so soon after being redistricted during the 2018/2019 school year is extremely troubling. Creating a small feed for incoming students in our neighborhood also creates long-term issues for stability. I appeal to the Members of the Board to recognize the sacrifices our students already made in transitioning to a new school in the 2018\2019 year and allow us to remain at our current ES and MS. as EroBpsed in_every_Bian_ou_tforth (jncludinE Dr. Wu's plan and the superintendent's plan). Ms. Mallo's plan is^he_only plan that fails _to reflect that we werejustj-edlstncted; AJLother orooosed plan5 take that Lnto_accountin not makina additional moves for our Polvaon at the ES/MS level after redistricting us in 2018/2Q19_schopljsar^ Thank you, HeatherBurnham Polygon 127 https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' [External] update to polygon 127 Dalia Bracy 1 1 attachments(61 KB) poly126. jpg; Please vote against Board Member Mallo's scenario of moving polygon 127. In 2017, our polygon was redistricted from Clemens Crossing ESand Lime Kiln MSto Pointers Run ESand Clarkesville MS (took effectfor the 2018-2019school year). Our neighborhoodunderstood the reason behindthe Board's decision to redistrict our community and overwhelmingly supported the move to PRES-CMStofixthe small feed that existed at the time. With Board Member Mallo's proposed scenario our polygon would again be placed in a terribly small feed. Also, herscenario hasthe current sixth graders in Polygon 127 attending four schools in as many years: o 4th grade at Clemens Crossing ES (CCES) o 5th grade at Pointers Run ES (PRES) o 6thgradeatClarksvilleMS(CMS) o 7th grade at Wilde Lake MS (WLMS) Board Member Mallo's plan also aligns us with Polygon 126. Perthe image attached 126 has redacted data, whichsuggests lessthan 5 students at each level. Weare basicallyour own polygon moving. Our own island moving. This is exactly why the board voted in 2017 to move us away from Clemens. We were the only polygon leaving Clemens to Lime Kiln. Please do not undo what the board purposefully put in place in 2017. Please vote against moving polygon 127. Sincerely, Dalia Aly Bracy Polygon 127 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:18 P https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink'; [External] Keep "Polygon 64, 1064. 129, 1129" at River Hill High School Renhua Liang Dear Board of Education, As a resident of the village of River hlill Pointers Run, I am very concerned about Dr. Wu's proposed plan that moves polygons 190, 1190, and 118 to RHHS but keeping polygons 64, 1064, 129, 1029 at AHS. Under the current enrollment boundary, about 30% of CMS students go to AHS and the rest 70% of CMS students transit to RHHS. Moving 3 polygons (190, 1190, and 118) away from the Pointers Run community will create an even smaller feed from CMS to AHS. Based on the average student number of CMS and AhlS, it is estimated that moving these three polygons (190, 1190, and 118) will decrease the student number from 77 to 43 for the current 8th graders in CMS rising to AHS. Considering that almost half of that student population will be spitted, it will significantly impact the small group of students in 4 polygons (64, 1064, 129, 1029) toAHS. High schoolers very often stay in school for school activities after school ends. Our 4 polygons (64, 1064, 129, 1029) have trails connecting to RhlHS which allow them to come back home by walking or hiking. However, without trails accessing to AHS, parents have to drive kids back home in the middle of our work. The comprehensive trail in the village of River Hill encourages and enables residents to walk and bike as part of our daily life. Sadly, we waste this resources and create unnecessary burden to both students and parents. I do want to emphasize that polygons 190, 1190, and 118 and our polygons 64, 1064, 129, 1029 are all parts of pointers run community. We attend the same elementary school, middle school, and please do not break their long term relationship at high school, where they need the most to form clubs and develop projects. In the spirit of keeping strong feeds from one school level to the next, minimized transportation, and community stability during redistricting, we strongly suggest you consider moving polygons 64, 1064, 129, 1029 to RHHS in your plan. We believe you also share these same values for redistricting. Thank you, Renhua Liang Polygon 64 1 of2 11/4/2019, 2:18 F https://outlook. o£Bce.coi'n/maiI/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinli [External] Please keep "Polygon 64, 1064. 129. 1129" at River Hill High School Ying Yang Dear Board of Education, As a resident of the village of River Hill Pointers Run, I am very concerned about Dr. Wu's proposed plan that moves polygons 190, 1190, and 118to RHHS but keeping oolvaons 64. 1064, 129, 1029 atAHS. ~'~ " r"J:'~- - " Under the current enrollment boundary, about 30%of CMS students go to AHS and the rest TO%of CMSstudents transit to RHHS. Moving 3 polygons (190, 1190^and 118)away from the Pointers Run community will create an even smaller feed from CMSto AHS. Based on the average-student. numberof CMS and AHS' it isestimated that moving thesethree polygons (190, 1190, and 118) will decrease the student number from 77 to 43 for the current 8th graders in CMS rising to AHS. Considering that almost halfof that student population will be spitted, it will significantly impact the small group of students in 4 polyqons (64, 1064. 129. 1029) to AHS. ~ ' , --^-.. -, -.,. --., -, Highschoolers very often stay in school for school activities after school ends. Our 4 polygons (64 1064, 129, 1029)have trails connecting to RHHSwhich allowthem to come back home by walking or hiking. However, without trails accessing to AHS, parents have to drive kids back homein the middle of our work. The comprehensive trail inthe village of River Hill encourages and enables residents to walkand bikeas part of ourdaily life. Sadly,we waste this resources and create unnecessary burden to both students and parents. I dowant to emphasize that polygons 190, 1190, and 118and our polygons 64, 1064, 129, 1029are all parts of pointers run community. Weattend the same elementary school, middle school, and please do not breaktheir long term relationship at highschool, wherethey need the most to form clubs and develop projects. In the spirit of keeping strong feeds from one school level to the next, minimized transportation, and community stability during redistricting, we strongly suggest you consider moving polygons 64, 1064, 129, 1029 to RHHS in your plan. We believe you also share these same values for redistricting. Thank you, Ying Yang Polygon 64 11/4/2019, 2:17 PI https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink? [External] Polygon 2148: Dunloggin Middle to Wilde Lake Middle Sunmy Brown Earliertoday, [ emailed stating I wasAGAINST Dr. Wu'sproposed plan to transfer Polygon 2148 from Dunloggin Middle School to Wilde Lake Middle School. I didn't realize that Ms. Mallowas also making the same recommendations as Dr. Wu, redistricting Polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 in the Dorsey Search Community from Dunloggin Middle School to WildeLake Middle School.Thus, I am writing once again, OPPOSINGBOTH Dr. Wu and Ms. Malta's recommendations. Again, I implore each board member to review Policy 6010, specifically relatingto Community Stability. Currently, the proposed polygons fortransfer out of the Dorsey Search Community is less than 15% of e receiving school. In addition, Polygon2148 is less than . 7 miles away, within walking and hikingdistance from DunfogginMiddle School.The recommendations made by Dr. Wu and Ms. Mallo will fracture the Dorsey Search Community, breaking apart contiguous communities and neighborhoods, weakening school feeds. Please keep Polygon 2148 at Duntoggin Middle School. Regards, Sun my Brown Polygon2148 I of 1 11/4/2019, 2:161 October 31, 2019 To the Members of the Board of Education, Thank you for the hard work that you are putting into the redistricting process. I am writing to share my strong opposition to what has been proposed for polygons 159 and 1159. 1 am very happywith the plansthat have us staying at Mt. Hebron HighSchool because it allows usto stayat our neighborhood HS with the other half of our Valleymede neighborhood, so our walkers can remain walkers, and so we are not being sent to a high school (Marriotts Ridge HS) that is projected to be extremely overcrowded in a couple of years due to Turf Valley's development. My deep concern is about the plans that have us moving to Burleigh Manor MS. This creates a ridiculously small feed from BMMS to MHHS(about 4%). All small feeds are bad, but I believethat small and tiny feedsfrom middle school to high school are by far worse for kids' emotional and psychologicalwell-being than small feedsfrom elementary to middle school due to those years being so developmentally challenging and the need for close, trusted friends being so great. As an alternative, I would like to propose moving polygons 106 and 1106 from Patapsco MS to Burleigh Manor MS and then from MHHS to Centennial HS. This would create a good feed for them from middle school to high school aswell as keepthem with neighboringpolygons 308 and 2308, which have been proposed to move to Centennial HS in Dr. Wu's and in Dr. Martirano's plans. There are only 46 students in polygons 159 and 1159,as opposed to 89 students in polygons 106 and 1106.So this would give Patapsco MS more relief. Although I do not think a strong feed from elementary to middle school is as urgently important, I believe there is a possible wayto improve in this area as well. If polygon 304 (which is surrounded by ManorWoods polygons) is moved from Waverlyto MWES,polygons 161 and 1161can move to Waverly so that they are reunited with the rest of their neighborhood. And then 159 and 1159 can remain with our neighborhood at SJLES. I would also like to suggestthat if you are taking BethanyGlen into consideration (the development that may be built at Route 99 and Bethany Lane), please consider making it be its own polygon. It will have approximately 112 homes, so being its own polygon would make sense. Thank you very much for carefully considering what harm the 4% feed could do to these children. Sincerely, Robyn Thompson - Polygon 159 9806 Michaels Way Ellicott City 21042 https://outIook. ofKce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] thoughts on the Wu and Mallo plans Sara Benjamin Thank you Sara Benjamin 1 ofl 11/4/20)9, 2:14 P] https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/deeplink'; [External] Proposal for south of rt 216 polygons Phil Ranker After reviewing some of the recent plans that have been submitted wanted to encourage the board to put back together the community along Scaggsville Rd (which was split up about 6 years ago during middle school redistricting). Currently, Polygons 221, 1221, 2221, 1007 and 7 go from Fulton to Hammond MS to Resen/oir. In some of the proposed plans, it has 1221, 2221 and 1007 moving to Hammond MS. This creates more small feeds and further splits up our community (as well as creating an island). Also in the latest proposal, there are two polygons (297, 1297) that are further east and currently attend Murray Hill that are proposed to skip over 221, 1221, 2221, 1007 and 7 and go to Lime Kiln. I would ask that the board consider fixing the community split that occurred those years ago by using the capacity that is available at Lime Kiln to take in 221, 1221, 2221, 1007 and 7 (less than 100 students). This would greatly strengthen the feed from Fulton to Lime Kiln (by eliminating the small feed from Fulton to Hammond Ms) and also from Lime Kiln to Reservoir. Polygons 9 and 1009 currently attend hammond-hammond-reservoir. The board could, if they chose, move those students (who are across rt 216 from the other listed polygons, less than 50 students in total) to Atholton to eliminate the Hammond MS-Reservoir feed completely. This plan would also create some capacity in hlammond MS which could allow a further shift of students west (as virtually all the development is in the East/Rt 1 corridor), or could remain flexible for when the massive milk plant (which would be walkers to hammond ES and hammond MS) is developed in a couple short years. The polygons from Murray hlill could also go to Hammond MS if the board is trying to open capacity there. If polygons 1221, 2221 and 1007 are moved from Fulton to Hammond ES, it further splits off the community connected by Scaggsville road south of Rt 216, isolates these students even more AND could cause problems for the Hammond ES/MSarea once the milk plant is developed. This would not be a huge move of students but it would bring the community back together and do a great deal to strengthen those feeds. There was a big concern last evening about 430 units in Long Reach district filling up a lot of the capacity that will be created and needing to account for that. I would ask that the board give this same consideration to the milk plant (397 units) which will be coming on line and of 2 11/4/2019, 2:14 F https://outlook. ofFice, com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/deep)ink' affecting Hammond ES/Hammond MS shortly, Regards, Phil Ranker 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:14 P Good evening BoE, I wanted to respectfully ask that you consider keeping the Woodmark neighborhood together in a large feed. Our neighborhood is polygons 180, 181, and 1180. While Jennifer Mallo's proposal does keep our neighborhood together, it sends us to Wilde Lake High School. WLHS would create a small feed of 12% from Folly Quarter Middle, which is below the 6010 standard low threshold of 15%. Also, WLHS is the 3rd or 4th furthest high school away from us. We have hundreds of acres of uninhabited farmland between us and WLHS. Dr. Chao Wu's plan, while keeping the feed larger, will divide our neighborhood. Half will go to Glenelg, and half will go to River Hill, where we are currently districted. Since Glenelg and River Hill are the closest high schools to us, it makes sense for our entire neighborhood to go to one of those. Thank you for your consideration, and for all the hard Vi'ork you do! Matthew Bankert, polygon 181 Dear board members, Thanks for your great efforts on evaluating alternative redistributing plans. We appreciate Dr, ChaoWu's hardwork, but hiscurrent plan split the PRESfeed atthe highschool level by moving polygons 190, 1190, and 118to RHHS and keeping Polygons 64, 1064, 129, and 1129 at AHS, Under the current enrollment boundary, about 30% of CMS students go to AhlS and the rest 70% transit to RHHS, Your proposal of moving 3 polygons away from PRESfeed will create an even smaller feed from CMS and AHS. Based on the average student number of CMS and AHS, we estimate that your proposal will decrease the student number from 77 to 43 for the current 8th graders in CMS rising to AHS, which is nearly 50% drop. The small feed from our polygons to AHS is a massive concern for our neighborhood right now and in a long term, Please note that polygons 190, 1190 and 118 and our four polygons 64, 1064, 1029, 129 are all part ofthe PREScommunity. We attend the same ES,the same MS, and should also go to the same HS, Please do not spilt the years of friendship at HS level. HSyears are critical and touch, friendship is one ofthe key factors helping kids success in HS. Teenagers may not wantto listen to their parents, but they do appreciate and rely on their friends a lot!!! Considering keeping strong feeds from one school level to the next, minimized transportation and community stability during redistricting, we strongly suggest board members consider moving polygons 64, 1064, 129, 1029 as part of Village of River Hill to RHHS. Best, Van Polygon #64 https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deep]ink^ [External] equity in the schools Jean Silver-lsenstadt Thank you, Jean Silver-lsenstadt of 1 11/4/2019, 2:12 Karen Raksis MD 4693 Hallowed Stream Ellicott City, M D 21042 October 31, 2019 To Howard County Board of Education, I live in polygon 1148 in Dorsey Search and have for 11 years, have 2 children in Howard County public schools: a 4th grader at Northfield Elementary (NES) and a 7th grader at Dunloggin Middle School (DMS). I alsogrew up in Columbia. I am saddenedto have to defend our school assignment. I do NOTsupport the move of polygon 1148to Running Brook ElementarySchool (RBES) and Wilde Lake Middle School (WLMS) as suggested in Ms Mallo's and Mr Wu's recent plans. 1) My 7th grader was redistricted in elementary school from Thunder Hill to Northfield. It is not appropriate to move him again. 2) The proposed move would so clearly dividethe neighborhoodof DorseySearch, sending the childrento 2 differentelementary and middle schools. That destroysthe unity of a community and what makes a community so valuable as a partner in raisingour children. Forexample, for a 7thgrader to be ableto ride his bike or walkto a friend's house is so powerful in fostering independence but he wouldn't know the kids in the neighborhoods across the street because they go to a different school. 3) The polygons proposed to move (148, 276, 392, 1148, 2148) are primarily lower-cost housing - townhousesand apartments. It feels like we are targeted as less important than the majority single family home polygonsjust acrossthe street, whichare not offered up to move. Perhaps there isa belief that our families would not be savvy enough to object, which is clearly false. 4) Similarly, the polygons proposed to move are more Brown and Black. Given all the talk about desegregating our schools, evening out FARMS participation, and returning to the ideal of diversity that Columbia was founded on, it is difficult to see how this move is aligned with those goals. Moving more lower socioeconomic and Brown/Black families to the already diverse RBES and WLMS schools further concentrates like children together and culturally/economically different children separate. 5) It is NOT acceptable to propose new plans at this late hour, just weeks before a decision is to be made. It takes away the vetting, analyzing and organizing that other polygons had the opportunity to do. Our polygon was not in the initial plans for redistricting. 6) I attended RBES and WLMS myself and received an excellent education. This is not about the quality of the schools but about the profound loss of community a move like this would wreck on my neighborhood and our children. Thank you for reading my comments and feel free to contact me with any questions. Karen Raksis, MD 646-734-0274 https://outIook. ofiRce. com/mail/redistrictrag@hcpss. org/deeplink'; [External] Proposed Redistricting Andrea Vanier Our community thanks you for the countless hours devoted to school improvement. In response to Jen Mallo's proposal please take a closer look at and reconsider the moves from Polygons 95, 301 , 1095, 1301 , and 2095 from llchester Elementary to Waterloo Elementary for the following reasons: . The Montgomery Meadows neighborhood is being divided with polygon 84 remaining at IES. . The IESto BBMS feed is currently 100%; the proposed changes will create a small feed per grade level which is in violation of policy 6010. . IES isn't overcrowded, and unlike other parts ofthe county, no large growth is expected in this area. It is a small, close-knit school that shares a campus with BBMS. . The proposal breaks apart these 5 polygons from a larger contiguous group and creates a small island effect with multiple different elementary schools bordering. . This is essentially a swap with polygon 76. Polygon 78 is located near WES on the other side of a major highway- route 100. This swap removes students from their community school at both IES and WES and creates small feeds to middle school for both elementary schools. . This proposal moves approximately 7300 students county wide. Montgomery Meadows is one community, and is being split in two. Neighborhoods should not be split whenever possible. Going to school with all of your neighbors creates strong bonds and has a positive impact on emotional well- being. When all neighbors attend the same school, parents have more of a "village" to rely on. Montgomery Road is not a dividing line in our school community. We do not feel it would be prudent to break apart a neighborhood school, that is not overcrowded, that enjoys strong feeds in favor of a weak feed. The llchester to Bonnie Branch Middle School feed is currently 100%. Moving just a few kids from each grade from IES to WES, only to return them back to the BBMS creates a small feed, which is something policy 6010 specifically tries to avoid. IES isn't overcrowded, and unlike other parts of the county, no large growth is expected in this area. It is a small, close-knit school and shares a campus with Bonnie Branch Middle. Taking a small cohort of kids out of each grade doesn't achieve any particular goal, and in fact, creates a problem that didn't exist before. This is not only disruptive to students' lives, but adds more transportation costs, time, and has a negative environmental impact. We appreciate your attention to our concerns and believe strongly that Polygons 95, 301, 1095, 1301, and 2095 should remain at llchester Elementary School. Sincerely, Andrea Vanier Polygon 1095 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:11 F https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink<: [External] Concerns with Dr. Wu's Redistricting Plan Matthew Cavanaugh Dear Board Members, Thankyou for all your work on redistricting. Though my wife hassubmitted testimony on behalfof our family, today I felt compelled to reach out directly after seeing the new plan posted by Dr. Wu on his facebook page. Though I appreciate Dr. Wu's efforts throughout this redistricting process, and am proud to have voted for him, am gravely concerned about this plan and the impact it has on my community. Likethe superintendent and Ms. Mallo's plan. Dr. Wu's new plan redistricts my polygon (1066) and the surrounding polygons (66, 134, 1066, 1134, 2134) in the Communities West of Cedar from Clemmons Crossing to Swansfield Elementary school. I want to strongly express my opinion that all Howard County Schools are good schools. I believe my son can be well served by any school in this system. That said, this move redistricts our communities from our neighborhood Elementary school, which is woven into the fabric of our community. Additionally, our polygons increase socioeconomic diversity at Clemmons Crossing which is a goal the board has purported to support. More concerning is the fact that both Dr. Wu and the superintendents plan recreate very small feeds at the middle school level. It is worth noting that our communities have suffered a tiny feed for many years and it was thankfully just corrected in the last round of redistricting when we were moved to Wilde Lake highschool. This is a move we greatly appreciated. Both Dr. Wu and the superintendent's plan recreate this tiny feed since we will be the only polygons feeding from Swansfield to Wilde Lake Middle School. Additionally, in Dr. Wu's plan we are the only polygons moving into Swansfield. A move that does not meaningfully impact the socioeconomic diversity at Swansfield. At least in the superintendent's plan our moves are coupled with other polygon moves that much more positively impact socioeconomic diversity at swansfield. Ms. Mallo's plan is the best of these 3 options. Though it moves us from our beloved home elementary school, it does so with other polygons that meaningfully impact socioeconomic diversity at SwansfieldAND it redistricts us at the middle and MS level as well to move in a feed with those other polygons. Ms. Mallo's proposal meaningfully impacts FARM rating and creates a stronger feed than either of the other two options. Ms. Mallo, I thank you for your efforts and hope you will be steadfast in your commitment to making all communities a part of the solution to turn our schools into a true school system. 