VERY IMPORTANT REDISTRICTING INFORMATION
PLEASE READ!!!!
This Wednesday, January 6 @ 7 pm will be a meeting at Loch Raven High School where four different Rodgers Forge Elementary School boundary options will be presented.
Only one (1): OPTION G ,keeps our community intact!!! It is imperative that any and all community members attend and vote for this option. The other three options have some part of the Forge redistricted to the new school and for our community I feel this is NOT acceptable.
Rodgers Forge Community recently received the very prestigious designation of being a National Historic District and to not have our community intact at the school level is counter to this designation.
WE are a COMMUNITY that not only encompasses our homes but our two neighborhood schools as well and we want to stay that way: ONE COMMUNITY, ONE VOICE!!!!
Please come and vote for OPTION G!!!!!!!!!
Janice M. Moore, President-Rodgers Forge Community, Inc.
i do not understand why our board is dictating to me what option to vote for without providing any information on exactly what are the four options. i would like to decide based on facts not feelings.
ReplyDeletePlease attend the meeting and learn the facts and cast your vote or share your opinion.
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The board is proposing that one support a position that keeps the Rodgers Forge community intact and have all children residing in Rodgers Forge attend Rodgers Forge Elementary School.
I've searched the web for an outline of the various options for new school boundaries and have found nothing specific. If you are advocating "OPTION G", might you also post a link or a document outlining the various options up for consideration?? Many of us have friends and neighbors nearby who aren't necessarily in "Roders Forge" proper and I for one would like to know how they will be effected as well.
ReplyDeleteJanice, Thank you for your enthusiasm, but what is "OPTION G"? Seems odd that you would not include this with your plea for support????
ReplyDeleteAfter much research I have learned from BCPS that the options being proposed are NOT YET public knowledge and are to be announced at tomight's meeting so as not to disadvantage any group or neighborhood. I appreciate the RF board advocating for all residents of RF but it's a bit premature to garner support for any one option in this public forum when this is not to be public knowledge until this evening. Unless, of course, you just make all the options public and then give your recommendation. I urge everyone to attend tonight to gather all information and make your own suggestion.
ReplyDeleteI applaud the Board for conveying important information the community. There will always be that person, like the above poster, who would then state, "Why didn't you share the info with us when you knew about Option G"? Thanks for always thinking of the best interests of the community, for working so hard to make us an historic designation, and for all of the hours that you spend away from your families. I am interested in coming to the meeting tonight, to learn more about Option G, but to also know that I have the RIGHT to choose to vote however I choose. Thanks, BOARD for all that you do!
ReplyDeleteI think it is very ironic that, after begging and pleading for a new school, nobody is willing to attend! I understand why everyone loves Rodgers Forge - I do too - but it is laughable how anti-west towson the Rodgers Forge residents are.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting for chants of "burn down West Towson" to start! Or maybe a milder version of "send someone elses kids" to be heard at a pep rally!
Why is the RF board proposing a plan where we cut the RF apartments out of our neighborhood? This is not a way to promote an overall wholesome family oriented community. This plan "G" creates hardship for our neighbors living there that can least afford the trek all the way up Charles Street in order to be involved in their children's elementary school.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they're supportive of a plan that cuts out the RF apartments because the RF apartments are not officially part of the neighborhood? And, given the options, it's better to (sadly) lose the apartments than 1/3 of the actual neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThe apartments, like Gaywood, Armagh Village, Yorktowne Drive, Rodgers Choice, Stoneleigh, Anneslie, Charlesbrooke, etc. are all very good neighbors, but they aren't part of the neighborhood.
To Anonymous- why do you think that those in the apartments would have hardship getting to West Towson School??? Do you think because a person chooses to live in an apartment, they are poor? How insulting!
ReplyDeleteFor the record, for almost all of their existence, the apartments were part of the Rodgers Forge Community Association, Up until at least 9/17/06 RFCA's website stated the following, "A community with 1,777 houses and over 500 apartments. Over 7,000 men, women, and children live in Rodgers Forge." There was a position on the RFCA Board that was for a resident of the apartments. This may have changed when the apartments were sold to be developed into condo, but to say the apartments are not part of Rodgers Forge is disingenuous. None of the options presented keep the Rodgers Forge community intact.
ReplyDeleteSure, the RF apartments and the Rodgers Forge neighborhood worked together over the years. I received the RF newsletter in the apartments when I lived there.
ReplyDeleteHowever, for the record, the boundaries of Rodgers Forge NEVER included the apartments.
I'm disappointed with the options, but the best option is the one that at least matches the official (and now historic!) boundaries of Rodgers Forge.
I'm curious about something. I'm looking at the option G map for redistricting of RFES and it appears that 8 houses were left out which belong to RF proper. They are the 4 duplexes on Pinehurst Rd right before Overbrook road. Why is this?
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