How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore. |
WJ has had several additions. Lots of schools have portables. |
Football is great and all but maybe they should just focus on reading and math until kids start doing better. |
Now you are asking to much to go back to basics and make academics a priority. |
Share facilities? Schools fight for field space as it is, now you want to double the amount if use per school? You really don't have kids, let alone HS students. Every Ezs amd MS school field is filled with rock and dirt patches, not to mention divots. Why? Overuse. The turf at HSs is in high demand (lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, football and I'm sire I'm forgetting by some things). And I'm not really sure what this has to do with Woodward and Crown needing an auditorium, which they both do |
The issue is more opening new schools with lack of space. |
Blair has more portables than WJ, and yet WJ gets a new school, Woodward, to relieve the anxiety of WJ parents, while Blair does not. Stop whining about having to have Northwood use Woodward for a holding school. Count your blessings. Northwood is being expanded to help relieve the overcapacity at Blair. DCC is getting a new school. |
No one at WJ is whining about Northwood using Woodward. We all know when the BOE opened Northwood with "paint and a prayer" it would need to get redone, and WJ is ok with waiting*. And, are supporting Northwood students in their fight for not having to start early, for the auditorium as originally promised and for fields
*if BOE had built Woodward when originally needed for DCC and WJ it would have cost a lot less and would have been done years ago. Instead MCPS and BOE delay and deny and put off, and it costs more and kids are in overcrowded schools for a much longer time |
I don't recall that decision ever being made. Whenever I have heard MCPS staff asked about whether Woodward will become part of the consortium, the answer is always that's still TBD. |
...for football? |
A football team can use another location just like other sports do. A football team is only for what fifty students? |
Where at Strathmore do you think the football team should play? |
Woodward is close to WJ. They can share fields, except no need, because MCPS caved and paid to level the Woodward property at great expense to build Woodward's football field. |
What do you know about field usage at WJ? |
They can make it work. |