1 of2 11/4/2019, 2:11 F https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplmk'; As a supporter of Dr. Wu's would like to address him directly. Dr. Wu, I appreciate that you have strong support in the Clarksville/River hill communities and may feel a sense of obligation to those communities. But please remember that you have supporters all over the county that voted for you and trust you to do what is best for their families as well. I've listened to you speak in the working sessions about the plight of different communities and I knowyou care. I respectfully askyou to reconsider your plan. Your plan insulates the Clarksville Communities from the moves the superintendent and Ms. Mallo have suggested, but preserves those same moves in our community. Just like your neighbors in Clarksville, we do not want to leave our homeschools. We do not want to disrupt our students. But if students must be disrupted and redistricting must occur, every community and village should be part of that solution. Moving our polygons alongside other polygons is a fair and equitable solution that meaningfully addresses the socioeconomic concerns at Swansfield Elementary school. Thank you for your continued work on this matter. Kind Regards, Matthew Cavanaugh- Matthew Cavanaugh MJCavanaughl ©gmail.com 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:11 P https;//outlook. o£Rce. coiTi/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] Opposition to Proposed Changes to NES and DMS Li Li I am Li Li living in Ellicott City (polygon 2148) anda mom ofa 4th grader in Northfield School. I was informed that our school polygons (polygons 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) are proposed to be moved to Running Brook ES and Wilde Lake MS in your updated plan made public last night. JLstEQBgIy^fiBOseJhjs.pIan for the followins reasons: l_Longer commute for the kids In your proposal, you singled out the polygons north ofRt 108, west of Rt 29 and east of Columbia Roadto feedto RunningBrook ES and Wilde Lake MS. We live in KingscupCourt. Ourcurrent schools are^Northfield ESand Dunloggin MS.They areabout 0. 7 miles'from Northfield ES.Literally, Kingscup Court is within walking zone ofNorthfield andDunloggin MS. There is also a pedestrian line crossingColumbia and a lot kidsgo to schoolthrough Hemlock ConeWay community to theschools. Running Brook ES and Wilde Lake MS are 3. 2 miles and 4. 4 miles from where we live which makes "walkingto school" impossible. Being moved to Running brook, our kidswill need more time commute daily. Parentswill needextra time sendingthem to andback from school in casethey haveafter-school events or activities. Longer commute along the busy Rt 29 and Columbia Road increases the traffic safety concerns for the kids. It also increasesthe burdenof the already deteriorating traffic in Howardcounty. The only transportation the kids can rely on is school busing. This will request increased budget for bus transportation, which unnecessarily impose the tighten budget ofthe school system. 2. splitting community and breaking our kids' social network We have been living in Ellicott City for almost 10 years. My 9-year old daughter has her social network with her friends in the Dorsey Search areaand in Northfield. She is supposed to go to middle school withher friendstogether. Movingto WildeLake MS, shehas to beseparated from herfriends living on theother sideof Columbia Rd (also belongingto Dorsey Searchwhich is fedto Dunloggin accordingto Jen Mallo's proposal) and will feel isolated psychologically. 3. Thechanges came out inthe very last minute andhas not beenfully communicated to thepublic. It lacksthe samedue processas the previous proposals. It alsodoes not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 4. The changeslack detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, such as fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. 1 of2 11/4/2019, 2:10 P https://outlook.ofEce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' For these reasons. I strongly oppose Dr Wu's proposal. Thankyou very much for your attention Li Li 4512 Kingscup Court EIIicott City, MD 21042 2of2 11/4/2019, 2:1OP https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink' [External] Redistricting Comment Aaron C Thanks, Aaron Cheskis Polygon 1064 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:08 P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink? [External] Idea for Overcrowding at SJLES/Dunloggin Jennifer Meckes Middle School: -There are 2 small feeds going from Thunderhill Elementary School to both Dunloggin and Oakland Mills Middle Schools. *What if you sent the kids at Thunderhill going to Dunloggin to Oakland Mills? That would increase the feed Thunderhill to Oakland Mills. *And then that would free up space at Dunloggin in which a few polygons from Saint Johns Lane could be sent to Dunloggin. Doing so would increase the small feed going from Saint Johns Lane to Dunloggin. And finally, the small feed from Dunloggin to Mount h4ebron would be increased as a result of these moves. I don't know for certain if the numbers would work as don't have that data but it seemed to solve some small feed issues in the region. Jennifer Meckes, Realtor The Legal Team of Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. 10805 Hickory Ridge Road Columbia, MD 21044 Office: (410)715-2748 Cell: (937)829-8418 www. 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If you receive this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail, and please delete this message and all attachments from your system. Warning: Ifyou receive an email from anyone concerning a transaction involving Long & Foster Companies ("Long & Foster") which requests that you wire funds or that you provide nonpublic personal information by unsecured return email, do not respond to the message. To protect yourself, immediately call your real estate agent or other contact at Long & Foster. 0 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:07 P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistncting@hcpss. org/deeplink'; [External] Feasibility plan panyongmei@gmail. com Thu 10/31/2019 1:37 PM To: Hcpss Redistricting Question: is feasibility plan still on table? Didn't hearyou discuss it during last night's work session. Hope you can integrate feasibility plan into your proposal. I prefer feasibility plan to assign Howard high students to Long Reach over other plans, including those from Dr Wu and Mrs. Mallo. Thanks Yongmei Pan, PhD Polygon: 1085 Sent from my iPhone 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 2:07 F Dear Board Members, I live in Polygon 1028 and attended the Board of Education Work Session yesterday during which similarities and differences between the plans presented by Ms. Jen'Mallo and Dr. Chao Wu were discussed. I wanted to draw your attention to a comment that Ms. Mallo made to Dr. Wu, while you were discussing moving polygons from Howard High School to reduce overcrowding. In particular, Ms. Mallo emphasized the importance of not splitting neighborhoods apart when discussing polygons 1300 and 300, which are current feeders to Howard"High School. Ms. Cutreneo also discussed the importance of neighborhood continuity when addressing which polygons to keep at Oakland Mills High School. These particular comments drew my interest because Ms. Mallo's "test scenario" plan separates and divides Polygons 28 and 186from the rest of our Pheasant Ridge community. Her plan disrupts the community even more than the Superintendent's plan, which cuts our Pheasant Ridge community in half by removing polygons 187, 1187, 188, and 1188, by sending the remaining polygons to a further middle school. Of particular concern is the separation of Polygon 28, which is one of three well-connected polygons-1028, 28, 2028. These three contiguous polygons include homes close to the River Hill Village Center, bounded by Route W8, River Hill High School, the River Hill Village Center and Great Star Drive. Removing Polygon 28 from Polygons 1028 and 2028 arbitrarily splits apart homes on the southern "portion of Indian Summer Drive from the rest of the community, based on nothing more than a crosswalk (see Figure 1 below). Ms. Mallo's plan breaks up our contiguous neighborhood in the same manner that Ms. Mallo and Ms. Cutreneo had discouraged when discussing polygons that currently feed to Howard High School and Oakland Mills High School. Of note, polygons 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 1 85, and 1185 are in close proximity to Clarksville Elementary, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School (See Figure 2). Additionally, most of these homes are part of the Village of River Hill neighborhood of Pheasant Ridge and are walkers to these schools. For reference, the main arteries of the neighborhood are Linden Linthicum Lane, Indian Summer Drive, Fall Moon Ride, Great Star Drive (The portion of Great Star closest to Route 108 and the River Hill Village Center), South Wind Circle, Trotter Rd, and Route 108. The homes on and off of these roads have attended Clarksville Elementary School, Clarksville Middle School, and River Hill High School for decades. Please maintain this long-established feeder system, by keeping our polygons together attending River Hill community schools (1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188, 1188, 185, and 1185). Please prioritize the importance of contiguous neighborhoods at their community schools in all future modifications of the final Attendance Area Adjustment. I would also like to convey strong support for Dr. Chao Wu's plan as a starting point for the Attendance Area Adjustment, as his plan addresses a reasonable reduction in FARM rates while still balancing utilization with minimal disruption to communities, including our community in River Hill. Thank you for your continued effort and support of all HCPSS students. -Dalia Shlash Polygon 1028 Figure 1. 1028, 28, and 2028 ".. 122 Figure 2. 1028, 28, 2028, 1186, 186, 187, 1187, 188,1188, 185, and 1185 1^. https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplin]. [External] Feedback on Mallo and Wu plans from a resident of polygon 2056 Mona Leigh Guha 2. Forall moves, I amso pleased that the Boarddecided to exempt risingjuniors. This is important forthe socialwell-being ofthese children. I believethat it isequally important for rising sophomores. Thesechildren - the class of2023 - arecurrently freshmen and arejust getting usedto a newschool. Removingthem from a placethat isbecoming familiar -where theyare making newfriends and learning who their guidance counselors are,where they are becominga partof the soccer team and getting a rolein the school play- isunacceptable for supporting the emotional and social well-being ofthese students. Oncea student hasbegun ata highschool, they should beallowed to finishthere. Asking rising sophomores to be redistricted will mean three schools in three years for these children'at a crucial time in their adolescent development. To mitigate cost, rising sophomores could beasked to provide their own transportation if they remain at the high school wherethey were freshmen. Whilethis would bea hardshipfor our family, we would makeit workto providestability for our child. I askthat the Boardof Education allow rising sophomores the same exemption of rising juniorsand seniors and that they be allowed to stayat the school where they began theTr freshman year. Finally moving the -56polygons from OMHSto AHS next year means moving about 15rising sophomores. Andwhile they are lovely children, theyare not all bestfriends. Theyhave made other friends at OMMS and OMHS because the county took them as a small feed from AESto OMMS. Please allow them to finish their high school career at OMHS. Go Scorps, Mona Leigh Guha Polygon 2056 11/4/2019. 2:06 PI https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] Wu Oct 30 Updated Redistricting Plan Doug Rodgers I've already submitted a public response to Ms. Mallo's redistricting plan, but I feel compelled to expand on that response given that Dr. Wu feels Ms. Mallo's recommendation is somehow a good idea for the greater Dorsey Search Community. Polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 represent a contiguous area bounded by Columbia Rd, Route 29, and Route 108; this is the southern quarter of the greater Dorsey Hall Community, which also includes the Dunloggin, Gray Rock, Highview Estates, and Nob Hill neighborhoods. The current Northfield ES attendance area accurately captures the geographic and soc/a/ boundary of our community: bounded on the north by Rt 40, on the east by Rt 29, on the south by Rt 108, and on the west by the Little Patuxent River, we can walk or bike along sidewalks and nature paths to get to anywhere within our community without having to cross any major multi-lane highways. Families in polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 can safely walk and bike to both Northfield ES and Dunloggin MS; we can safely walk and bike to visit friends and classmates throughout the current Northfield ES and a large portion of the Dunloggin MS attendance area. Carving out polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 and placing them into the Running Brooke ES and Wilde Lake MS attendance areas rips out a significant portion of the tightly- knit Dorsey Hall/Dunloggin/Grayrock community. Neighborhoods may be defined by roads, but a community is centered around the activities it takes part in; those activities are centered on the schools they attend. The changes to polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 in both Ms. Mallo's and Dr. Wu's plans will isolate us from community we live. Homes in polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 contain a large percentage oftownhome and condo developments, especially compared to greater Dorsey Hall Community. This makes it easy to Justify redistricting because the high student density gives Dr. Wu and Ms. Mallo more bang for their buck. A few polygons moved, no walkers affected, feeders adjusted... it's a win for everyone, right? of 2 11/4/2019, 2:05 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' The problem is that these polygons greatly contribute to the racial, cultural, and economic diversity of Northfield ES and Dunloggin MS; removing us from these attendance areas will reduce the diversity in these schools. By all practical measures, Route 108 can only be crossed at Columbia Road. At this intersection, Route 108 is a six lane divided highway. Polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 are geographically isolated from the Running Brooke ES and Wilde Lake MS communities. Our children would make new friends in these communities, but howcan we ever really be a part of their community when our only way to reach our new friends and classmates is crossing a six-lane divided highway? Communities are strongest when racially, culturally, and economically diverse families attend schools that aren't pooled from geographically isolated areas. The proposed changes to polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 will isolate us from the community we live, and it will reduce the racial, cultural, and economic diversity that makes Northfield ES and Dunloggin MS great. Best, Douglas Rodgers Owner and Resident 4528 Kingscup Ct Polygon 2148 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 2:051 about:! Dear Board Members, First I would like to sincerely thank those members who have clearly spent vast amounts of their time Improving data and developing plans. You should not have to spend this much of your own time on these efforts, but I am grateful that you have. I am a resident of polygon 1159 in Valtey Made where we are currently assigned to St John's Lane ES, Patpasco MS and Mt. Hebron HS. I am not writing to plead for you to community continuity or history. While those things matter to me, by biggest concern is the creation of very small feed for our polygons. The most recent proposal made by the board would move polygons 159 and 1159 to Manor Woods and Burlelgh Manor while leaving us at Mt Hebron for high school. These moves create a very small feed for our students at the High School level. The projected enrollment for our polygons for 2020-2021 are below. All enrollments are taken from the enrollment projection spreadsheet available on HCPSS website. Polygon Elementary Middle High 159 67 26 39 1159 53 20 30 Total 120 46 69 The enrollment at Mt Hebron as of September 10th was 1, 693. This yields a feed of 4%. Mt Hebron capacity is 1 ,400 students. Assuming redlstricting achieves the target capacity of 110% enrollment in 2020-2021 would be 1, 540. This yields a feed of 4.5%. I appreciate that you heard the concerns from residents of our polygons about remaining walkers to Mt Hebron. I agree that keeping walkers as waiters should be a priority. However, leaving our polygons at the high school level but moving us for elementary and middle school, thus creating a 4. 5% feed from middle school to high school is not a reasonable solution. If you are truly committed to keeping walkers as walkers you must make the difficult decisions to make room for us within our community schools to avoid the unacceptably small feed of 4. 5%. St Johns Lane and Waverly are the two elementary schools in close proximity to our community. Currently the feed from Waveriy to Patapsco is a relatively small feed at about 13% (based on 110% capacity enrollment at Patapsco MS). See below. of 4 11/4/2019, 1:58 P| about:bl purrent Assignments [Waverlyto Pataspco polygons 160, 162, 1160, 1162, 12161 Polygon ES MS HS 160 19 14 21 162 42 22 25 1160 1162 43 23 27 2161 50 33 50 Total 154 92 123 Feed to Patapsco Middle = 13. 0% The current Board proposal would reduce this feed to 8% by moving polygon 2162 back to St Johns Lane ES. See below. |Board Proposal proposed Waverly to Patapsco feed 160, '162, 1160, 1162 (2161 removed) Polygon ES MS HS 160 19 14 21 162 42 22 25 1160 1162 43 23 27 FTotal 104 59 73 'eed to Patapsco Middle = 8. 3% Mt Hebron High School Is located In polygon 1161 and the students in that polygon should obviously attend Mt Hebron and those students should attend a middle school with a reasonable fed to Mt Hebron, Patapsco is the logical fit for them. Their feed to Patapsco should not be further reduced. Below are two proposals that would result in better feeds for all polygons in our Immediate vicinity. 2 of 4 11/4/2019, 1:58 { about:bl alternative Proposal #1 (western option #1) IWaverlyto Patapsco 160, 162, 1160, 1162, 2161 [add 161 and 1161 Polygon ES MS HS 161 43 16 27 160 19 14 21 162 42 22 25 1160 1161 74 28 47 1162 43 23 27 2161 50 33 50 FTotal 271 136 197 Feed to Patapsco Middle = 19. 2% Alternatively, polygons 159 and 1159 could be sent to Waveriy. |Alternatlve Proposal #2 (revised western option #1) ^/VaverlytoPatapsco160, 162, 1160, 1162, 2161 -add 159 land 1159 Polygon ES MS HS 159 67 26 39 160 19 14 21 162 42 22 25 1159 53 20 30 1160 1162 43 23 27 2161 50 33 50 FTotal 274 138 192 Feed to Patapsco Middle = 19. 