Board of Education to hold forum about boundary study
The Montgomery County Board of Education will host a public forum on Thursday to help determine the scope of work for a consultant that will be hired to conduct a districtwide boundary assessment.
The hearing will begin at 6 p.m. at the Carver Educational Services Center in Rockville and will focus on a resolution passed by the school board in January that directs the school system to hire an external consultant to examine whether existing school boundaries promote the most effective use of school facilities.
The school board is seeking feedback from the public for the framework of the study.
No specific boundary recommendations are under consideration at this time.
Each speaker will be given three minutes to testify, unless they are elected officials or representative of an association. Those speakers will be given five minutes to testify.
Northwood High students recognized for suicide prevention PSA
Two public service announcements created by students at Northwood High School in Kemp Mill about suicide prevention efforts will be shown in local movie theaters.
The winning videos were “Get Help,” submitted by Sophie Geiger, and “See How You Can Help,” submitted by Rowan Arnold and Jay Hutchins.
The messages were created as part of a competition aimed at preventing teen suicide, sponsored by Gandhi Brigade Youth Media and Montgomery County’s Leading Adaptive Change for Suicide Intervention group.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among school-aged youth, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We know that teens often talk to their peers and value their perspective and that is one reason why teen ambassadors such as the students who submitted PSAs play an important role in bringing awareness to the issue of teen suicide,” Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich and Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Smith wrote in a congratulatory letter to winning students.
Runner-up PSAs were submitted by students at Hallie Wells Middle School in Clarksburg, Poolesville High School and Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring.
The video PSA submissions can be viewed on YouTube.
Three Montgomery students chosen to attend Hollywood arts program
Three Montgomery County high school seniors will attend an arts and humanities program at the end of March in Hollywood, California.
Twenty high school students were chosen from across the U.S. to attend the event, sponsored by the NAACP, designed to expose students to humanities, performing arts and visual arts career opportunities.
Gabrielle Cramer, Northwood High School in Kemp Mill, Fredrica Deegbe, Northwest High School in Germantown, and Patrick Kirwin, Albert Einstein High School in Kensington were chosen for the event based on their involvement with the NAACP of Montgomery County’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics. They will leave for the event March 26 and return March 31.
Student attendees will create video projects documenting their experience to share with their school communities and online after the event.
