New: Boundary Studies
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Anonymous
| What is the latest in the boundary studies? No more CAP at Blair when Woodward opens? Which ES boundaries are expected to change. Please post info or link to recent updates. |
Anonymous
| You're going to send all the Takoma Park people into a frenzy with these plans to move CAP over to Woodward! |
Anonymous
There are no recent updates. The latest timeline has Woodward opening in Fall 2027, and the boundary study happening in 2026. Currently there are no elementary schools included in the scope, only middle and high schools. |
Anonymous
Other than DCUM posts, what's the evidence the move is/was planned? |
Anonymous
This is not a rumor I have heard either, but, I would love for it to be considered. Blair people seem to think it is their god-given right to have SMCS and CAP at the school. Move CAP up to Kennedy. There is space. Woodward would have to be made part of the DCC to move CAP over to Woodward. This has been mentioned as an option, but no decision has been made as far as I know. I personally doubt CAP would be moved to Woodward. I would not be surprised if they add some sort of magnet to woodward to pull in students from other places. |
Anonymous
| Just pointing out that a boundary study is not the means by which a program such as CAP might be moved to another school. If that were to be explored, it would be an entirely separate process. |
Anonymous
| Didn't the BOE(!) ask for a few ES to be included in the study? Confused how this works, help -- veteran dcum-ers! |
Anonymous
During a board meeting last year, a couple of BOE members did express interest in including elementary schools in the Woodward study (even though the board had previously voted to include only middle and high schools). This was more of a discussion, not an official request. No one actually made a motion to amend the study's scope. So, as of now the study remains as one for middle and high school boundaries only. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
CAP is a DCC program. Woodward is less downcounty than say BCC. I don't see why it would be part of the DCC. |
Anonymous
Woodward is where CAP is headed. One of the reasons that Woodward's reopening was green-lighted was to relieve chronic overcrowding in the DCC, not just pacify westside parents concerned with a few portables at Walter Johnson. (That would have looked too unfair, right?) Blair is overenrolled and one way to relieve its overcrowding is to take a reliably consistent number of students (CAP cohorts = 75 students per year) and move it to Woodward, once Woodward reopens. A faux study will be conducted to determine if this is a good idea, but it will turn out to be a good idea. Takoma Park parents, you better start organizing now - maybe if you push really hard for a persistent amount of time, you can change things. Here's a link referencing the issue. Don't let the word salad injection about Northwood HS overcrowding deceive you. How would you pull a cohort from any of the DCC HS geographical catchment areas to attend Woodward? You couldn't guarantee the numbers. It's going to be Blair's CAP: https://moco360.media/2023/02/28/burtonsville-elementary-to-relocate-woodward-high-opening-planned-for-2026-school-board-says/#:~:text=Woodward%20High%20School.,schools%20in%20the%20Downcounty%20Consortium. The school board then discussed the boundary scope for the reopening of Charles W. Woodward High School. Funds were approved to reopen the school to address crowding at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda and high schools in the Downcounty Consortium. “This [project] is related to not only the opening of the new Woodward, which is currently under construction, but also the rebuilding and expansion of Northwood [High School]. So, with that added capacity, it is necessitating the need to go through a boundary study process,” Adams said. Funds were also approved for a facility upgrade and expansion of Silver Spring’s Northwood High School. |
Anonymous
Why would Woodward have to be made part of the DCC to move the CAP to Woodward? It would not. Now, Woodward parents might get upset that their dear children cannot be part of a CAP that is instead into their new school from Blair, but that is the price they will pay in return for a new high school building and not having their children taught in portables at WJ. |
Anonymous
That question will be answered by the not-yet-started boundary study. There are many, many ways that this could all shake out, and anyone claiming with certainty that X will happen or that Y will never happen is not doing this discussion any favors. |
Anonymous
You must work for central office. |
Anonymous
Nope, just a longtime MCPS parent who knows how things work. |