5% 3of4 11/4/2019, 1:58 f about:bl( acknowledge that Waverly does not currently have the capacity to accept additional students. Western Option #1 recommended moving polygon 304 to Bushy Park ES. I heard testimony from residents of polygon 304 requesting that they not be moved yet again and I truly understand their concerns. No students should have to be moved in two consecutive redistricting cycles. Well planned redistricting should no; require moving students in two consecutive cycles. In the last cycle, the 134 students of polygon 304 were moved out of Manor Woods into Waveriy. Now, 2 years later the proposal is to move 120 students from SJLES to Manor Woods, when moving us or other polygons from SJLES to Waveriy would provide better feeds for everyone. I beg you to please take a thorough look at the situation in our region. Please do not make another bad decision to avoid acknowledging or correcting previous bad decisions. I am not sufficiently familiar with the polygons located in the western area assigned to Waveriy to make recommendations for movements as regards community continuity or previous redlstricting moves. However, all of those polygons currently are assigned to Mount View MS and Marriotts Ridge HS, and as such should not adversely affect feeds. I know that there is no solution that will please everyone, but I do not believe that the best solution for our region can possibly Include a feed of under 5% for our students. Thank you for your consideration and your countless hours of work on this. Sincerely, Kristen Piggott - polygon 1 159 4of4 11/4/2019, 1:58] To Whom it May Concern, This is my second letter to address my concerns about plans to redistrictpolygon 2148 from Northfield and Dunlogginto RunningBrook and Wilde Lake Middle School. I am a residentof KingscupCourt and my children are in school at Northfield elementary and I have now learned that both Jen Mallo and Chao Wu have developed plans proposing to move our district. In my previous letter, I expressed concern that we were splitting the community, taking students away from a schoolthey could walkto, and losingsight of the overallgoal ofcreating equity in Howard County. I am writingagain, because I feel it necessaryto reiterate howgrave it isthat we are ignoring the equity issues in this matter. I truly believe that all schools in Howard County are good schools and all ofthem would be a good place for my children. But it seems that all the students you are proposing to redistrict to a lower income school district are from the diverse, townhome communities along Columbia Road, while the more affluent and generally white families in single family homes are allowed to staywith the community. I grew up in Columbia and I knowthis is unrepresentative ofthe values of HowardCounty. Ifthis ishow we decide to redistrict, we have taught children who live in smaller homes and apartments that you only are given the privilege ofgoing to school in your own community if yourfamily hasenough money to buya large house.We have taught minoritychildren that diversity is not important to us, andthat white children are given the priority to stay at their own school. Wehave also taught the children ofmore affluentfamilies that it isjust fineto onlygo to school with children who look like them and live the same way they do. Ifthis is the solution the board chooses, then please do anotherarticle with the Baltimore Sun and be honest that you have given up on creating equity here in Howard County, and instead have chosen to focuson prioritizinggiving the wealthiestfamilies of HowardCounty what they want. Sincerely, Mary Brown Resident and Mother, Kingscup Court https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Feedback from working sessions Jennifer Funk Thank you for your work at last night's working session. As a community, we understand that this is a complex and sometimes contentious process and appreciate your hard work and willingness to shoulder this burden on behalf of our county's children. I especially appreciate Dr. Wu, Ms. Delmont-Small and Ms. Malta's work and attention to detail in Grafting workable solutions to reduce the disruption going forward by developing a true feeder system, look forward to seeing Ms. Delmont-Small's plan. As it stands, I support Dr. Wu's Planto retain my family's polygon 1183 along with our sister polygons 183 and 2183 at River Hill High School. Dr. Wu's Plan does the bestjob of minimizing transportation costs and community disruption for the overall county by moving less than half the number of children compared to Dr. Martirano's Plan. Dividing one or more polygons from the rest of their established, cohesive community neighborhood destroys the very community stability that your constituents have repeatedly voiced is of utmost importance. In all past redistricting proceedings. Board of Education decisions have committed to keeping these neighborhoods together at every school level. Please uphold this decades-long precedent. Lastly, maintaining fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs is critical especially in light of continued pressure from rising healthcare costs. I am concerned about the potential further cuts in para-educators, rising transportation costs, and the effects we face with diverting funds from technology instruction to payfor more buses to swap children between schools. Thank you for listening to the community. Respectfully, Jennifer Funk Polygon 183 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 1:571 https://outlook. office. com/roail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/deeplinl [External] Reg : oppose to Redistricting proposal pavani Siddabattula 1 ofl 11/4/2019, ]:57P Dear Board Members, Thank you forserving on the Board ofEducation. Wevalue your commitment andyour support for the education of Howard County children. I am a resident ofPolygon 127 and am writing to express concern regarding Board Member Mallo's test scenarios that would redistrict Polygon 127 fora secondtime since the 2018-2019 school year, this time from PRES-CMS-AHSto PRES"WLMS- AHS. I also would encourage the Boardto explore Board Member Wu'stest scenarios asthey appear to address several goals of the Board while still preparing the County for the inclusion of High School #13. My specificconcerns with Board MemberMallo's test scenariosare: Thescenarios would undo the successful 2017 redistricting that fixedthe small feed problem for Polygon 127: In2017, our polygon was redistricted from Clemens Crossing ESand Lime Kiln MS to Pointers Run ES and Clarkesville MS (took effect for the 2018-2019 school year). Our neighborhood understoodthe reasonbehind the Board'sdecision to redistrictour community and overwhelmingly supported the move to PRES-CMSto fixthe small feed that existed atthe time. In Board Member Mallo's scenarios, our polygon would again be placed in a small feed.I oppose Board Member Malta's scenarios and support keeping Polygon 127 with its current large feed of PRES-CMSfor elementary and middle school. Fourschools in fouryears is untenable anddirectly violates Policy6010: Current sixthgraders in Polygon 127 would be expected to attend four schools in as many years under Board Member Malta's approach: 0 4th gradeat Clemens CrossingES(CCES) o 5th grade at Pointers Run ES (PRES) o 6th gradeat Clarksville MS(CMS) o 7th grade at Wilde Lake MS (WLMS) Therefore, Board Member Mallo's approach would violate the goals of Policy 6010 (IV. B. 2. ), whichstates the Board will make"every attempt to not move a student more than onceat any school level or the same student more frequently than once every five years. " This policy is important to our neighborhood because inthe 2018-2019 school yearwe experienced firsthand the impart and challenges redistrirting presents as our children worked to adjust to new academicenvironments andfriend groups afterthe last redistrictingdecision. For'thesesame children to endure another redistrictingjust a few years later places an extreme burden on them. Moving our polygon again negatively impacts stability now and in the future: Moving our children yet again to a new middle school just two years after the last redistricting for our neighborhoodwould be harmfulto stabilityand to the communityour children havenow built Further' our ?*, , 5Msi moving community to WLMS does not support long term stability m light ofthe current and future development near Downtown Columbia and to the east. As a result ofthat growth, it's reasonable to conceive that ourpolygon could besubject to additional redistricting in the nearfuture if we are moved to WLMSnow. All plansand scenariosto date (exceptfor Board Member Mallo's scenarios) recognizethese factors andhave maintained our current feed of PRES-CMS. In contrast to our concerns regarding Board Member Malta's scenarios, Board Member Wu's scenarios appearto take a holistic and long-term approach to redistricting and should be further explored. This should include exploration of the testing scenario that would keep Polygon 127 districted to PRES-CMS-AHS. The Superintendent's proposal (moves Polygon 127 from PRES-CMS-AHS to PRES-CMS-River Hill HS) also could support long term stability for our polygon. If the Superintendent's plan is advanced, please consider an exception for our current students at AHS to stay at the school If they provide their own transportation. Such an exception should include current freshman because they would otherwise be required to attend four schools in fouryears (7th grade at LKMS, 8th grade at CMS, 9th grade at AHS, and 10th grade at RHHS). It is important to note that the potential for stability I mention in both the Superintendent's plan and in Board Member Wu's plan would only exist if all of the changes included in those plans are made. Singular changes to the Superintendent's plan or to Board Member Wu's scenarios would jeopardize the stability the plans are designed to enable and could potentially exacerbate the overall problems the Board aims to address. We have always taken a reasonable approach to redistricting and thank you for the consideration of our concerns. We will continue to pay close attention during the Board meetings and will provide updated feedback as new considerations arise or additional concerns are identified. We implore you to remember Polygon 127's recent redistricting in the 2018-2019 school year, ask that you avoid small feeds and maintain contiguous stable feeds for Polygon 127, and keep us districted to PRES-CMS. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Michael K. Bracy Polygon 127 https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] Opposing Redistricting Proposals that moving Potygon 1148 from Northfield Elementary School to Running Brook Elementary School hlua Yang I live in Polygon 1148 and am very concerned that my community will possibly be affected in several proposals. I oppose the changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302)for the following reasons: 1. The change came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposals. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 2. Northfield Elementary School is not overpopulated and people lives in the Polygon 1148 has long been integrated in the Northfield Elementary School community. For example, we are so close to the Northfield Elementary School (walking distance about 0. 7 miles) and there are walking pathways to school from our neighborhood that we frequently walk to school playground. Regards, Hua Yang 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 1:54 F https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Community Plan Proposal - previously submitted, please consider Sunia Lessing I 1 attachments(943 KB) Alternative Plan - with Polygon Data. pdf; Good Morning dear board members, The community appreciates your hard work and the difficult position you have been placed in. After Dr. M's proposal, Mr. Sumeet Singh has planned and proposed the attached plan, and this plan quickly gathered support because it accomplishes a lot of the tasks set out by the board to achieve relief in overcrowding and address the SES data. Please take this plan under consideration as well. Thank you, ~ Sunia of 1 11/4/2019. 1:54 F Alternative Plan Updated with 2020 Polygon Data Superintendent's Attendance Area Adjustment Plan (SAAAP) was prepared with three guiding principles: 1) To balance capacities; 2) To advance equity by distribution students participating In FARMs; and 3) To do so by planning ahead thereby minimizing double moves. While SAAAP has started a countywide ideological debate, however before we get too caught up in the tall claims it is important to pause and look at the actual numbers: Is this hype or is the plan actually deliverinj on these priorities? Is average 3. 2% reduction In FARMs (from 40. 8% to 37. 6%) in 5 high FARMS schools viewed as sufficient success? Is the plan being able to deliver close to uniform capacity utilizations across the county? Is there actual advance planning so the proposed moves don't need to be undone in 2024? Is this a minimum disruption plan/ reassigning 7/396 students today and possibly the same number again in 4 years when additional capacities are added in Talbott Spring ES, ES43, Dunloggin MS, Hammond HS and HS137 Are there any other plans that can deliver the same or better results with lesser disruption? What if there is a plan with halfthe numbers of reasslgnments that delivers much better results? High School numbers Is a good place to start, because they offer a summary view of what is happening: High Schools SAAAPwill end up reassienlnearound 6,000high school students over 4 years (2, 851 now + a similar number in 4 years with 1, 858 new capacities in HS13 & Hammond), and bring down max FARMS in high schools from 47% to 42%. The Alternative Plan can potentially deliver much better results by reassleningonly 3. 150 hiehschool students over the same 4 year period (1, 200 now + 1, 950 after HS13). Uniformly balancing the overcrowdini across all high schools to a 97%-106% range, and reducing the max FARMs across high schools from 47% to 40%. This table summarizes the plan for High Schools:Column (A) withonly 508 moves in 2020addresses the immediate overcrowding at Howard, Hebron & Centennial andfixes some ofthe FARMsbalance; Column (B) with 1.499 moves in 2024, brings high schools to a max 117% utilization; and Column (C) shows better distribution of FARMswith max downto 41%, insteadof 42% with SAAAP. - polygon detailsat the endof this report High Schools Size 2020 2020 2fOA 3QM Move to.. m2020! 2020% Ntoveto.. in 2024) 2024% FARMS SAAAP FARMS FARMs AltPlan MOVBI - RaduceOvercrowding Hebron [A] (+GrDWth In 2020PolYa}j -i2L In A in B 1C) MtHebron 1, 400 1, 644117% 1, 791 128%|taMamott 135 1CS% to Marriott 44 115% 16% 14% 17% MamottsR 1, 615 1, 530 95% 1, 661 103%! 106% 114% 5% 8% 5% Glenelg 1, 420 1, 164 82% 1, 202 85%! 2% 1% Mov II - Raducn Overcrowding in Centannfal & Distributa FARMS Centennial 1, 360 1, 634 120% 1, 698 125% to Wi Ide L to Wilde L 114 113% 11% 12% 5 12% Wilde Lake 1, 424 1, 349 95% 1, 347 95% toRiverH 100% 100% 46% 38% 39 41% RiverHilt 1, 488 1, 462 98% 1, 358 91% 104% 97X 3% 1% Atholton 1, 460 1, 482 102% 1, 537 105% 102% I 105%| 10% 25% 10% Move (11- Utilize HSlS/Hammond Additional Capacity & Reduce Overerowding m Howard Howard 1, 420 1, 921 136% 2, 028 143% to Oakland 141 119% to Long R 134 117% 14% 15% 35 14% to Long R 84 Oakland M 1, 400 1, 341 96% 1, 326 95% 106% to Long R 41 102% 45% 41% 1 1, 488 1, 691 114% Long Reach 2, 108 142% 114%' to HS13 852 96% 47% 42% 325 41% Hammond 1,420 1, 414 116% 1, 621 114% ioo%| to HS13 112 106% ''10% 39% 20 40% 2023 HS13 1, 658 73%| 36% Reservoir 1, 551 1, 698 110% 1, 908 123% 109%| to HS13 202 llo%| 26% 28% 26% 19, 104 18,330 96% 19,585 103% Total Moves 508 Total Moves 1,499 of 7 11/4/2019, 1:54 P about:bl So why is the Alternative Plan so much more effective than SAAAP? This picture will help understand what is causing the difference: SAAAP is moving 2, 851 high school students in a westward direction, a lot of these moves are quite unnecessary, and will need to be undone in 2024 when Hammond & HS13 create 1, 858 new capacities in the east- side (represented by the big white circle). 2023 Wdtt Side Particularly harmful is the 502 students being moved from Capacity 10, 157 Projected 10,541 schools adjacent to HS13: SAAAP extra 502 Utiliration 109% . (+) 192 from Hammond to Atholton ZOZ3 EastSide . (+) 256 from Oakland Mills to Atholton Caoa(. i ty 8, 937 Protected8. 891 (+) 96 from Reservoir to River Hill SAAAP Less S02 Utilliation 94% . (-) 65 from Wilde Lake to Oakland Mills HS13 is well positioned to absorb all overcrowding from neighboring east-side schools of Long Reach, Oakland Mills, Hammond, Reservoir and Howard, and still have capacity for more. Moving 502 students away from HS13 will bring the average utilization of east-side schools down to 94% and the west-side to an overcrowding of average 109%. The Alternative Plan directs these moves more carefully, addressing the entire east-side overcrowding in Long Reach, Oakland Mills, Hammond, Reservoir and Howard, by absorption into HS13, without any moves out- west from any of these schools, Since the only overcrowding really needingto be addressed is in 2023 West Side Capacity 10, 167 Centennial and Hebron (represented by the red circle) PrOj'eelcd 10.S41 Utilization 104% with no new capacity is being created there, the Alternative Plan directs this overcrowding toward the r 2023 EastSidff Capacity8, 937 little available capacity in Glenelg, Marriott's Ridge, River Projected8^91 Hill & Wilde Lake, and also balances FARMs numbers ..< Utilization 99% along the way. 2 of 7 11/4/2019. 1:541 about :b. Middle Schools SAAAPwas supposed to beguided by 3 things- overcrowding, FARMS& planning ahead. It is clear the SAAAPfor middle schools completely ignored overcrowding and planning ahead, and followed only one objective - 'do whatever it takes to balance the FARMS'. Interestingly SAAAP didn't even do a good job for FARMs. Bringing max FARMs down from 53X to 45% while this Alternative Plan brings down to 53% to 42%. "r .^. iMost Crowd* d SEtt 2020 2020; 20M 2024 Extra SAAAP 2024; IPcrtapsco 643 775 121%| 885 138% 242 "62 128%| [Murray H 662| 799 t21%| 847 128% 185 128%| J 3]Hammond 604| 702 116%| 762 126% 158 131%| 4JMountV 798: 842 106%| 940 142 125%1 SAAAP did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to reduce the overcrowding in these schools. It reassigned 62 of the potentially 242 excess students in Patapsco. It left all the potentially 185excess students in Murray and it actually moved additional students into Hammondand Mount View. So overcrowding was certainly not a criterion. And looking at these swaps and moves awayfrom underutilized schools to crowded schools it is apparent there was no planning ahead. The Alternative Plan onceagain directs moves more carefully, not doing a dingle swap and moving students away from overcrowded to underutilized schools, fixing the FARMs populations along the way. Data for Middle Schools Alternative Plan is on the next page. ..^-v^-\^^^ ^''^ - ^' 3 of 7 11/4/2019, 1:54 F about:bl The table below summarizes the entire plan for Middle Schools; Column (A) with only 195 moves in 2020 addresses the immediate overcrowding at Patapsco & Murray and fixes some of the FARMs balance; Column (B) with 1. 550 moves in 2024, brings all schools within a 959(-116X utilization range; and Column (C) shows that this results in much better distribution of FARMs with max down to 42%, Instead of 45% with SAAAP. - Polygon details at the end of this report Middle Schools Size] 2020 2020 2024 2024, Move to.. in 2020 2020X Move to.. in 2024 202'BS FARMS SAAAPlftltPlan Move I - Reduce Overcrowding in Potapsco -IAL (B) 1C) Patapsca 643 775 121» 885 13S» toBurleigh 117 119% to Dun 100 104% 17W 18» 19% Dunloggin 662 652 98» 676 102% 98» to OM 100 95» 19X 19% 19% to EM 50 OaklandMills 506[ 500 99% 516 102% 99% to EM 100 102M fS% 45% 42K Move II - Reduce Overcrowding In Murray Hill Murray Hi 11 662 799 111% 847 128% to Patuxent 78 116% 35% Patuxent 760 715 94% 682 90» 104» 114% 38» 37% 41% Move 111- Reduce Overcrowding in Mount View Mount View 798| 842 106K 940 118% 106% to Burl 100 to Glen 50 Burleigh Manor 779 806 103% 784 101% 103% to Harp 150 95% 11% 11K to WL 110 3» Harpers Choice 506 490 97% 453 90% 97% 111% 51% 34M 41% Wilde Lake 760 655 86K 730 96% 86% ge» 47X 45% 42»( Glenwood 545 S32 98% 499 92M 98» 101X 7» :olly Quarter 662, 674 102% 649 98U 102K Move IV- Reduce Overcrowding in Hammond Clari 4 of 7 11/4/2019, 1:541 about:b Elementary Schools The table below summarizesthe entire plan for Elementary Schools: Column (A)with only 392 moves In 2020; Column (B) with 2, 075 moves in 2024, brings all schools a max 119% utilization; and Column (C) shows much better distribution of FARMswith max49%, instead of 54Wwith SAAAP.