Send the superintendent and the BOE an email so you can sleep better at night. Nobody on here cares about this extremely minor point about one of the worst high schools in the county |
You mean nobody cares that Wheaton HS is left 27% over capacity on 3 of the 4 new boundary options and 116% over capacity on the 4th option? I'm definitely not the only person who is angry about this. |
+1. This is irresponsible with all the new seats opening at Northwood and Woodward. |
That is a blatant falsehood. Go put your eyeglasses on and look at your charts. They are a smidge above capacity or right at it. Lies lies lies |
Agree that the Wheaton brigade is misrepresenting data and claiming that MCPS is misrepresenting it instead. It's unbelievable what you're trying to argue. You have plenty of seats. |
94.5-103.9% capacity for options A-D. Fake news alert. |
+1. Wheaton guy is untruthful https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/woodward-boundary-options/home |
That makes no sense since those tables list a capacity that is 500 slots larger than the Wheaton HS capacity that is listed in the Superintendent's proposed CIP released a few weeks ago. Using the actual capacity of Wheaton HS as confirmed in multiple MCPS documents the new boundary options propose boundaries that leave Wheaton HS over capacity by 27% in 3 of 4 options and 16% in the other option. Meanwhile Woodward and WJ are left 20%-30% under capacity. Below is some more background: The Superintendent's just released proposed CIP lists a capacity of 2,220 for Wheaton HS. Current enrollment is 2,687. According the the MCPS school profiles, in 2023-24 Edison had an enrollment of 968 students. However, the new boundary options give Wheaton HS a capacity of 2,720. Under the tables for the boundary options are two notes: 1. "Wheaton HS includes the capacity of Edison HS" And 2. "Assumes 500 students attend Wheaton HS for CTE" Why do the boundary study tables say that the capacity number includes Edison HS and Wheaton HS? Edison has 1000 students enrolled and they only added 500. Is this because Edison is part time so it actually only has 500 spots of capacity at any given time? If so, is it assumed that a full 1000 students zoned for Wheaton will attend Edison part time from Wheaton HS? Isn't that a ton of students? And they've said Edison will still be available to other clusters so that makes no sense. Or is it "only" 500 students zoned for Wheaton attending Edison part time (still a ton)? If Edison is a part time program, and 500 students attend that program from Wheaton HS, won't they still be at Wheaton HS for some courses? If so, why do the boundary options assume that Edison relieves 500 seats of capacity at Wheaton HS? |
Students at Edison have a home school. They generally spend a half day at Edison depending on the program. |
Yeah so if 500 students zoned for Wheaton, which is 1 in 5 resident students, attend Edison they still have to take classes at Wheaton. It's bizarre to add capacity at a different school to Wheaton. Will students be zoned for Wheaton be forced to attend Edison full time, in which case they would not be able to complete the requirements to earn a high school diploma? |
+1 |
Same campus. They'll get their high school degree like everyone else. They might use a little real estate at Edison for PE or English class |
| Since when did the Woodward Boundary Study get hijacked into the Wheaton Boundary Study? Y'all have two schools on the same grounds are a b*chin |
To do that they would need to vastly reduce slots at Edisonfor kids from other clusters, and they haven't suggested they plan to do that (they have actually emphasized Edison will continue to be open to kids from other clusters) |
The BOE approved a list of high schools including Wheaton to be part of the boundary study. What did you think they would do, bring in kids from another dimension to fill Woodward? |