Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

People's insecurities surface in this discussion. "I spent a fortune to get into Bethesda. You're not in Bethesda, so you can't use 'Bethesda' in your neighborhood's name."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Curious why you think not? It’s a new school and they have the opportunity to do it. if they don’t it will exacerbate inequality across the local schools which is the opposite of their stated goals. Of course they will do it. They can do it with a new school without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents as with the W’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Curious why you think not? It’s a new school and they have the opportunity to do it. if they don’t it will exacerbate inequality across the local schools which is the opposite of their stated goals. Of course they will do it. They can do it with a new school without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents as with the W’s.

They don't have the opportunity to do it, though. As said earlier in the thread, the boundary study is to set the new service area [boundaries] for Woodward, as well as any other boundary changes to the high schools and/or middle schools in the study. The composition of the Downcounty Consortium may someday be changed, or it may be eliminated altogether, who knows, but that is not in-scope for the Woodward boundary study.

[Anonymous]

Similarly, whether or not Woodward will have an arts magnet or any other application programs will not be determined by the Woodward boundary study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Curious why you think not? It’s a new school and they have the opportunity to do it. if they don’t it will exacerbate inequality across the local schools which is the opposite of their stated goals. Of course they will do it. They can do it with a new school without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents as with the W’s.

No, they can't. They still need to move around current attending students no matter what. Every student (or really, every residence's address) is assigned to one school even if they are part of the DCC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

People's insecurities surface in this discussion. "I spent a fortune to get into Bethesda. You're not in Bethesda, so you can't use 'Bethesda' in your neighborhood's name."

Back in the 90s realtors called Shaw East DuPont.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

People's insecurities surface in this discussion. "I spent a fortune to get into Bethesda. You're not in Bethesda, so you can't use 'Bethesda' in your neighborhood's name."

Back in the 90s realtors called Shaw East DuPont.

Back in the 1890s, realtors called NoMa Swampoodle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Curious why you think not? It’s a new school and they have the opportunity to do it. if they don’t it will exacerbate inequality across the local schools which is the opposite of their stated goals. Of course they will do it. They can do it with a new school without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents as with the W’s.

No, they can't. They still need to move around current attending students no matter what. Every student (or really, every residence's address) is assigned to one school even if they are part of the DCC.

What? There are currrently no addresses assigned to Woodward (obviously.). No reason they couldn’t make it a dcc school. Once it opens it can still be dcc and/or magnet or whatever and still have dedicated in-bound students because the bounds are being drawn from scratch and will be Relocating kids from dcc and non dcc schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Curious why you think not? It’s a new school and they have the opportunity to do it. if they don’t it will exacerbate inequality across the local schools which is the opposite of their stated goals. Of course they will do it. They can do it with a new school without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents as with the W’s.

No, they can't. They still need to move around current attending students no matter what. Every student (or really, every residence's address) is assigned to one school even if they are part of the DCC.

What? There are currrently no addresses assigned to Woodward (obviously.). No reason they couldn’t make it a dcc school. Once it opens it can still be dcc and/or magnet or whatever and still have dedicated in-bound students because the bounds are being drawn from scratch and will be Relocating kids from dcc and non dcc schools.

Right. But the notion that adding Woodward to the DCC could happen "without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents" doesn't follow, because that would still happen either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Curious why you think not? It’s a new school and they have the opportunity to do it. if they don’t it will exacerbate inequality across the local schools which is the opposite of their stated goals. Of course they will do it. They can do it with a new school without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents as with the W’s.

No, they can't. They still need to move around current attending students no matter what. Every student (or really, every residence's address) is assigned to one school even if they are part of the DCC.

What? There are currrently no addresses assigned to Woodward (obviously.). No reason they couldn’t make it a dcc school. Once it opens it can still be dcc and/or magnet or whatever and still have dedicated in-bound students because the bounds are being drawn from scratch and will be Relocating kids from dcc and non dcc schools.

DP. Here is one question: which addresses should be assigned to Woodward? The boundary study will answer this question. Here is a different question: which schools should be part of the DCC? The boundary study will not answer this question.

What's more, even if "which schools should be part of the DCC" were part of the boundary study, which it is not, the decision to include Woodward in the DCC would still reassign students to (or from) the DCC, as part of the reassignment to (or from) a given high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

People's insecurities surface in this discussion. "I spent a fortune to get into Bethesda. You're not in Bethesda, so you can't use 'Bethesda' in your neighborhood's name."

Back in the 90s realtors called Shaw East DuPont.

Back in the 1890s, realtors called NoMa Swampoodle.

This may be the best comment I've ever read on this wacky message board. Respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

I believe it is a place…. Just full of strivers who can’t afford what they want in Bethesda but who are ashamed to use a Rockville address. I sorry it bothers you so much that most people consider the area along rockville pike Rockville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

People's insecurities surface in this discussion. "I spent a fortune to get into Bethesda. You're not in Bethesda, so you can't use 'Bethesda' in your neighborhood's name."

Back in the 90s realtors called Shaw East DuPont.

Back in the 1890s, realtors called NoMa Swampoodle.

Would that make Eckington North Swampoodle ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

I believe it is a place…. Just full of strivers who can’t afford what they want in Bethesda but who are ashamed to use a Rockville address. I sorry it bothers you so much that most people consider the area along rockville pike Rockville

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

People's insecurities surface in this discussion. "I spent a fortune to get into Bethesda. You're not in Bethesda, so you can't use 'Bethesda' in your neighborhood's name."