- Polygon details at the endof the report EIamantary School* Size | 2020 2QZO 2024 2024|Momto.. fn 2020 2020K Move to.. in 20241 2024% FARM* SAAAP AltPIan Move f - ReducaOvercrowding in PointersRun JAL _!B)^ (C) Pointer5Run 744| 925 124% 1, 060 142% to Swans 86 113% to Swans 100 117% 3% SwansfieldES G94| 547 535 77% 79K 104% 61% 44% 46% Move 11 - Distribute Student Polulatlons in West SchoolB Dayton Oaks 675 667 99% 789 117% 99% 117% 3% 5% 3« Triadelphia Ridge 531i 542 93% 552 Sl5% 93% 104% 3K 3% ClarksviKe 5431 381 70% 364 67% 79% 76% 3% 17% 3% BushyPark 7441 597 80% 530 71% 80% 71» 3% 3% Usbon 5271 4S4 92% 523 99% 92% 99% 12% u» 12% Move HI - Populate ES43 Hammond 653 618 95% 696 107% S6% to Boilman 50 99% 25% 25% 25% Bollman Bridge 666 683 103% 765 115% 103% toES43 200 100% 51% 51% 49% Fulton 826 1, 009 122% 1, 070 130% to Clarks 50 116% to ES43 115 110% 5% 5% 5% 2026 ES43 600 0% 53% 34% Move fV- DistributeFARMs populations in Laurat German Crossing 735 826 112% 861 117% 119% to Laurel 200 90% 18% 18% Forest Ridge 713 678 95% 740 104% w% to Laurel 104% 34% 34% 34% Laurel Woods 640 556 87% 550 87% to Bollman 50 105% 61% 49% 49% Move V ^Reduce Qvercrowding inWaverlv 'Waverly 788 886 112% 918 116% 112% 116% 3% Manor Woods 681| 624 92% 607 89% 92% 89% 8» West Friendship 414| 426 103% 532 129% 103% to Long 60 114% 6% 6% Centennial Lane 6471 715 111% 741 115% 111% to Run 50 107% 6% 6% Running Brook 515| 468 91% 583 113% 91% to Long 50 113% 52X 51% 48% Longfel low 512| 438 86% 474 SQ%i 86% to Bryant 50 104% 51% 52% 46% Bryant Woods 361| 451 125% 489 133% I to Atho! 53 110% toCIemens 100 ioe?i 50% 48% 49% Clemens Crossing 521| 548 105% 620 119% I 10S%| to Steve n 50 105%| 13% 10% 19% to Cradel 50 119%| Atholton 424| 461 109% 444 105%| 121%| to Steve n 100 100% I 15M 25% 31% to Cradel 10 Cradle rack 39B| 460 116% 473 119%| 116%| to Gi[ford 170 91%| 55% 51%| 49% iuifford 465| 367 364 79% I U5K| 46X 43%| 47%, MovaVI - RaduceOvercrowding In Johns Southwards >t Johns Lane 612 726 11S% 787 129% 119% to Northf 60 119% 10% Morthfield 700 759 824 118%, 108% toTliun 50 119% 11% 11% 11% 'hunderHill 5091 508 100% 46G 92K| 100% toTalbot 10 21% 37% 20% 'albott Springs 540| 465 409 76K| 73% sox 46%| 49% itevens Forest 399| 414 104% 435 109% I toAthoI 63 to Atholton 100 106% 54%| 49% VloveVII - RaduceOverNOwdlngin HaHltield HoflifieId Station 732 923 126% 870 119% toVetrans 70 117% 109% 24% 24%| 24%, veterans 799 822 103% 801 lOOftS 112% 109%i 21% 22»| 21%| Waterloo 663| 548 83% 508 77% 83% S4%| 24X 44%| 28%| Phelps Luck 597| 566 95% S84 Sffii toJeffers 70 83% 74%| 63% 36%| 48%| JeffersHlll 421| 413 98% 389 92% 115% 109%1 36% 34%| 39%| lchester 584| 598 102% 641 llOVn 102%| llo%| 3% 3%| Worthington 515| 458 89% 482 96% 5% \flove VIK - Distribute Student Population Batween North Eut Schools tockbum 6091 593 638 106% 97% 105% [Ikridge 760| 893 118% 926 122% 118% to Ducket 200 96% 33% 32% 33% Ducketts Lane 694| 569 82% 600 8SK 82% to Hanover 50 1Q8% 55% 49%; Hanover Hills 810| 723 697 92« 33% 37%; 34% MBV W- Diitribute Studant Population Bntuwn NorthJastSdiool»_ . el lows Spring 751 767 102% 867 115% 102% to Deep R 150 35% 17% 17%: leep Run 750 682 91% 786 105% 91% to Waterloo 50 118% 55% 53% 49%! 26, 5121 25, 784 97% 27, 000 102%|Total Movas 392 Total Moves Z.OTC 5 of 7 11/4/2019, 1:541 about:bl Polygon Data Updating this p!an with polygon data has further reduced the number of moves required to achieve the Utilization & FARMS objectives, as can be seen in the HS, MS and EStables above. This is because polygons have been selectively targeted that offer the most impact to FARMs. (Provided they are adjoining to receiving schools) Just like SAAAP, this Alternative Plan is driven entlreiy by Utilization & FARMS numbers. Meanwhile there is feedback on social media that such data driven plans sometimes overlook the ground realities like communities getting split; separation by the highway; poor road connectivity; distance etc. While numbers are important, these community considerations might also be important. The good news is that since the Alternative Plan delivers results ver/ efficiently with minimum moves, it therefore has room to add redundant moves, or pick alternative polygons to fix things on the ground. Even by doing so it will remain much more efficient than SAAAP. The polygons proposed to be moved by the Alternative Plan in 2020 are: Sending Receiving ff of Students , Polygons Proposed for Reassignment Mt Hebron HS Mamott's Ridge HS 135 162, 1162, 2161 Centennial HS Wilde Lake HS 52 147 Wilde Lake HS River Hill HS 86 135, 1174, 2135, 2174 Howard H5 Oakland Mills HS 142 65, 1065, 2065, 67, 311 Howard HS Long Reach HS 94 78, 86, 2087, 3087 Patapsco MS Burleigh Manor MS 117 159, 1159, 1034, 2034, 34 Murray Hill MS Burleigh Manor MS 78 121, 1121 Pointers ES Stansfleld ES 103 64, 11Z9 Fulton ES Clarksville ES 50 112, 2112 Bryant Woods ES Atholton ES 53 1133, 4133, 5133 Stevens Forest ES Atholton E5 60 2062 Hollifield Station ES Veterans ES 70 105, 1105 Phelps Luck ES Jeffers Hill ES 30 70 The Alternative Plan is proposing 35 Polygons be moved in 2020 (HS+MS+ES) with 1, 095 students, while SAAAP is proposing 287 Polygons be moved in 2020 (HS+MS+ES) moving 7, 170 students The difference between the two numbers nothing short of shocking 2024 Polygons: SAAAP offers no visibility into the moves it has planned for 2024. It only shows 2020 moves. The Alternative plan has been fully built out to a polygon level through 2024 for High Schools. It will take 39 additional polygon moves in 2024 mostly to populate HS13 which will complete the HS Plan. That plan can be provided on request however this Alternative Plan already includes summary school level data that is indicative of the 2024 polygon data. MS and ES have not yet been built out to a polygon level, but this Alternative Plan already includes ES and MS school level data indicative of 2024 polygons, thereby already offering more insight into the 2024 plan than has been shared by SAAAP 6 of 7 11/4/2019, 1:541 about:bl Conclusion There 15 no easier way to say it "SAAAP just misses the mark". The alternate proposal clearly shows that much better outcomes can be achieved with far less disruption. There is no justification for the Board of Education to accept SMAP. SAAAP had 3 guiding principles: 1) Reduce Overcrowding; 2) Balance FARMs and 3) Plan ahead. This document shows that SAAAP hasfailed to deliveron all three. SAAAPcompletely Ignoredovercrowding, leaving that problem for another day and as a result did not even carefully plan ahead. That will mean undoing a number ofthe proposed moves in a 2024 when additional capacity comes available. And when it comes to FARMS... The big debate on Social Media isthat SAAAPis pro-integration, pro-equity because FARMS balancing is really what SAAAP Is all about. The facts are quite the opposite. It is the Alternative Plan that outshines SAAAPin Integrationwith 49% max FARMsdown from 68%,while SAAAP bring down FARMs only to 54%. Public testimonies are creating divisions in the community, while there's absolutely no case for SAAAP. SAAAP Alternative Plan Moves 16,000 6, 219 2020 Polygon Moves 287 35 Max Utilization 138% 119% Max FARMS 54% 49% MS MS ES MS MS ES 2020 Moves 2,215 1, 351 3, 194 508 195 392 2024 Moves 3,000+ 1, 500+ 3, 100+ 1,499 1, 550 2, 075 Double Moves 502 To East . 1, 015 Swaps Unknown 0 Max 2020 Utilization 136% 130% 121% 119% 119% 119% Max 2024 Utilization 138% 128% 121% 117% 112% 119% Max FARMS 42% 45% 54% 41% 42% 49 Estimated since actual data is not available SAAAP utilized consultants and took months of effort to put together. While this Alternative Plan is a quick back of the envelop calculation compiled over a few days, and then a few more for Polygon data. This quickly put together Alternative Plan does not claim to be the only right way to do It, but it has exposed serious weaknesses in SAAAP making the case far a different, much better approach. In light of this SAAAP should be paused by the BOE while alternative plans are evaluated. SumeetSingh Resident of Polygon 3176 7 of 7 11/4/2019, 1:54 P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinl [External] My Support to Dr. Martirano's Plan Karen Jung I have been a bystander in the midst of uproar in respects to the proposed redistricting plan for 20-21 school year. However, I feel very strongly now that I should make my voice heard in reference to Dr. Martirano's proposal to have socio-economic balance in the Howard County School System. My two young children currently attends Forest Ridge Elementary School where we have no dramatic impact as the school is well-balanced in all areas considered. Now, the two other proposal (Mello and Wu) is out for consideration which does NOT address the Dr. Martirano's concern for Socio-Economic aspects. Both Mello and Wu's plans are trying to appease the entitled community of Maple Lawn and River Hill, but making unnecessary waves and changes for the middle to low income families, not addressing the true balance of Socio-Economic factor. These plans were not scrutinized enough to be considered as options like Dr. Marirano's plan was... and does not specifically give FARM rate change for those entitled schools communities. In my mind, it is very shady approach, and trying to avoid the loudest complainers by giving them what they want. Howard County Public Schools have been known for their equality and inclusiveness for all with different cultural, economical and social backgrounds. However, I am experiencing it otherwise as I see more and more preference/favoritism going toward the communities with higher income. It was apparent to me when my kids went to the Summer program offered by HCPSS, when all children in different venue suffered in heat in non-air conditioned bus, while only bus offering the A/C was the bus that stops at Maple Lawn Community. As a resident and parent of Howard County, I fully support Dr. Martirano's plan to go forward as planned, and oppose the alternative solutions that are not fully vetted as thoroughly as the original plan. I hope the community and educators come together to teach the children what education truly means. Public School education and resources should be offered with equal attention and consideration regardless of their background, race, and income. No community should feel entitled to send their children to certain school because they deserve better;?). Please have them send their kids to Private School, instead of bashing certain schools and attending children, calling them with horrible names. Thank you for listening to my concern. Karen. I of] 11/4/2019, 1:53 P| https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] CCES to SES proposal Elwood Buck It is evident that you spent considerable time on your plan and I appreciate the effort that went into it. Our community has a negative effect on FARMS numbers, the move creates a small feed. andour current elementary school is notovercrowded. Previouslythe proposed middle and high school moves were not made so I am unable to speak to them with the same level of detail. However, please ensure our community is not moving when it does nothing to address capacity or socioeconomic considerations. Thank you! -Elwood Buck Sent from myiPhone of 1 11/4/2019, 1:52P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' [External] Nothing changed. Chol Pak of 1 11/4/2019. 1:52 https://outlook. ofFice. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplmk' [External] Thank you for your hard work and listened to our voice from Pointers United Xiaoshi Wang I am writing this letter would like to express my great appreciation on your hard work, especially Ms. Mallo and Dr. Wu. You are working day and night to resolve this challenge puzzle. I also feel really appreciated that Pointers United voice is being heard by BOE members. Our 500 signatures petition requests to keep us together in neighborhood schools, Gladly, both Ms. Mallo's plan and Dr. Wu's plan keep polygon 129, 1129, 64, 1064 together either in Pointers Run Elementary School or Clarksville Elementary School. Thankyou! Our kids in polygon 129, 1129, 64 and 1064 have demonstrated every day that we are able to walk to PRESand bike to CES. I live in Polygon 1129, the closest polygon to PRES,the distance between the bus stop to PRESis only 0.9 mile! Under the superintendent proposal, if we are redistricted to Swansfield Elementary School, it is 4 miles, 2 villages and 5 major traffic lights awayfrom my home. Please do not force us bussing to Swansfield Elementary School. I knew you have considered our voice, please keep your decision and keep us in community school till the end of the redistricting process. Thank you very much. Best, Xiaoshi Wang Polygon 1129 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 1:51 https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] POLYGON 159 AND 1159 Heather Dalwadi First of all, thank you for your service and time spent working on these very challenging matters. As a parent of two children at SJLES, I understand that something must be done to help relieve the over-crowding at our wonderful elementary school. However, I have concerns about your most recent plan which will essentially isolate our two small polygons from attending feeder schools with their peers. It is my understanding that our two small polygons will be the ONLY children attending Burleigh Manor and then back to Mt. hlebron. They will have no peers at all upon attending Burleigh Manor and then, to make matters worse, will be an isolated pocket going from their middle school back to HS. This is during their formative years, and I have real concerns that not only will our children not end up going to Mt. Hebron, they will be redistricted once again to HS 13. Please give some thought and consideration in keeping our wonderful Valleymede neighborhood together. Please consider moving the already divided Mt. Hebron neighborhood, to help keep ours together. Sincerely, hleather Dalwadi lofl 11/4/2019, 1:51 https://outlook. ofRce. coiTi/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Oppose DrWu's updated plan Li Li I^am Li Li living in Ellicott City (polygon 2148) and a mom ofa4th grader in Northfield ; School. 1 was informed that_our school polygons (polygons 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) are proposed to be moved to Running Brook ESand Wilde Lake MS in yoiir updated plan made public last night. J-stroBg!y_QBP"se this plan for the followins reasons: l_Longer commute for the kids In your proposal, you singled out the polygons north ofRt 108,west of Rt 29 and eastof Columbia Roadto feedto RunningBrook ESand Wilde Lake MS. We live in KingscupCourt. Ourcurrent' sdiools are^Northfield ESand Dunloggin MS.They are about 0. 7 miles'from NorthfieldES. Literally, Kingscup^Courtis within walking zone ofNorthfield and Dunloggin MS. There is also a pedestrianTine crossing Columbia anda lot kidsgo to school through HemlockCone Waycommunity to the schools. Running Brook ES and Wilde LakeMS are 3.2 miles and4. 4 miles from wherewe live which makes "walking to school" impossible. Being moved to Running brook, our kids will need more time commute daily. Parents will need extra time sending them to andback from school in casethey have after-school events or activities. Longercommute alongthe busy Rt 29 andColumbia Road increases thetraffic safety concerns forthe kids. It also increases the burden ofthe already deteriorating traffic in Howard county. Theonly transportation thekids can rely on is school busing. This will requestincreased budget for bus transportation, which unnecessarily impose the tighten budget ofthe school system. 2. splitting community and breakingour kids' social network Wehave been living in_Ellicott City foralmost 10years. My 9-yearold daughter hasher social network with her fri ends in the Search area and in Dorsey Northfield. She is supposed to go to middle'school' with her fri Moving to Wilde Lake she has to be ends^together. MS, separated from her friends''Hvmg on theother side of Columbia Rd (also belonging to Dorsey Search which is fed to DunlogginaccordinK to JenMallo's proposal) andwill feel isolatedpsychologically. ?-.'.Thecha"ges cameout in thevery lastminute a"dhas not been fiilly communicated to thepublic. It lacks the same dueprocess asthe previous proposals. It also doesnot receive fair enoueh nublic ir from those communities that will be afiFected. 4. The changes lack detailed supponing materials about facility utilization, such as fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. of 2 11/4/2019, 1:50 PI https://outlook. ofKce. com/maiI/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink' For these reasons. I strongly oppose Dr Wu's proposal. Thank you vei-y much for your attention Li Li 4512 Kingscup Court EIIicottCity, MD 21042 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 1:501 about:bl Paul DiMarco and Lyndall Jordan 1751 Underwood Road Sykesville, MD 21784 October 31, 2019 Howard County Board of Education 10910 Clarksvllle Pike (Route 108) Ellicott City, MD 21042 Re: Redistricting- Route 32 corridor Poison 232 hlonorable Members of the Board of Education, We respectfully request that the Board take a closer look at Polygons231, 232, and 1231, alongthe Route 32 corridor. These polygons naturally belong to West Friendship Elementary School (WFES), Mount View Middle School (MVMS), and Marrlotts Ridge High School (MRHS. ) MVMS Is directly across the street from MRHS. They share amenities, and fields, for sport practices. Many students walk from one school to the other for activities or to meet up with siblings. Due to the natural geographic boundaries of Polygon 232 with 1-70 to the south and farmland to the west, our children would be isolated from their community with movement at any school level. It would also create a small, unsupported feed. It would also make transportation times unnecessarily long and dangerous when forced to travel further along Route 32. We have reviewed and support Ms. Mallo's plan which aims to reduce some of the impending student population growth at Mount View (and Marrlotts Ridge) by moving polygons 1171 and 171, which is the new development area by Kiwanis park, out of those schools. Moving polygon 171 and 1171 with new development makes the most sense. The development is not complete and would be efficient in transportation due to the higher density in the neighborhood. Families would be making informed decisions about schools and transportation times when purchasing their new homes. Once again, we urge you to keep Polygon 232, 231 and 1231 at WFES, MVMS and MRHS. Sincerely, Paul and Lyndall Pofygon 232 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 1:501 https://outIook. ofBce. com/maiI/redistricting@hcpss. org/deepIml! [External] Fwd: Keep Rockburn Together; Polygon 3087 Kathleen Pukacz Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Kathleen Pukacz Dear Howard County Board of Education: My name is Kathleen Pukacz and I live in Polygon 3087, aka "Lyndwood" which is within the Rockburn Community in WestElkridge. Myfamily moved to Elkridgefrom Baltimore City four years ago with our then one-year-old son; not for the specific schools we were assigned to, but because of what the Rockburn Community had to offer us that Baltimore City never could: . A safe network of sidewalks and walkable streets . A community grocery store, gym and restaurants, all that we can walk to . Rockburn Park . A central community pool (Watermont Swim Club) . Convenient accessto major highwaysfor commuting . And most importantly, wonderful neighbors who truly care about each other and the Rockburn Community (which has really been evident during the 2017 and 2019 redistricting processes) Where is the Rockburn Community: 1 of 3 11/4/2019, 1:49 P https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink The Rockburn Community is bound by major roadways and a park; 1-95to the east, Route 100to the south and Rockburn Branch Parkto the north. I encourage you to drive down Marshalee Drive to the east taking a left onto Montgomery Road, to get a feel for these boundaries and how they shape the Rockburn Community. There is nothing about our community that makes us contiguous with any communities that are south of Route 100 and east of 1-95. In response to then BOEChair CindyVallencourt's request in 2017for communities to define their boundaries, we developed the below which should be considered as the boundaries of the Rockburn Community. 2019 Redistricting: As you are aware, Policy 6010 requires the Board, Superintendent/Designee and the AAC to consider the impact of Community Stability in the review or development of any school attendance area adjustment plan. We 2 of 3 11/4/2019, 1:49 P https://outlook. ofRce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink I hope you would understand my shock when yesterday Dr. Wu recommended that Polygons 87, 2087 and 3087 ("Lyndwood" in its entirety) be split from the Rockburn Community and moved from Howard High School to Oakland Mills when the rest of the Rockburn Community was proposed to move from Howard High School to Long Reach High School. In doing so, you would create a feed of only 83 students from Elkridge Landing Middle School to Oakland Mills High School, well below the 15% feed consideration in Policy 6010. I ask that any moves you make for us, that you do so considering the Rockburn Community as a whole. Rockburn Feeds: With two exceptions (Polygon 91 and 3091 (0 students)), Rockburn ES is a true feeder to Elkridge Landing MS and all but 22 kids from Polygon 1083 (Polygon 83 has 0 students) then move onto Howard HS. This has provided us predictability and stability in our school feeds for 20+ years. Current Feeds Polygons 44, 86, 87, 92, 299, 1086, 1087, 1091 1299, Elkridge Landing RockburnES MS Howard HS 2087, 2091, 3087, 3091, 4087) Rockburn ES Bonnie Branch MS Howard HS 91, 3091 Elkridge Landing Long Reach Rockburn ES MS HS 83, 1083 One final note is not to take the Rockburn Communities' relative silence during this redistricting process as an indication that we don't care. We do! And we want to stay together. Please, keep the Rockburn Community together. Thank you for your time and dedication to our community and our students. Kathleen Pukacz 3of3 11/4/2019, 1:49 F https;//outlook. ofRce.