The Frederick County Board of Education on May 27 adopted a redistricting plan made necessary by the 2010 opening of the county's 10th high school. By all accounts, the almost year-long process that involved 21 schools was complicated and was bound to leave some communities unhappy.

The school board is set to see final maps and documents at its regular meeting Wednesday night.

Libertytown parents are upset that their children will be sent out of the community to attend Walkersville Middle School, and then will come back to Linganore , their neighborhood high school. They want their children to remain at New Market Middle.

The Green Valley community will see its children split among three middle schools -- New Market , Windsor Knolls and Urbana . Parent Maureen Wilks questions the logic of removing children from Windsor Knolls -- a school that is under capacity -- and moving them to the over-enrolled New Market Middle School.

"Even if the Green Valley students were left at Windsor Knolls, the school would still only be at 85 percent capacity," Wilks wrote in an e-mail. "It would lower the numbers at New Market Middle. There is absolutely no logic in the plan as it now stands."

Twin Ridge Elementary School PTA president Hope Adams has a son finishing third grade and a daughter finishing first grade. Her children would attend New Market Middle and Linganore High.

The plan adopted by the school board would send 75 percent of Twin Ridge students to Windsor Knolls and 25 percent to New Market .

"And then they're all supposed to come back to Linganore ," Adams said Monday.

The Twin Ridge students who go to Windsor Knolls would be the only students from that school to go to Linganore , which concerns Adams.

"So the kids will have to leave friends they made in elementary school and then leave friends they make in middle school," she said. "And don't get me wrong, we want to be at Linganore . We'd just like to stay at New Market Middle."

Spring Ridge speaks

Spring Ridge resident Joy Schaefer is upset that her community is being viewed as the bully causing all the problems. Many letters writers and online commenters have said that, by Spring Ridge getting what it wanted, other communities suffered.

"I don't know if people expected us to not advocate for our children," Schaefer said Monday.

Spring Ridge parents decided early on to attend every public meeting to address redistricting, she said. They took advantage of the same process that was available to every other county resident.

"Our feeder pattern has always been (Gov. Thomas Johnson) Middle and TJ High," Schaefer said of Spring Ridge. "We knew that when we moved in and we didn't have an issue with that."

But she said, after Oakdale Middle was built practically in the neighborhood, and then Oakdale High, it didn't make sense to travel to schools 20 minutes away when there were schools just five minutes away.

The Spring Ridge community most wanted to keep its kids together in middle and high school, and wanted them in closer schools if possible, Schaefer said.

She and her neighbors aren't happy that their community attends two different elementary schools -- Spring Ridge and Oakdale.

"That's the compromise that we make to keep our kids together in middle and high school," she said. "We knew coming in to their process and we were going to have to compromise and other communities would have to compromise."

Schaefer said she was impressed with the number of public meetings held to discuss the redistricting process. Those meetings were open to everyone, she said.

"We've not had any more opportunity than any other community to express our concerns," she said.

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