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Students and parents urge board to preserve feeder patterns, warn of disruption from proposed boundary changes
Summary
Students and parents testified against school‑boundary options that would move cohorts to different high schools, citing instability, long commutes and threats to mental health and community ties.
Dozens of students and parents told the Montgomery County Board of Education on July 10 that proposed boundary changes in the current study would fracture school communities and harm student well‑being.
Students from the Wayside/Hoover attendance area said all four draft options in the study would send them to Winston Churchill High School for ninth grade and then to Thomas Wootton High School for 10th through 12th grades. They said the mid‑high‑school transfer would force them to rebuild academic and…
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