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deep linl [External] Concern about new school redistricting plan panyongmei@gmail. com Thu 10/31/2019 11:16 AM To: Hcpss Redistricting I just watched the video of yesterday's work session about school redistricting. Thank you BOE member for your efforts in this huge task. I've seen Dr Wu and Mrs Malta's plan but have concerns about redistricting Howard High students to Long Reach and Oakland Mills. Significantlyfrom feasibility plan, Wu and Mallo's plans move a few Rockburn Elementary polygons from Howard High to Long Reach. In Wu's plan, three polygons 87, 2087, 3087 are sent to Oakland Mills high. In this case, Rockburn ES, whose students currently go to the same Howard High, are sent to three different high schools. This way of splitting ES school and community is a big concern for me. In the feasibility plan, Rockburn ES is not affected this much. Instead, a few more polygons at south of 95 are assigned to Long reach together with a few polygons 38, 1038, 2038 and 1300that are also assigned in Dr Wu's plan. My question is, as to assignment of Howard high to long reach, the feasibility plan seems more reasonable in terms of school and community continuity, and more geographically reasonable. Is it possible to consider feasibility plan in this case? Thank you! Yongmei Pan, PhD in pharmaceutical Sciences Proud parent of HCPSS parent Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone lofl 11/4/2019, 1:48 P( https://outlook. ofRce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] OPPOSE the redistricting changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 1148) LinJing I sincerely oppose the redistricting changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) I am a two-sons mother who currently live in Polygon 1148 and was informed recently that my community will be affected in Dr. Wu's proposal updated last night and Ms. Mallo's proposal dated 10/28. The reason ofwe oppose the redistricting changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) list below: 1. The proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the comer ofMD 108 and US 29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NES which created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed change will create island for MS at 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The propsed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. 2. Changes came out in the last minute and has not beeo fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 3. The community ofPolygon 1148 are major feed ofNES and DMS. Parents who live here are highly involved in school PTA, and kids are the members of school music band and many other school clubs. We believe that your redistricting plan and others really interrupts NES and DMS school community 4. The change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. Regards, Jing Lin I ofl 11/4/2019, 1:48 F https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Redistricting Wentao Liu . The quality of our school system will going down as well. Wild Lake HS is a good example of how it worked in the past, key point is that the families and the students . schools must work together to improve our school system. not in the wayjust exchanging the schools. Thanks Wen Liu ofl 11/4/2019, 1:481 https://outlook. offlce.com/maU/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/deeplin [External] oppose the redistricting changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 1148) YenChih My family live in Polygon 1148 and was informed recently that my community will be affected in Dr. Wu's proposal updated last night and Ms. Mallo's proposal dated 10/28. I sincerely oppose the redistricting changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302)for the following reasons: First, the proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the corner ofMD 108 and US 29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NES which created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed change will create island for MS at 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The propsed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. Second, both changes came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. Third, the change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. Finally, the community ofPolygon 1148 are major feed ofNES and DMS. Parents who live here are highly involved in school PTA, and kids are the members of school music band and many other school clubs. We believe that your redistricting plan and others really interrupts NES and DMS school community Regards, Yenchih Lin lofl 11/4/2019, 1:47 P| https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Fwd: Objection to Elementary School test proposal Marisa Goyer I wasjust made aware that there is also a new proposal from Wu that moves Montgomery Meadowsfrom llchester to Waterloo, so I just wanted to clarify on my note belowthat I am opposed to any plan that moves kids from llchester to any other school. Thanks again, Marisa Goyer Forwarded message From: Marisa Goyer To Whom it May Concern: I am writing to express my objection to Jenn Mallo's proposal for the Elementary School test scenario. This proposal moves most of my neighborhood, Montgomery Meadows (polygon 1095), from llchester Elementary to Waterloo Elementary School. I have many concerns with this as follows. 1. My daughter is very active at llchester and is at an age where friendships are extremely important to her and already gets upset if she thinks that someone isn't her best friend anymore day to day. She has really enjoyed their after school programs and events. Any change for kids of that age is very difficult to adjust to. 2. She already had a very difficult time adjusting to kindergarten last year and the staff at llchester was absolutely amazing with catering to her needs and finding a plan that helped her to be successful. She now thinks of them as family and it would be traumatic and detrimental for her to be taken away from them. 3. I am one of the troop leaders for her daisy girl scout troop which is specific to llchester and they meet directly after school at llchester. This is one of manytroops (one at each grade level) that is only comprised of girls that attend llchester and would be a major problem to split them apart and come up with logistics for meeting with other schools involved. 1 of2 11/4/2019, 1:47 F https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink 4. We purchased our house specifically for the schools that it is currently districted for, which haven't changed since I was a kid. We did not expect any changesto this and there is a community here that has been together for a very long time. Our house is right across the street from llchester and is a further distance to Waterloo. llchester is a top notch school (rated 10) and Waterloo is rated a 7. I don't feel that she would have the same quality of education and staff at another school. Thanks for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Marisa Goyer 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 1:47P https://outlook.ofBce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Mallo Wu Plan - 7th Graders Will Experience a Second Redistricting Rob Levine In addition, current 7th graders in these polygons have already experienced redistricting when they were moved from Thunderhill to Northfield. They should not have to experience two redistricting before graduating from middle school. lofl 11/4/2019, 1:46 P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinl. [External] Polygon 232 Chandra Pleasetake a closer lookat the polygons along the Route 32corridor (polygon 231, 1131,and 232). Polygons 232, 231 and 1231 naturally belong to WFES, MVMSand MRHS. MVMS is iterally acrossthe street from MRHS.They share amenities, andfields for sport practices. Manystudents walkfrom one school to theother for activities orto meet up withsiblings. Due to the natural geographic boundaries of Polygon 232 with 1-70to the south and farmland to thewest, ourchildren would be secluded from their community with movement at any school level. Itwould alsocreate a small, unsupported feed. Itwould also maketransportation times unnecessarily long and dangerous when forced to travel further along Rt. 32. Ms. Mallo's plan aims to reduce some ofthe impending student population growth at Mount View(and Marriotts Ridge) by moving polygons 1171 and 171,which isthe newdevelopment area by Kiwanis park, out of those schools. Moving polygon 171 and 1171 with new development makesthe most sense. Thedevelopment is not complete andwould be efficient intransportation dueto the higherdensity in the neighborhood.Families would bemaking hformed decisionsabout schools and transportation times whenpurchasing their new homes. Once again, I urge you to keep Polygon 232, 231 and 1231 at WFES, MVMS and MRHS. Sincerely, Chandra Sabbavarpu Polygon 232 I I httE//www. linkedin. com/in/chandrasabbayareu 11/4/2019, 1:46 PI https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Oppose Howard County Redistricting Proposal Purva Dublay I live in polygon 2148.These comments are with respect to the most recent Mallo and Wu proposals as posted on 10/31/2019. Please listen to us. We are not the loudest voices. We are a strong, supportive and extremely diverse community who works very hard to support all our schools. Please keep our community together. We want all our schools to succeed, but we also want you to listen to all our voices not just the loudest. Please reconsiderthe moves for Dorsey Searchat NES/DMS/WLHS.The proposal splits the Dorsey's Search neighborhood in half moving our neighborhood's polygons (148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148) from NES and DMS to RBES and WLMS. These proposals would remove most of the affordable housing that currently attends NES and DMS-ln fact all of the townhomes and condominiums in Dorsey Search are impacted and both proposals leave only single family homes at Dorsey's Search going to NES/DMS, Additionally this creates a microfeed of approximately 4% going NES-DMS- WLHS. Our community has worked very hard in the last 8 years to make our community stronger and more walkable.We now havethree safe areasfor crossing Columbia road, which now means for manyof the proposed polygons (especially 1148 and 2148) the DMS and NES are quite walkable taking about 10-15 minutes to arrive by walking. This is especially true for the middle school feed, our kids can attend afterschool activities and walk safely home if they remain at DMS. This will not be the case at WLMS. Thank you for your consideration Thank you, Purva Dublay ofl 11/4/2019, 1:461 https://outlook. ofSce. com/maiI/redismcting@hcpss. org/deeplinI( [External] open letter addressing redistricting issues Stella Averbukh I believethat you havethe bestintentions to help kids thatrequire ourhelp andattention but have the wrong approach to achieving this goal. In almost 50 years, I haveyet to live in a place where all people are socially aiideconomically equal and HowardCounty is no exception. Unfortunately, none ofthe proposed redistricting planswill fixthis divide. Havmg first handexperience with the largest socioeconomic experiment in recent history, the Soviet Union, where I lived for the first 21 years ofmy life, I advise you to learn from past precedent. You caii't forcefully take something from one group ofpeople and give it to another and expect it to succeed. It will fail miserably - the same way the Soviet Union did. 27 years agoI moved to theUnited Stateswith the promise ofdemocracy. But, thisproposed redistricting plan is anything but democratic. You have a very significant group ofHoward County residents who strongly oppose the plan andyou continuously chooseto disregardthis population. Personally, I wouldprefer a county wide referendum. Such a vote would leave no room for doubt and would instill a necessary sense of democracy into this process. Your actions also lack common sense. It's common sense for children to attend the school closest to theirhome. It'scommon senseto let childrenwalk to schoolif they are within walking distance. It's common sense to reduce the busing distaiices in order to combat climate change. Additionally, my vastproject management experiencetells me thatwhen you have such a large scaleproject andvery little expertisein the area, you can'tsucceed. Theproposed redistricting planlacks of 3 11/4/2019, 1:45 P https://outlook. o£Hce. com/mail/Tedistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinli detail andhas many gray areasand gaps. Youneed to addressthe lowest-achieving schools first and do so incrementally. So howcan you address overcrowding and socioeconomic inequality? Instead ofpouring money into additional buses, spend it on: Renovating current schools Building new schools Allowing kids from overcrowded schools to go to schools that have capacity Adding advanced programs like IB and AP to school curriculuins Providing additional funding to under-achieving schools Extendingtutoring and mentorship programs to tlie students who need them Establishing scholarships Providing workshops to educate parents on the best ways to motivate their children If the available funds arenot enoughto tackle the above improvements, I would notbe against a reasonabletax increase for the highest earningpercentages ofcounty residents - aslong asthe county is transparent about how this money is spent. Other sources of revenue could be: 2 of 3 11/4/2019, 1:45 https://outlook. ofRce. coni/maiI/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink Increasingdevelopment fees in the county Starting coiiununity foundations to raise funds directly Working with local companies to donate directly Reaching out to Columbia natives, such as Edward Norton, for donations or for event proceeds that will go directly to school capital expenses I'm asking you to be open minded, to have the best interests of all Howard County kids in mind, and to be true representatives of all residents. I'm asking you to avoid hasty and illogical decisions. Respectfully, Stella Averbukh 3 of 3 11/4/2019, 1:45 F Becky Hadeed 12443 Petrillo Drive Highland, MD 20777 Polygon 1114 October 31, 2019 To the Elected Officials on the Board of Education, First, thank you to all of you for your hard work and passion on this issue. The truth is, you, the BOE is stuck making impossible decisions that will necessarily disappoint and anger some, due to circumstances out of your control. It takes courage to be in yourshoes. It took particular courage and effort for Ms. Mallo and Mr. Wu to come up with plans oftheir own, knowing they would be put under a microscope. So again, thank you. As plans are being adjusted, I wanted to humbly ask that you reconsider moving Polygon 1114 and related polygons out of Reservoir High School and overto River Hill. Wewould like to stay at Reservoir High School. I ask you all to consider the following: 1. Ourpolygons are a tiny subset of kids that are not receiving continuity from one level to the next. We got from Pointers Run to Lime Kiln, while the vast majority of PRES goes to Clarksville. Then, we are jerked away from that community, back over to River Hill, under all of these plans. 2. Mileage from our home to Reservoir is 3. 1 miles and mileage to River Hill is 5. 4 miles, but that difference does not begin to describe the difference in travel times. Traveling with trafficfor 3 miles up and down Route 108 is a huge headache- to the point that, as a family of 6, it will begin to affect how easily our kids can participate in extras. In addition, our lives are far more oriented to 216, Maple Lawn, and the Reservoir Community than to River Hill. River Hill is not at all a community school for us. 3. Finally, I would argue that this change is not even necessary at this time. I think most of us will agreethat this iteration of redistricting will be temporary. Given the pressures on our community, we will all be back in this exact spot in a very few short years. Considering Reservoir is not currently over capacity, and you are moving such a very fewof us out (especially with the exemption ofJuniors and Seniors!) can'twe just wait until next time and see what actual capacities and issues have manifested? In conclusion, forthese 3 reasons, I askthat you keep polygon 1114and the rest of our surrounding communities at Reservoir High School. Again,thank you for your courage and yourconsideration. I do notenvy your jobs. Becky Hadeed Polygon 1114 [email protected] https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Chao Wu's plan - great alternative Brian Grodsky Brian K. Grodsky Professor and Associate Chair Department of Political Science University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) lofl 11/4/2019, 1:44 F https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deep]ink [External] YC Lin I live in Polygon 1148 and was informed recently that my community will be affected in Dr. Wu's proposal updated last night and Ms. Mallo's proposal dated 10/28. I sincerely oppose the changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) for the following reasons: 1. The proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the corner of MD 108 and US 29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NES which created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed change will create island for MS at 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The proposed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. 2. Both changes came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 3 The change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. 4. The community of Polygon 1148 are major feed of NES and DMS. Parents who live here are highly involved in school PTA, and kids are the members of school music band and many other school clubs. We believe that both redistricting plan really interrupts NES and DMS school community. Regards, Guo Zhao I of 1 11/4/2019, 1:43 F https://outlook.ofRce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplmk [External] Polygon 1171 g. satish gajam satish I just want to share our whole Westmount community concern which falls under Polygon 1 171 that we do not support the redistricting ofour polygon for High Schoofrom Marriotts Ridge High Schoolto GlenElg High school. Below are the main concerns for it: 1. School is very far compared to Marriotts Ridge High School. The kids will be spending a lot of time commuting backand forth to school than spending valuabletime for studying. 2. Our polygon has a lot of Asians and we are aware of the racial discrimination incidents that occurred at GlenElg High School and are worried for our children. Please consider our concerns and be proactive in not thinking to relocating the high school for our kids. Thank you, -Satish 1171 Polygon Resident from Ellicott City of 1 11/4/2019, 1:43 P Dear HCPSS BOE- I am writing in opposition to ChaoWu's and Jen Mallo's proposed redistricting plan. am in polygon 276. The proposed move of polygons 276, 302, 148, 1148, and 2148from Northfield Elementary to Running Brook and from Dunloggin Middle to Wilde Lake Middle removes nearly all if not all affordable housing from NES.These polygons include townhomes and apartments for the most part. Withthe climate of focusingon FARMsrates, this seem contrary to those ideals. This move also splits the Dorsey'sSearch community in halfand moves students who are able to walkto DMS/NES much further away. These moves also take an already small feed (11%) from DMS to WLHS to even smaller one (without data, I'm not sure what it would be, but I'd guess less than 5%as it would ONLY be a single family homes off Gray Rock in Dorsey's Search). The move of polygons 111, 1111, and 2111 from DMS to OMMS also reduces the feed from DMS to WLHS. This is counter to Policy 6010. If more space is needed at DMS, I propose moving a larger group from DMS to WLHS to avoid the tiny feed issue ifthe move ofstudents is unavoidable. NESis not a critical point for overcrowding and not projected to be at that point. Moving students from NESis unnecessary. Finally, I also wanted to note that the BOEreally wants to even attempt to fixthe overcrowding issue and imbalances with FARM rates, they should consider erasing ALLthe lines/getting rid of current polygons and starting from scratch. Move the massesif needed. Then, everyone is in the same boat and the community is more likely to come together as everyone would be in it together instead of the notion of being happytheir neighborhoodis safe even though that means someone else is moving. Student bodies would be totally different and staff/students/families would all be adjusting, not just a handful of kids. Pinpointing and shifting polygons is only going to upset one neighborhood after another (I've seen this over and over and over and over now...). Shake up everything if a change is deemed to be needed or fightfor changesto COMARthat give local control to individual cities/communities asthat is what it seems people actually want. I'm sure you're tired. We're tired. Something much different needsto be done as this isn't working. Thank you for your consideration. Best, Melissa Kistler Polygon 276 https://outlook. o£Gce. com/maiI/redistricting@hcpss. org/deepIink [External] Opposing Redistricting Proposal (Polygon 1148) Hua Yang I live in Polygon 1 148 and was informed recently that my community will be affected in your proposal updated last night and Ms. Mallo's proposal dated 10/28. I oppose the changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) for the following reasons: 1 The proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the comer of M D 108 and US 29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NESwhich created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed change will create island for MS at 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The proposed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. 