Ah, the oft-heard, forlorn dirge of the Wooton cluster. "It's falling apart! Look at our trumped-up facility scorecard! (...but don't consider our overall student experience/academic success when considering capital expenditure -- we only want to highlight that when discussing college admissions or telling them to keep our boundaries unchanged.)" |
PP you're responding to. I'm a DCC parent. |
This is pretty disingenuous when you are asking for advocacy for an auditorium and other communities are advocating for space to relieve overcrowding in school or to fix mold or provide ADA accommodation. Make the case for why this auditorium is more important than all those other needs and more important Thant what the council is already proposing. |
Wonderfully convenient line of thinking for those in more wealthy areas that are more directly benefitting... If the objective was to provide similar levels of student experience across the county, the decisions that led to the Woodward reopening being the priority project really missed the mark. |
Great. Which ignored DCC HS community did you have in mind? Einstein? Certainly, from a facilities perspective, but is it in worse shape than the current Northwood? Kennedy? Lots of operational items could help, there, but not so much a facilities thing. Blair? Overcrowded, but that and the geography screams to build a new HS back inside the beltway closer to TP or DTSS, even after some relief from the Northwood expansion. Separately, I certainly could see MS (Eastern) or ES (lots, but RTES and HVES are easy to note). |
Which high school is that? |
DP. Why is it disingenuous? If Northwood families don't advocate for themselves, who will advocate for them? |
What Woodward magnet program? Will Woodward even be in the DCC? I haven’t seen anything confirming either of those points, just some wishful speculation on this board. Curious whether there’s something more concrete I haven’t heard. |
The one that they knew was needed, but, because of a lack of consideration, planning for which was abandoned with justification from poor mock-ups and land acquisition cost estimates to pave the way for alternate use of the capital for Wooodward. |
Oh, the non-existent high school. |
They sold Woodward to the county & BOE as a way to alleviate crowding at both WJ and in the DCC. As plans evolved downstream from approval gates, the DCC consideration became ever smaller. The last thought, aside from the possibility of moving a DCC elementary to Woodward and one to BCC, with knock-on of BCC to Whitman (which are being vociferously opposed), was that the latter phase of Woodward would create space for a regional magnet program of some sort (arts-related, possibly), and that that might be open to DCC applicants in addition to the nearby Ws, etc. The net from DCC for something like that might be 50 students a year or so on the high side. |
No, there has not been anything more concrete. It is a vague idea at best. |
Yup. The more pressing, but poorly addressed, need. |
Are you talking about the hospital site in Takoma Park? I think it would be a great site for a new HS. |
Which money would MCPS buy it with? |