2 The change came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 3. The change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e.g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. Regards, Hua Yang 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 1:41 F https://outlook. o£Gce.com/maiI/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Fwd: Commenting on all three proposed plans Kathryn Coleman Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Kathryn Coleman Moving polygons 159 and 1159 creates a very small feed at the ES level. It also splits a long established neighborhood (Valley Mede) in half and not even in a logical way. I believe the desire to move these polygons is largely driven by the future development of "Bethany Glen" at 99 & Bethany Lane, which will be located in these polygons. I suggest you create a new polygon and send those kids who move into Bethany Glen to MWES. This is logical as they would be bussed right along with the other children who now reside on and off of Bethany and are already bussed to MWES. Keep 159 and 1159 at SJLESand PMS. Kathryn Coleman 3105 Brookmede Road Ellicott City, MD 21042 Sent from my iPhone 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 1:41 [ October 31, 2019 Dear BOE, Polygon 127 has truly been through enough. For years we were in a tiny feed situation (which was like being redistricted at every level) which last year's redistricting finally corrected, and now Jen Mallo's plan threatens to imdo that and make it even worse than before 2018. The superintendent's plan (while unpopular withus) at least kept our feeds strong. Our current 6th-9th graders have had zero stability, first in small feeds, then redistricted in 2018, and now potentially either redistricted again or made to stay at a gutted and repopulated AHS. Whether it's Atholton or River Hill for us, wejust want to be in a strong feed. Either keep more CMS polygons at Atholton (far preferable) or send us to River Hill with everyone else. Regarding the gutting and repopulating ofAHS, there should be some sort of cap on what percentage can be moved from any one school, and it should be more like 25%, not 42%. No one school commimity should take the brunt of this process. Dr. Wu's plan seems the least dismptive and cheapest overall, especially considering that it this process will have to be done all over againwhen HS13 opens. Mary Martinson Polygon 127 https://outIook. ofFice. com/mail/redisn-icting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Polygon 2054 Chris Kennedy I understand why we are moving out of CRES in some plans, do not want to be like so many other residents, selfishly yelling to not touch MY polygon. The BOE has to look at the county as a whole and to hyperfocus on individual polygons because of loud voices will likely result in the worst possible situation. That said, I strongly want for my child, my family, and my neighborhood to stay at CRES. I acknowledge that it makes sense to move us - there's alreadya busthat comes to pick us up, where most of the school walks. The school is overcrowded and someone has to move. IFwe are moving out of CRES, please consider moving more students with us. It will be a very small number of kids from our grade under the Sup's and Malta's plan. Atholton ES may be nearby "asthe crow flies" but it is separated by BLPand the Little Patuxent. It may aswell be in a completely different zip code (in fact, it is). Our neighborhood is a part of Owen Brown. We go to the DasherGreen pool, we shop at the village center, we walk to the lake. There's no connection at all between us and All View/Macgills Common. Thanks for taking the time to read. I wish you all well in the coming weeks as you make these difficult decisions. Please be mindful of all the children that are currently suffering due to inequities and capacities, even if they are not yelling as loud as those who wish to maintain the status quo. Best, Christopher Kennedy Cradlerock ES parent Polygon 2054 lofl 11/4/2019. 12:55 P https://outIook.ofBce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Redistricting Plan 10/30 Cheryl LynnJenkins I want to thank you for your time spent on this difficult process of redistrirting. wanted to reach out after new plans were shared last night to ask that the communities newly impacted by this proposal that have not been in any early proposals until now have a chance to be heard. The two polygons 153 and 1153 are being moved of BMMS where not in any earlier plan. While the proposed shift is to another great MS, this neighborhood has had a long standing connection to BMMS. My own daughter has thrived in the diversity of this school where their motto is to create unity for all students. I would hope she could finish out her MS years at this school. Middle adolescence is difficult and expecting them to go to a new MS for one year will be very stressful. I hope that should this plan stand you will make a consideration for the eighth grade class. The school is so close to our home that we could even shoulder the burden of transportation so they can finish their year there. Thank you again for your dedication to Howard County and all its students. Cheryl Lynn Jenkins of 1 11/4/2019, 12:55 F https://outlook. ofBce.com/[email protected]/deeplinl [External] Redistricting Testimony Svenja Bauer I 1 attachments (18 MB) BOE.pdf; Good Morning, My name is Svenja Bauer and I live in Polygon 2087. My husband and have four children one in day care, one in Elementary School, one in Middle School, and one in hligh School. I am writing to you with the hopes that it is not too late to change your minds with regards to the redistricting. Over the past few months I have watched people attack each other on social media and via various news outlets. I have watched neighboring communities become enemies willing to throw one another under the bus to avoid being the ones having to send their kids to a new school. I have watched racial tensions build and become the number one topic of heated discussions where there were never any issues before. I have seen our county, in which we preach civility, turn into a place where parents protest against each other's plans and proposals. None of this is new... ! have seen this all before, year after year, as if any of this will provide an actual solution to the overcrowding. Year after year I appeal to the BOE to stop and think and instead look to the Howard County Executives with the hopes they will stop allowing the excessive building of apartment complexes, townhouses, and single family homes on every undeveloped brush-filled piece of land we have left, and will instead fund new schools in our county. Here we are again, this year is no different than any of the others. I am saddened and tired of looking at my kids' faces at the dinner table with fear and worry about having to attend a new school next year. I listen to my now junior (even though he will be allowed to continue at his current high school as a senior) tell me there are only so many parking passes for seniors and that he is worried he will not be able to get to school without the option of riding the bus as both my husband and I work. I watch my younger children look at me with fear in their eyes over having to leave the friends they have made for many years now. I hate that this is something Howard County families face year after year. Is this what we want to teach our kids??? I love our county and have lived here most pf my adult life. We chose our neighborhood because it made for convenient work commutes for both my husband and I. We rented here first, worked hard until we were able to buy our own home, and have fallen in love with the community and teachers at our children's schools. I love our county, but having to feel like the things we love about living here the most could be ripped away from us every single fall, makes it really hard to want to continue living here. When we are ranked as a county in the top ten list of U. S. School Systems I am sure nobody thinks that our children's faces are filled with fear and worry every fall due to the Super Intendant proposing a new plan and the BOE considering redistricting. Yet this seems to have become our reality... and instead of building new schools as a solution, i-t seems acceptable to have us spend our precious family time rallying and writing up testimony. Somewhere it seems that things have gone way wrong here and I am not sure who to look to at this point to make them lof2 11/4/2019, 12:48 Pl https://outlook. of5ce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink right. That being said, I thank our fellow neighbor Scott Saramafor drafting plans like the one attached to thisemail which supports the major highwaysas corridors for separation and leaves our neighborhood at the schools it has been zoned to for years. I am hoping that the BOE can consider this proposal as well as my testimony and can agree that this is the best option for Polygon 2087. I know that your time is precious as well and that you are not the "enemy", but are simply doing yourjob. I appreciate all your efforts and consideration. Respectfully, Svenja Bauer 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 12:48 E In responseto BOEChair Cindy Vaillancourt's request for communitiesto definetheir boundaries \r ft f^*, o'/ t^ '»- ^ . 1 i ^ ^ » " ^»f '^ iw/j \ Rockburn ES Elkridge Landing MS Howard HS ve c -.. If 1100% 00% 7a A".-J RES: 328 Students ELMS: 172 Students HoHS: 245 Students c et Rockburn is an Elkridge community of 9 polygons that are anchored by. Rockburn ElementarySchool Watermont Swim Club Rockburn Park Pazani's Pizza Giant Food StarBucks Fitness 19 A seriesof heavilytraveled sidewalks that connect each polygon. -fO-V 100% 00% A'.-J RES: 328 Students ELMS: 172 Students HoHS: 245 Students i le n"e ". I e »f Althoughevery community has places to driveto, notevery community has a such a rich choicein placesthey can easilywalk to likethe residents/studentsof Rockburn. We are: Dog Walkers Baby Stroller Pushers Wagon Pullers Joggers Adult/Student Bikers Fitness Walkers Ourextensive sidewalk network allows the residents of our9 polygonsto move freelyand transparentlythroughout our community. CountyExecutive Alan Kittlemanand CountyCouncilman Jon Weinsteinwalked to RockburnES this fall and started his walk where87, 1087,3087 and 4087 all meet on Bellanca Drive! The Rockburn Community requests that we be kept together at Howard High School ^ ^ 86 1086 10B7 \ 4087 2oer 299 1299 3087 87 \ 29S . 00 . SL ^ \ Subject: Optimal Choicefor Northeast Attendance Boundary Adjustments Summary: FeasibilityStudy Northeast Option #1 (FS-N01) is the optimal plan for Howard High School according to Policy 6010. It corrects a terrible, 2-polygon 9% feed from ELMS to LRHS that has existed for several years. It strengthens this small feed with neighbors and students who attended EES and ELMStogether. This was the recommended boundary adjustment of the 2017 AAC, that was well-vetted by the community. The FARMS difference between the Superintendent's Proposal (SP) and FS-N01 is within the margin of error. Supporting Facts:The SP for polygon movement from HoHS to LRHSsuffers from several issues listed below: 1. The polygons proposed to move are isolated by significant geographic barriers (see red oval). The Superintendent proposes: Howard HS Long Reach HS 233 44, 86, 87, 299, 1086, 1087, 1299, 2087, 3087. 4087 Howard h te/S- "'.' 1087 i-'A \ ' 4(1B7 69 .w Long Reach HS 0 -:". '. rt sl w, - 2W'f 37 .*'y-^ L^-07) 71 i2?IE Z'JS? 2037 82 103r> 81 HS13 fl» ^ 1 of 4 These polygons are geographically isolated from every other LRHS polygon by 1-95 on the east side and Rt 100 on the west side (thick blue lines on map). This was a main consideration for the 2017 AAC when they rejected moving polygons in this area. 2. It splits the RES feed, which has a nearly 100% feed to ELMS (excepts for two polygons, 91 and 3091. 3091 has no students). The RES/ELMS cohort then has a 100%feedtoHoHS (where they also meet back up with polygon 91). This is an ideal situation that does not have to be broken because FS-N01 does a better job following Policy 6010. 3. Currently, the EESto ELMSto High School feed is split between HoHS and LRHS, with a small ELMSfeed (9%) going to LRHS consisting of only two polygons: 43 and 1 043 (see green circle above). TH/S SMALL FEED SHOULD BE STRENGTHENED WITH STUDENTS FROM NEIGHBORING POLYGONS who all attended EES and ELMS together. 4. According to FS-N01 and SP FARMS numbers, the two plans are within the margin of error in terms of FARMS improvement to LRHS, making equity differences between the plan negligible. The FS-N01 map includes a large swath of <5% FARMS polygons that reduces the level of poverty at LRHS. These polygons are mainly east of Route 1 (See Dr. Wu's excellent FARMS map). This is why both plans scored equally in FARMS reduction at LRHS.Additional low FARMS polygons also border this proposal in the EES/ELMS attendance area, in case further adjustments are needed. FS-N01 Map: ~ ', _.. "»'S1 '.- , S , "7- yS ^--?08.8 ~L^ soai CaiaS. ^. 1085 ^ 1091 '^ . '/Y^C- -'86 ',1086; ing, rtfi.. -"1'l . 1M1 ''^d :l. ^^^.^^l-l. ^.^U39; l;1^ ^2MffJ P'.^°87 :r'^lA'_!"4t'!'4oSo40l^1404 M83 -L 87 U^^^B }^ ks " \ 1043 '"i'V "2«" JVO l2a 59 "".-. saV From: Howard HS !077i ~ ]ioo a j; To: Long Reach HS | .1298 208; 2037 torn. » -kl82 » ioaa ^^".. u82 w ."\. ;ai6 llsHS !. ^iM5 /<^C^ '"' -- fel^ . -^. 3".?^ From:Long Reach^H? 4°i* / 7 ".. !: To: Oakland Mills HS >'" 32 -% l--» 3S r^.i \ 2 of 4 Support for OSP Northeast Option #1: . First, HoHS has the largest capacity issue and this is the best option for HoHS, ELMS, RES, and EES. It is the Feasibility Study's first option for many reasons: A. It corrects a small feed of only two EES polygons going from ELMS to LRHS. B. The feed is strengthened with students that went to the same elementary and middle schools (EES and ELMS). C. It does not break RES/ELMS into more feeds and it avoids moving students geographically isolated by the 1-95 and Rt 100 barriers. D. Change in FARMS is essentially the same (according to OSPand Superintendent's reports). E. Community is strengthened F. Commute times do not change . Note: The community benefits of FS-N01 outweigh the small disadvantageof the potential risk of polygons along the Rt 1 corridor being moved twice with HS13 because the same H13 students don't get moved twice. The CURRENT students are helped far more in the short term. Fix the feed! 2. The 2017 AAC came to the same conclusion. Seetheir recommendation map below: \. ^- <. h.,. t... f. ".1. J; *< .. -^ The 2017 AAC plan was WELL-VETTED by the community because HoHS attendance issues weresuch an integral part of the discussion that year. Many people spent many hoursstudying and readingtestimony regardingthis situation and they cameto the conclusion that keeping more EES/ELMSstudents together was the best outcome for relieving HoHS attendance area problems. 3 of 4 Conclusion: When comparing the two options, the choice is clear. FS-N01 (also 2017 AAC Plan) is better for students according to Policy 6010 factors. This correction to the SP is low- hanging fruit as it has already been vetted and does not require a cascade of other changes to be made. Pleasestrengthen the ELMSto LRHSfeed by including more long-time school friends into that feed and not moving students isolated from the LRHS attendance area by 1-95 and Rt100. Policy 6010 Factors FS-WOI Facility Utilization No Significar Community Stability Qreater Bsneftt Feeds Greater Benefit Contiguous Communities Greater Benefit Frequency Reassignment Not Applicable (No student moved twice) Transportation No Significant Difference FARMS No Significant Difference Racial/Ethnic No Significant Difference Race/Ethnicity Data: American Indian Black or African Allan Hispanii Alaska Native American HighSchool Base Proposed Base Proposed Base Proposed Base Proposed | Base Proposed | Base Proposed| Base Proposed Howard HS <=5% <=5% FS-N01 17% 21% 21% 7% 7% 47% Long Reach HS <=5% 15% 3S% 20% 6 24% Howard HS <=S'i <=5W SP 17% 21% 23% <=554 <=s% 7% 7% 7% 47% 44% Long Reach HS <=5W <°5K 14% 35K 29% <^5% 20-;., isii 7% 24% 32% 4of4 https://outlook. ofHce. com/mail/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/d6epln [External] Invitation to Mallo. Mallo's plan, 3-4 times far away, across another community, across highway 95, create enclave school. Jim Iredell I just review Ms. Mallo's plan on herfacebook. She redistrict our 1007 and 7 from Hammond Middle School to Murray Hill Middle. Please search, on google map, from my home to the Murray hill mid, kids have to travel 3 times far away from the existing middle school. They have to across the other Hammond community, drive on risky farm road! Create and enclave school. We welcome Ms.Mallo visit our community to have an investigation. She redistrict our 1007 and 7 to Laurel woods elementary school. For this change. Kids have to drive on highway 216 and go across the highway 95. However, it is very dangerous for kids, since the 216 is a high traffic risk road. Trail road on the reservoir side cannot drive during snow or winter days. This is also very far away from our reservoir community. We sincerely welcome Ms. Mallo visit our community to make a practical investigation before proposingjust based oh imagination. We will warmly treat Ms. Mallo for her visit. Please contact me and we will arrange kids welcome you! Please anyone saw this email, and let her know our invitation! Thanks, Jim of 1 11/4/20)9, 12:42 P| https://outIook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deepIink [External] Polygon 181 Eun Ah Montgomery I. In Grades 6, 7. or 8 at Folly Quarter Middle School far the 2009/2010 school year and; 2. Have an older sibling who is enrolled at Mamotls Ridge High Scliool for Ihi; 2009/2010 school year and; 3. They will attend a minimum of one school year concun-ently with their older sibling al Marriotls Ridge High School. Trailing Siblings choosing to attend River Hill High School or Mam'olla Ridge High School will be given (he same access to bus trsnspoilaliT that their older sibling has>, as long as no addilionalcost to HCPSS is mciuTcd. This Iransportatiun will cease on the last day ofIhe school year. in Juneof2013. Trailing Siblings choosing 1callend River Hill High School or Marriotls Ridge High School will be eligible rorpariicipalion in exLracumcular and interseholaslic alhlelic aclivities. Trailing Sibliiies chousiiig to altend R.iver Hill High School or. ManiotlsRidge- liijih Scluiol will be subject lu (he general cundilians gu\'cniing s'tident rciissiti nment (SlEndard J) in Policy 9000. .Enrollinenl. Residency, Student Assignmer. l anti Admission to Pre-K. and Kindei-ganen." Dear BOE members: Please leave Polygon 181 in River Hill High school as designated in the 2 feasibility studies and Dr. Wu s plan. In learning about the history in our little community as shown above Woodmark has been jostled back and forth and split many times. And it is evident River Hill High school should be it's permanent designation. It makes the most sense because as Dr. Wu pointed out, in future Marriott's Ridge and Glenelg will both need room from Turf Valley development in the West. Ifyou group us all to either Marriott's Ridgeor Glenelg, it is a certainty we will be moved again in future. Please stop the madness now. Woodmark needsto be permanently designated River Hill HighSchool, Folly Quarter Middle School and Trialdelphia Elementary school. It is an easy one. We are a small community and will in future most likely stay that way. Ifyou drive by our area, you will see why. Our community is intermixed with mostly non-kids households and a small group of families with school age kids. I of2 11/4/2019, 12:42 F https://outlook. ofRce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink In this way, even the next BOE group will not have to address these groups of Polygons again. I also want to add my thumbs up to Ms. Delmont-Small's idea of Feeder schools. I think if you could create even some Feeder schools, this BOE could reduce the time and cost revisiting obvious school designations. What a mess you are all dealing with. Howard county needs to be fiscally responsible and I believe we as parents need to show our kidswe don't spend moneywe don't have. Aren't we in this pickle becausewe spent money we didn't have? Thank you for all your time and effort. And special thank you to Dr. Wu, Ms. Mallo, Ms. Delmont-Small, Ms. Cutroneo and Ms. Coombs for going the extra mile and for engaging this painful chaotic redistricting substantively. Sincerely yours, Eun Ah Montgomery Polygon 181 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 12:42 F Dear Board Members, I live in polygon 2148.These comments arewith respect to the most recent Mallo and Chao proposalsas posted on 10/31/2019. Please listen to us. We are not the loudest voices. Weare a strong, supportive and extremely diverse community who works very hard to support all our schools. Please keep our community together. We want all our schools to succeed, but we also want you to listen to all our voices not just the loudest. Please reconsiderthe moves for DorseySearch at NES/DMS/WLHS.The proposal splits the Dorsey's Search neighborhood in half moving our neighborhood's polygons (148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148) from NES and DMS to RBES and WLMS. These proposals would remove most of the affordable housing that currently attends NESand DMS-In fact all of the townhomes and condominiums in Dorsey Search are impacted and both proposals leave only single family homes at Dorse/s Search going to NES/DMS. Additionally this creates a microfeed of approximately 4% going NES-DMS-WLHS. Our community has worked very hard in the last 8 years to make our community stronger and more walkable. We now havethree safeareas for crossingColumbia road, whichnow meansfor manyof the proposed polygons (especially 1148 and 2148) the DMS and NESare quite walkable taking about 10-15 minutes to arrive by walking. This is especially true for the middle school feed, our kids can attend afterschool activities and walksafely home if they remain at DMS.This will not be the caseat WLMS. Thank you for your consideration, Julie Whittaker https;//outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Fwd:Test Plan Proposed by Jen Mallo. Polygons 20 and 120 swapped with 26, 27, 1026, and 1027 Jen I had previously sent a comment but it is NOTin the written testimony despite plenty of others from the same timeframe. Thus, I am sending this because it is the onlyway to comment at this late date. I apologize for copying others but the comments that did appear on board docs have you all copied. I am writing to comment on the test plan floated by Jen Mallo. My understanding is that it provides no FARMSdata (and she has indicated that she is not planning to provide any specific data due to privacy concerns), no feed percentages, and as far as I can see, no numbers indicating how many students are affected by each move. I have read that it moves over 7000 students total. How is the community supposed to provide meaningful input without those numbers, at this late date, on such a comprehensive proposal? It is unclear to me whyyou wouldjust start over with such a proposal rather than making adjustments to existing proposals. Moreover, these proposals don't seem to be posted anywhere but Facebook. They are not on the board's website or the school system's and following the discussion on the work sessions is completely inadequate for comprehending this moving target. In addition, I raise specific concerns regarding the moves for 20, 1020 from Bollman Bridge Elementary to Guilford and 26, 27, 1026, and 1027from Guilford to Bollman Bridge. This seems to be a swap of students at Bollman Bridge and Guilford with both schools sending and receiving from the other. Neither of these schools are overcrowded, and it seems like unnecessary movement. It splits the Huntington community in half when there is not overcrowding there and there is not the same area available for further development as in other parts of the county. I understand the theory of cascading but this seems to be moving students from 2 Title 1 schools in a circle, and I am hard pressed to find a benefit for either school. In addition, my son is one of approximately only 4-5 children in his entire grade of about 115 that would be moved away for his 5th grade year. And these moves fix no feeds. Thus, I question whythey need to be made. It does not appear to achieve any of the goals stated for this redistricting. It also may be disproportionately affecting FARMS students thus does not seem equitable, but as I said, it is difficult to tell without data. In addition, it is affecting polygons immediately adjacent to Mission Road that will surely be under consideration to move in a couple of years when adjustment is done for the new HS. This would possibly necessitate multiple moves for the same students within a short period of time. In fact, this whole far southeast region of the county will be at play then, and so many moves here now seem very shortsighted. Please do not adopt this proposal, especially at this late date. 1 of2 11/4/2019, 12:401 https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplml< Thank you, Jennifer Caruso 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 12:40 F https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplin]< [External] Re: Redistricting for 2148 Shesh Mudiyanur Thanks for your consideration. Regards, Shesh On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 23:18 Shesh Mudiyanur l_livein2148. 1 am writing to you in reference to Board Member Jen Mallo's proposal as presented on her Facebook page (10/29). I would like to request that you reconsider the proposal for Dorsey Search. The proposal splits the neighborhoodand moves nearly all ofthe affordablehousing out of NESand DMS,while leading almost all single family homes unchanged. It impacts my 9+year old NESstudent along with others in 2148, 148, 276, 302, 1148 changing them from NES to RBES and from DMS to WLMS. last few we in this pv er^the years, neighborhood have worked hard to make it a community and one which is saferfor walking and hiking. Columbia road hassafer crossings and the result has been"a lot of students including our son who walk and bike to NES and DMS. For all these reasons and more, want to request that you please reconsider any changes for this neighborhood. Thank you for your consideration. Respectfully, Shesh Kingscup Ct, Ellicott City of 1 II/4/20I9, 12:391 https://outlook. office.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Scaggsville road Kristin Griffin Sent from my iPhone of 1 11/4/2019, 12:381 https://outlook. ofiHce.com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Polygon 1186 Please support Dr. Wu plan and Keep 1186 in CMS Chunxiao Zhu Thanks for all board members spending countless hours on this redistricting, special thanks to Dr Wu and Ms Mallo for presenting the proposal last night. Between the two proposal last night, I strongly recommend to use Dr. Wu's plan as starting point, which is least disruptive, more cost effective ( given us HCPSS budget concern), and common sense focusing on moving overcrowding school to under capacity school. On the other hand, Ms Mallo's proposal is quite similar to Dr Martinaro's plan, massive redistricting by moving 7300 students, breaking up the communities and ignoring the community feedbackthrough emails, public testimony, not considering the transportation cost. MsMallo'splan divided polygon 186 & 1186 into 2 different feeds. 186to Clarksville Middle, and 1186 to Harpers Choice. 186 and 1186 are always one cohesive community historically on trotter road with 1000 acre natural barrier of Middle Patuxent Environment Area. This creates unnecessary inconsistent feed which will lead to future redistricting issues when HS13 comes. We are strongly against it! Please keep 1186atClarksville Middle and thanks for your consideration! Xiafang Sun polygon1186 This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the material from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Patient First 5000 Cox Road Glen Alien, VA 23060 www. PatientFirst. com of 2 11/4/2019, 12:38 https://outlook.oiBce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink 804-968-5700 2of2 11/4/2019, 12:381 https://outlook. ofRce. com/maiI/redistrictmg@hcpss. org/deepIinIi [External] Oppose the proposed changes to NES and DMS myolemiss I live in Polygon 1 148and was informed recently that my community will be affected in Dr. Wu's proposal updated last night and Ms. Mallo's proposal dated 10/28. I oppose the changes made to NESand DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) for the following reasons: 1. The proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the corner of MD 108 and US 29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NESwhich created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed changewill create island for MS at 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The propsed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. 2 The change came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process asthe previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 3. The change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. Regards Xin Chen Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8, an AT&T 4G LTE lofl 11/4/2019, 12:37 P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinl< [External] Please keep Polygon 183 and 1183 together Lin Han Dear BOE member, My name is Un Han. I live in Polygon 183. I am glad to see your productive collaboration at BOE work session last night. I noticed a mistake in Ms. Malta's plan, which she separated Polygon 183 and 1183. From Polygon 183, I am writing to ask you, please keep our community/these 2 polygons together forthe following reasons: Polygon 183 and 1183 are contiguous neighborhood. The Glenelg Country School is inside our polygon 183. West side of Country School, Maisel Farm Lane belongs to our polygon. Polygon 183 and 1183 is one community and are NOT separated by Glenelg Country School. Our community is an old community, which was founded even before River Hill High School. Wewere redistricted from Glenelg High School 22 years ago when River Hill High School opened. Students from Polygon 183 and 1183 are close friends, they ridethe same bus from Elementary to Middle School to High School for these years. I urge the board please consider the historical and geographic aspect. Keep polygon 183 and 1183 together. Keep children's childhood friends together. Let them go to RHHS or GHS together. Un Han Polygon 183 1 ofl 11/4/2019, 12:36 F Dear Howard County Board of Education, Thank you for serving on the Board of Education. We value your commitment and your support for the education of Howard County children. I am a parent of two children'in Polygon 127 (Rivers Edge). I am writing to state my concerns regarding the changes proposed by board member Mallo to move polygon 127 from Clarksville Middle to Wilde Lake Middle. Her plan to move us out of Clarksvllle Middle two years after we were redistricted there from Lime Kiln Middle to address the small feed from our polygon at the time, is completely unfounded, uninformed and unacceptable to this community. In 2017, our polygon was redistrlcted from Clemens Crossing ES to Pointers Run ES and from Lime Klln to MS Clarkesville MS. Our neighborhood understood the reason behind the Board's decision to redlstrict our community and overwhelmingly supported the move to PRES-CMS to fix the small feed that existed at the time. In board member Mallo's scenarios, our polygon would again be placed in a small feed which I strongly oppose and support keeping Polygon 127 with its current larger feed of PRES-CMSfor elementary and middle school. Under Board Member Mallo's approach, current sixth graders in Polygon 127 would be expected to attend four schools in four years: o 4th grade at Clemens Crossing ES (CCES) o 5th grade at Pointers Run ES (PRES) o 6th grade at Clarksville MS (CMS) o 7th grade at Wilde Lake MS (WLMS) Mallo's approach would violate the goals of Policy 6010 (IV. B. 2. ), which states the Board will make "every attempt to not move a student more than once at any school level or the same student more frequently than once every five years. " This policy is important to our neighborhood because in the 2018-2019 school year we experienced firsthand the impact and challenges redistrictlng presents as our children worked to adjust to new academicand social environments after the last redistricting decision. For these same children to endure another redistricting just two years later places an extreme burden on them and is totally unacceptable. Furthermore, moving our children yet again to a new middle school just two years after the last redistricting for our neighborhood would be harmful to stability and to the community our children have now built at PRES-CMS. Moving our community to WLMS does not support long term stability in light of the current and future development near downtown Columbia and to the east. As a result of that growth, it's reasonable to conceive that our polygon could be subject to additional redistricting in the near future if we are moved to WLMS now. Every plan and scenario to date (except for Board Member Mallo's scenarios) recognize these factors and have maintained our current feed of PRES-CMS. In contrast to our concerns regarding Board member Mallo's scenarios, Board member Wu's scenarios appear to take a holistic and long-term approach to redistricting and should be further explored. This should include exploration of the testing scenario that would keep the feed from Polygon 127 along with other polygons districted to'PRES-CMS-AHS. In addition, 1:he Superintendent's proposal (moves Polygon 127 from PRES-CMS-AHSto PRES-CMS-RiverH'llT HS) also could support long term stability for our polygon. If the Superintendent's plan Is ^an^ed', p!.e.?se consideran exception for our current high school students at AHSto stay at the school, if they provide their own transportation. Such an exception should include current freshman because they would otherwise fall into the same predicament as the 6th graders in' ^?.. s. !la^. ^as stated above) requiring them to attend four schools in four years (7th grade at LKMS, 8th grade at CMS, 9th grade at AHS, and 10th grade at RHHS). It Is important to note that by the potential for stability I mention in both the Superintendent's plan and in Board Member Wu's plan would only exist if all of the changes included in'those' pla.nsa_remad. e ^Le' a". °fthe P°lygons move together). Singular changes (cherry pickmg' polygonsjtothe Superintendent's plan or to Board Member Wu's scenarios'would jeopardize the stability the plans are designed to enable and could potentially exacerbate the overall problems the Board aims to address. Thus, we implore you to keep our polygon with other impacted polygons should the feed change from CMS to either AHS or River Hill School for us or similarly impacted polygons. We have always taken a reasonable approach to redistricting and thank you for the consideration of our concerns. We will continue to pay close attention during the Board meetings and will provide updated feedback as new considerations arise or additional concerns are identified. We Implore you to remember Polygon 127's recent redistricting in the 2018- 2019 school year, ask that you avoid small feeds and maintain contiguous stable feeds for Polygon 127, and keep us districted to PRES-CMS. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Ruby Singh Polygon 127 https://outlook. o£Gce. com/maiI/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplink [External] Opposing Redistricting Proposal (Polygon 148, 2148, 1148, and more) Wei Zhang Dr. Wu, I live in Polygon 1148 and was informed recently that my community will be affected in your proposal updated last night and Ms. Mallo's proposal dated 10/28. I oppose the changes made to NES and DMS (polygon 148, 1148, 2148, 276, 302) for the following reasons: 1. The proposed change does not comply with Policy 6010. The proposed change created an island at the corner of MD 108 and US 29. The plan also proposed to move 191, 1191, and 3191 to NES which created an island at 106 and 1106. The proposed change will create island for MS at 154, 1154, 2154, and 97. The propsed change still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. 2. The change came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 3. The change lacks detailed supporting materials about facility utilization, e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. Regards Wei Zhang Sent from my iPhpne 1 ofl 11/4/2019, 12:351 https://outlook. ofBce. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deepIink [External] Poly 65, 1065, 2065 Middle school sue. scott5312@verizon. net Thu 10/31/2019 8:28 AM To: Hcpss Redistricting of 1 11/4/2019, 12:351 https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Hammond High School - PLEASEDO NOT MOVE polygons 57, 1057 and 2057 Shelley Mansolillo I 1 attachments (164 KB) Polygons for HaHS.jpg; Good Morning, Thank you for all your efforts to help the communities with the proposed redistricting. We appreciate it more than you know. I'd like to bring polygons 57, 1057 and 2057 to your attention. These polygons are part of the Kings Contrivance Community of MacGills Common. In your proposed plan, you have them moving from Hammond High School to Atholton High School. This would be incredibly detrimental to the community and to Hammond High School. The current HaHS president booster and president booster elect both live in these polygons. Not to mention, they have always been part of our COMMUNITY.We swim on swim team together, eat dinner in the village center, boy and girl scout troops just to name a few significant things that would be shattered if these polygons move to Atholton High School. I please ask that you look at the attached polygon map. This map shows the "dead"space in our neighborhood where polygons have 0 children or houses. Pushing polygons 57, 1057 and 2057 creates a non-contiguous neighborhood. Further, these are zero FARM polygons, WHY would you take them out of one of the highest FARM schools in the county? Additionally, when HS13 is built, most likely polygons 57, 1057 and 2057, will be pushed back to Hammond hligh. Please reconsider the movement of polygons 57, 1057 and 2057 to Atholton High School and keep them at Hammond High School. Sincerely, Shelley Mansolillo of 1 11/4/2019, 12:34 F https://outlook.office.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Last night's work session Shawone Goldring While I appreciate the hard work and the task at hand the BOE hasto accomplish. Lastnight felt like a game of cards. I'll give you one polygon and raise you two. It was fascinating and heart wrenching to see the board swap out children's lives with the flip of a color tool on a keyboard. I agree with Sabina Taj, what is the end state? I did not see the facts laid out and the variables that would be impacted laid out in a comprehensive way for the audience to fully digest it's impact. The night ended with pins in key polygons that impact Oakland Mills and from the looks and sounds of it (do no harm), it appears OM remains the same. Well the harm has already been done. So you think if you make our FARM rate no worse but you increase our utilization you've done no harm??? If you keep Farm rates at one of the highest concentration schools the same, you've done no harm? Well I will tell you, you have. You already did and will again. My children should be provided the same specials classes, field trips and extracurricular activities as River Hill and others. We shouldn't have to spend all our funds on ESOLresources, buying music equipment for those who can't afford it, etc. I charge you to make the tougher decisions now. I saw the sea of green shirts and it may compel you make changes that make them happier. I just want you to know there are a ton of orange shirts who need help. We are drowning in Oakland Mills and our children are getting the short end of the stick. Do as we teach our children, play fair and fix what should never have been broken. Warm regards, Shawone Goldring Polygon4113 lofl 11/4/2019, 12:341 Dear Board Members, Thankyou for serving on the Boardof Education. Wevalue your commitment and your support for fhe education ofHoward County children. I am a resident ofPolygon 127 and am wntmg to express concern regarding Board Member Mallo's test scenarios that would redistrict Polygon 127 for a secondtime sincethe 2018-2019school year, this time from PRES- CMS-AHS to PRES-WLMS-AHS. I also would encourage the Board to explore Board Member Wu's test scenarios as they appear to address several goals ofthe Board while still preparing the County for the inclusion ofHigh School #13. My specific concerns with Board Member Mallo's test scenarios are: . The scenarioswould undo the successful 2017redistricting that fixed the small feed problem for Polygon 127: In 2017, our polygon was redistricted &om Clemens Crossing ES and Lime Kiln MS to Pomters Run ES and Clarkesville MS (took effect for the 2018-2019 school year). Our neighborhood understood the reason behind the Board's decision to redistrict our coimnunity and overwhelmingly supported the move to PRES-CMS to fix the small feed that existed at the time. In Board Member Mallo's scenarios, our polygon would again be placed in a small feed. I oppose Board Member Mallo's scenarios and support keeping Polygon 127 with its current large feed ofPRES-CMSfor elementary and middle school. . Four schools in four years is untenable and directly violates Policy 6010: Current sixth graders in Polygon 127would be expected to attend four schools in as many years under Board Member Mallo's approach: o 4th grade at Clemens Crossing ES (CCES) o 5th grade at Pointers Run ES (PRES) o 6th grade at Clarksville MS (CMS) o 7th grade at Wilde LakeMS (WLMS) Therefore, BoardMember Mallo's approachwould violate the goals ofPolicy 6010 (IV. B. 2.), whichstates the Board will make "every attemptto notmove a student morethan once at any school level or the same student more frequently tlian once every five years. " This policy is important to our neighborhood because in the 2018-2019 school year we experienced firsthand the impact and challenges redistricting presents as our children worked to adjust to new academic environments and friend groups after the last redistricting decision. For these same childrento endure anotherredistricting just a fewyears laterplaces an extreme burdenon them. . Moving our polygon again negatively impacts stability now and in the future: Moving our children yet again to a new middle school just two years after the last redistricting for our neighborhood would be hannful to stability and to the community our childrenhave now built at PRES-CMS.Further, moving our community to WLMSdoes not support long term stability in light of the current and future development near Downtown Columbia md to the east. As a result ofthat growth, it's reasonable to conceive that our polygon could be subject to additional redistricting in the near future if we are moved to WLMS now. All plans and scenarios to date (except for Board Member Mallo's plan) recognize these factors and have maintained our current feed ofPRES-CMS. In contrast to our concerns regarding Board Member Mallo's scenarios, Board Member Wu's scenario appears to take a holistic mid long-term approach to redistricting and should be further explored, including his testing scenario that would keep Polygon 127 districted to PRES-CMS-AHS. Likewise, the Superintendent's proposal (moves Polygon 127 from AHS to PRES-CMS-River Hill HS) is also an approach that could support long term stability for our polygon. It is important to note that the stability I mention for these two plans only exists if all ofthe changes included in those plans are also made. Singular changes to the Superintendent's plan or to Board Member Wu's scenarios would jeopardize the stability the plans are designed to enable and could potentially exacerbatethe overall problems the Board aims to solve. We have always taken a reasonable approach to redistricting and thank you for the consideration of our concerns. We will continue to pay close attention during the Board meetings and will provide updated feedback as new considerations arise or additional concerns areidentified. Weimplore youto remember Polygon 127's recentredistricting in the 2018-2019 school year, askthat you avoid small feeds andmaintain contiguous stable feeds for Polygon 127, and keep us districted to PRES-CMS. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, SindhuVenkatachary Polygon 127 https://outlook. office.coin/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplmk [External] Wake up to a much bigger and higher stake competition going on H Kan I want to send this hopefully my last email. I was reading this news about China is beating US in high tech and soon may dominate the world in many areas in military. https://sociable. co/technology/us-china-are-neck-and-neck-for-high-tech-supremacy-defense-innovation-unit/amp/ This is 2019. If we continue to focus on desegregation where is none and argue about FARM rates, rather than focus on meeting the real needs of the vulnerable and encouraging excellence in education, we will risk becoming a second class country when these kids grow into their adulthood. And remember this is one of the best school districts in the country and this is how we are spending our energy. Wake up we adults who are responsible for education of our future generations and focus on the future not the past. I have been thinking about that lady who shouted can't wait for you to go back to Asia. It is a pity that she just does not know what is happening in the world. I only blame the ignorance not her herself. I personally have no problem to go backto Asia. But I can't because my kids are stuck in US - they were born here. So I have a stake. Wake up and we are in a much bigger and higher stake competition and I hope YOU all BOE members and the Superintendent do things that push for best education for both the vulnerable and non-vulnerable. Don't lose the big picture of USA to remain a dominant force in the future world. And what we focus on here now will make a difference between a first or second class country in the future. This is my sincere word to all you because of I am worried about this country and my kids in this country. Best, Hong Kan Polygon 1186 of 1 11/4/2019, 12:32 https://outlook.o£Rce.com/maiI/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Small Feeds Jennifer Meckes Jennifer Meckes, Polygon 3034 Jennifer Meckes, Realtor The Legal Team of Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. 10805 Hickory Ridge Road Columbia, MD 21044 Office: (410)715-2748 Cell: (937)829-8418 www.LegalHomes.com "The Legal Team - #1 Real Estate Team for over 10 Years in the #1 Long & Foster Office in the Region" Sent from my iPhone - Please excuse brevity or typos. ALERT! Long & Foster Real Estate will never send you wiring information via email or request that you send us personal financial information by email. If you receive an email message like this concerning any transaction involving Long & Foster Real Estate, do not respond to the email and immediately contact your agent via phone. The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. 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Kripa Tiwari Thanks, Kripa Tiwari Polygon 176 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 12:23 P https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplinl. [External] Polygon Numbers: 65, 1065, and 2065 - Written Testimony with regards to revised "test scenarios" from Chao Wu and Jennifer Mallo Anne Marie Fulcher I 1 attachments(148 KB) Updated written testimony from polygons 65, 1065, 2065. docx; WRITTEN TESTIMONY FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION REGARDINGBOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENTS Anne Marie Fulcher Polygon Numbers: 65, 1065, and 2065 I donot agree with the test scenario proposals presented for my neighborhood by Chao Wuand JenniferMallo atthe 10/29/19working session. I live inthe Glenmont subdivision, specifically potygon 1065. Our students currently attend Thunder Hill ES (to whichwe walk), Ellicott Mills MS, and Howard HS (to which we walk). I have two sons, one is 4 and the other is 7 months old. Please keepwalkers aswalkers, maintain contiguous school boundaries, andavoid exceptionally small feeds. The revised plans recommend putting Glenmont ona busto a different middle school (OMHS) that does not ciirrently feed to Howard HS, so Glenmont students would become a new feed of only 2. 9 percent! BOEPolicy 6010indicates that feeds ofless than 15percent shouldbe avoided: . "Feeds that encourage keeping students together from one school to the next. For example, avoidingfeeds ofless than 15% at the receiving school." SinceGlenmont students walkto HowardHS, they should attend a middle school with a strong feedto Howard HS. Areasthat are made up ofcontiguous communities or neighborhoods. " Polygon 2151 is exclusively Blandair Park, so although it appears to connect Glenmont to the community across State Highway 175, no students live there. Thus, Glenmont Island wouldbe created, whichconflicts withPolicy 6010. From my own personal experience I can attest that small feeds going into high school are homble. In 1998 I went from Mayfield Woods Middle School onto~Howard'High School with a similar small feedand to thisday I will neverforget how isolated 1 feltwalking into my classes andtlie cafeteria onmy lunch shiftnot recognizing a single faceto sitwith. I could go'on regardingthe emotional stress, butthe thought of the same thing happening to my sonsmakes me tearup and bring back alloftliose emotions again. Thisis such a fragiletime forkids please do notmess with rt for thesakeofmimbersWe are such a smallneighborhood that we don't bring any impact in this middle school move. Pleasesee the graphicbelow for just howsmall ofa feed we are talking about: lof2 11/4/2019, 12:21 P https://outlook, office. com/m ail/redistrictmg@hcpss . org/deeplini For these reasons, urge you to keep polygons 65, 1065, and 2065 as walkers to elementary school (Thunder Hill) and high school. And please keep Glenmont at a middle school with a strong feed to Howard HS (ELMS or Bonnie Branch). Please do not implement this disruptive redistricting plan. Thank you for consideringmy input. 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 12:21 Pl WRITTEN TESTIMONY FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION REGARDING BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENTS Anae Marie Fulcher Polygon Numbers: 65, 1065, and 2065 I aiTlsending my second letter becauseI do not agree withthe test scenario proposals presented for my neighborhoodby ChaoWu and Jennifer Mallo atthe 10/29/19working session. I live in the Glenmont subdivision, specifically polygon 1065. Ourstudents currently attendThunder Hill ES (to whichwe walk), Ellicott Mills MS, andHoward HS (to whichwe walk). I havetwo sons, oneis 4 md the otheris 7 months old. Pleasekeep walkers aswalkers, maintain contiguous school boundaries, and avoid exceptionally small feeds. The revised plans recommend putting Glemiiont on a busto a differentmiddle school (OMHS) that does not currently feed to Howard HS, so Glenmont students would become a new feed of only 2. 9 percent! BOE Policy 6010 indicates that feeds of less than 15 percent should be avoided: . "Feeds that encourage keeping students together from one school to the next. For example, avoiding feeds of less than 15% at the receiving school. " Since Glenmont students walkto Howard HS, they shouldattend a middle school witha strong feedto Howard HS. . "Areas that are made up of contiguous communities or neighborhoods." Polygon 2151 is exclusively BlandairPark, so although it appears to connect Glenmont to the community across State Highway 175, no students live there. Thus, Glenmont Island would be created, whichconflicts with Policy 6010. From my ownpersonal experience I canattest that small feeds going into highschool are horrible. In 1998 I went from Mayfield Woods Middle School onto Howard High School with a similar small feed andto this day I will never forget how isolated I felt walking into my classes andthe cafeteria on my lunch shift not recognizing a single face to sit with. I could go on regardingthe emotional stress, butthe thought ofthe samething happening to my sonsmakes me tear up and bring back all ofthose emotions again. This is such a fragile time for kids please do not messwith it for the sakeof numbers. Weare sucha small neighborhoodthat we don't bring any impact in this middle school move. Please see the graphic below forjust how small of a feed we are talking about: Small Feed for Glennnont from OMMSto HMS n n n n n n n mr . i»t>lt ^r» Clcnm&nt ^Ift i ^021 projected enrollment: 7,968 2022 projectecf enroilment: Z. OOG -jj- Gr-adcs XO-12 For these reasons, I urge you to keep polygons 65, 1065, and 2065 aswalkers to elementary school (Thunder Hill) and high school. And please keep Glenmont at a middle school with a strong feed to Howard HS (ELMS or Bonnie Branch). Please do not implement this disruptive redisteicting plan. Thank you for considering my input. https://outlook. ofRce. com/maiI/redistricting@hcpss. org/deepIinl< [External] Polygon 1086 Farah Shakfeh My name is Farah Chukfeh and I live in Rockburn Township, polygon 1086. I have 3 children who have been districted to attend Howard High School, like their neighbors before them. I urge you to keep our polygon districted to Howard High so my children remain with same friends and neighbors they attended with during elementary and middle school. With the proposed plans, they will attend years of Elementary and Middle School years with friends and family just to be RIPPED apart at the High School level. It is heartbreaking to learn that my children will be separated from their friends. Please keep our children at the same feed of schools. Thank you Farah Chukfeh 7710GraystoneCt Ellicott City, MD 21043 443 909 0495 1 of 1 11/4/2019, 12:18 F October 2019 Suggestion for Mallo's Plan Andrea Jacques Polygon 1210 Board Members, Thankyou very much for your dedicationto this process. It is not an easyone. I would like to make a suggestion to Jen Malta's plan. In most all plans beingconsidered there is a cluster of polygons that are proposed to move from Triadelphia Ridge ESto BushyPark ES.Polygons 209, 210, 1210,2210, 1222.Jen Mallo's plan only has polygon 1210 being moved. Thiswould be a handful of kidsseparated from their community. We live in the rural suburbs where neighborhoodsare more spread out so moving one polygon would not have a significant impact. I'm askingthat ifyou make a move to please following the other plans proposed that keep this cluster of polygons together. Thank you, Andrea https://outIook.ofBce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Polygon 2148: Redistricting from Dunloggin Middle to Wilde Lake Middle Sunmy Brown Redistricting is never an easy process and I want to thank each member of the board for taking the time to listen to students, parents, and community members as you work through the various plans in tackling overcrowding, promoting equity, and maintaining fiscal responsibility in the Howard County Public School System. I want to urge each member of the board to look carefully at the polygons to ensure walkers remain walkers, strong feeds and communities are transferring together, and minimize transportation costs. I recently read Dr. Wu'sproposed redistricting option for Polygon 2148to be transferred from Dunloggin Middleto Wilde LakeMiddle. We live withinwalking distanceto Dunloggin MiddleSchool andwe are'part of the Dorsey Hall community. A few years ago, our townhome community fought hard to get a roundabout built in along Columbia road, with the addition of crosswalks to ensure that our children are able to walk to and from school safely. Thestudents living in Polygon 2148 bikeand walk to andfrom school daily. Furthermore whatDr. Wu is proposing is for our polygon to be ripped apartfrom the Dorsey Hall Community. He is currently proposing Polygons 148, 276, 302, 1148, and 2148 to be transferred, without including Polygon 149 or 152? This just doesn't make sense. We are ALL part of the Dorsey Hall Community. If you are going to redistrict students, please keep communities together. This isn't fair to students nor is it in the best interest for students. I am against this proposal. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. Regards, Sunmy Brown Polygon 2148 lofl 11/4/2019, 12:17 F https://outlook.ofBce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplink [External] Oppose Ms. Mallo's Proposal myolemiss I am from Polygon 1 148. do appreciate BOE members spending time and efforts on the redistricting topic. However, I oppose Ms. Mallo's plan and the process how her proposal came out for the following reasons: 1. Her proposal is based on outdated data. 2. Her proposal does not have any more material merits than the superintendent's plan. 3. Her does not meet the fundamental requirements of policy 6010 . 4. Her plan still creates more smaller feed and divides as well disrupt more communities. 5. Her plan came out in the last minute and has not been fully communicated to the public. It lacks the same due process as the previous proposal. It does not receive fair enough public inputs from those communities that will be affected. 6. Her plan lacks detailed supporting materials e. g. fiscal responsibility by minimizing capital and operating costs. It appears her plan still will involve significant busing and transportation costs. Regards Xin Sentvia the SamsungGalaxy S8, an AT&T4G LTEsmartphone 1 of] 11/4/2019, 12:16 F https://outlook. office. com/mail/redistricting@hcpss. org/deeplml [External] Comment on 10/30 Redistricting Work Session Craig Renier It is true that Centennial MS student population is above capacity and projected to grow. However, this is a case where the BOE should consider leaving the Centennial HS attendance area alone until the next redistricting process for the opening of HS13. While 120% or more is not ideal, this building is in good condition and the FARM rate is very low. This is a utilization that the school staff and community can deal with until the final HS attendance areas are determined for 23/24 school year. Thank you. Craig Renier 2408 Hannon Ct Ellicott City, MD 21042 1 of] 11/4/2019, 12:16 F https://outlook.ofBce.coni/mail/[email protected]/deep]inl< [External] Polygons 154, 1154 and 2154 ABZeleke Would you please consider the well being of vulnerable students from resource poor families that are unfairly targeted to be moved from CHS to MRHS? Consider the distance (2 miles versus 8 miles) and the cascading negative impact on their wellbeing as a consequence of sleep deprivation, disrupted support, not attending after school activities, the list goes on and on. OyLpropssaLisjust to let the current CHSto stay in CHS. They have already_started their Joumeyjn_CHSjoined GT classes, clubs, band and overall laid their foundation. Then why move them? Polygon 97 is closer to Mt Hebron than either CHS or MRHS. Dr. Wu, we were glad when you said that your motto would be "Do No Harm, " and thought you would be standing with the less fortunate neighbour hoods and work to make minimum pain. It is sad to see the plan you and Jen made that moves specific polygons (154, 1154, 2154) with high FARM rates from Centennial HSto MRHS. Most kids in these polygons come from familieswith minimum resources andWe are very sadto seeour kidsare the onlyones to be bused long distancefrom the current 2 miles in CHSto 8 miles to MRHS.You see,your proposal is going to harm in so many ways including their sleep patterns, extracurricular activities and their overall mental health. The plan is cutting our kids and potentially setting them up for failure as the move disrupts their overall life. My son testified with a "Do No Harm" message and asked the BOEto not disrupt his and his friends high school life and thought you and others listened. Thank you! Dr. Ash Bekele Ash Z. Bekele FDA/CDER 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD Cell Phone. 612-598-9554 lofl 11/4/2019, 12:15 F https://outlook.ofSce.com/mail/[email protected]/deeplinli [External] Jen Mallo's Redistricting Plan - Questions and Concerns Nicole Laidig Earlier this afternoon I became aware of a new redistricting plan proposed by Jen Mallo. I have several concerns that I would like to share and a fewquestions. Myfir^t concern is that this new plan seems to be proposed with only weeks before making a very crucial decision for many families. I have been following the redistricting plans and up to this point, my children were not moved. Today, however, I heard from a neighbor that a new plan was proposed that would move polygon 132from Clemens Crossing to Bryant Woods Elementary. There seems to be a lackof communication in presenting a new plan this late in the process without adequate time for input from those newly affected. Had I known ahead of time, I perhaps could have arranged for childcare in order to be present at the work session tonight. I know that many families in my neighborhood were unaware that we were in consideration for changing schools and I imagine that there are many families who are still unaware. I realize this is a difficult and intricate situation but believe that all parties involved in a potential change should be given adequate amount of time before the final decision is made. I am asking that you please consider the limited time frame that you are givinQ residents to educate themselves and respond to a plan with huge impacts on their families and community. To many of us, hearing of this new plan at this point in the process was shocking and unexpected. That being said, my concern with Jen Malta's plan is that it moves my neighborhood, a small pocket ofthe Hickory RidgeCommunity, from Clemens Crossing to BryantWoods Elementary. We are the only group slated to leave Clemens to Bryant Woods. All of our friends and neighbors whom we play with, walk to friends houses, swim with at the Clemens Crossing Pool and meet at the playground will remain at Clemens Crossing andjust our small group will bused across major roads and out of our home community. This decision to move this one pocket does not seem to be effective in evening out numbers but only serves to separate a community I implore you to please reconsider moving polygon 132 from Clemens Crossing to Bryant Woods My question for the board and those involved in the redistricting decision is what are the next steps? My understanding is the the final decision will be made November 21st with several public work sessions before that Myconcern isthat my community's (specifically polygon 132) opportunity to respond to a potential redistricting (as stated in Mallo's plan) was at the Public Hearing held on September 24 nearly a full month before this new proposal was made. We are faced with the possibility of redistricting without the opportunity to respond. This is an opportunity that was afforded to many of the others who were made aware of the possibilities of change before their public hearing date. How does the input of additional proposals from the board members impact the plan already proposed bythe superintendent? am unclear as 1 of2 11/4/2019, 12:13 F https://outlook. ofifice.coni/mail/[email protected]/deeplink to what redistricting plan is being considered now or if it is a combination. Thank you for your time and attention to my concerns. Sincerely, Nicole Laidig 2 of 2 11/4/2019, 12:131