Second round options for Woodward boundary study

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They just said Edison will some house Wheaton! Newsflash!

So they are reducing enrollment at Edison, good to know!

Was Edison at capacity or did it already have extra space?

I do not think they have extra space. During the first round of options they said there is a "shell space" at Edison they could build out. But the Superintendent's recommended CIP released a few weeks ago recommends no funding for building it.

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They are saying they can add space to Edison for Wheaton classes. How are they going to add it? With what money?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:[MCPS] Join us today at 12 p.m. to learn more about proposed six region model - https://psqr.io/Jwyt8Q6ugh. Learn more - https://psqr.io/YGF6f9qGLP

They just said Edison will some house Wheaton! Newsflash!

So they are reducing enrollment at Edison, good to know!

Was Edison at capacity or did it already have extra space?

I do not think they have extra space. During the first round of options they said there is a "shell space" at Edison they could build out. But the Superintendent's recommended CIP released a few weeks ago recommends no funding for building it.

They said there is space.

How much empty space is there at Edison?

[jsteele]

I'm going to reopen this thread. One poster was repeatedly trolling and sock puppeting and has, therefore, been uninvited from the party.

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MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

This is why the regional program doesn't work. They should offer advanced classes equally at all schools and keep the DCC and let the other schools do their own consortia. The idea of making it equitable and equal will not happen. This is all for show. Wheaton is a good school. They make it work now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

This is why the regional program doesn't work. They should offer advanced classes equally at all schools and keep the DCC and let the other schools do their own consortia. The idea of making it equitable and equal will not happen. This is all for show. Wheaton is a good school. They make it work now.

advanced classes at all schools means no need for consortia, including the DCC. the money for admin and buses can be spent at home schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

This is why the regional program doesn't work. They should offer advanced classes equally at all schools and keep the DCC and let the other schools do their own consortia. The idea of making it equitable and equal will not happen. This is all for show. Wheaton is a good school. They make it work now.

advanced classes at all schools means no need for consortia, including the DCC. the money for admin and buses can be spent at home schools

Correct, but MCPS is clear that they aren't expanding the course offerings so the corsortia is necessary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

This is why the regional program doesn't work. They should offer advanced classes equally at all schools and keep the DCC and let the other schools do their own consortia. The idea of making it equitable and equal will not happen. This is all for show. Wheaton is a good school. They make it work now.

advanced classes at all schools means no need for consortia, including the DCC. the money for admin and buses can be spent at home schools

Correct, but MCPS is clear that they aren't expanding the course offerings so the corsortia is necessary.

consortia have not met their goals. time for something new

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

This is why the regional program doesn't work. They should offer advanced classes equally at all schools and keep the DCC and let the other schools do their own consortia. The idea of making it equitable and equal will not happen. This is all for show. Wheaton is a good school. They make it work now.

advanced classes at all schools means no need for consortia, including the DCC. the money for admin and buses can be spent at home schools

Correct, but MCPS is clear that they aren't expanding the course offerings so the corsortia is necessary.

consortia have not met their goals. time for something new

They did expand course offerings available to students who could travel. The regional model just makes the courses available to fewer kids with less transportation.

[Anonymous]

Is there anyway to get an AI summary of 85 pages of discussion?!

I'd like to take this in, but it's too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

This is why the regional program doesn't work. They should offer advanced classes equally at all schools and keep the DCC and let the other schools do their own consortia. The idea of making it equitable and equal will not happen. This is all for show. Wheaton is a good school. They make it work now.

advanced classes at all schools means no need for consortia, including the DCC. the money for admin and buses can be spent at home schools

Correct, but MCPS is clear that they aren't expanding the course offerings so the corsortia is necessary.

consortia have not met their goals. time for something new

They did expand course offerings available to students who could travel. The regional model just makes the courses available to fewer kids with less transportation.

Students shouldn’t have to travel and there is no guarantee students will get into the schools they need to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS school profiles lists a capacity of 1000 for Edison HS and an enrollment of 968. They don't have empty space. Maybe they only use half of the classrooms at any given time so they will have teachers share the classrooms? Can't MCPS just give a straight answer on this?

It sounds like there is some unbuilt space from what people are saying here, so they'd have to build it into classrooms. Its a trade school drawing students who are bused there from all over the county. They could maybe build it out but with what funds? It would make sense to build it out and offer more trade programs.

Right. First MCPS says they need to build the space. Then they say they are sending 500 Wheaton HS students to Edison CTE programs while simultaneously telling people they are going to keep Edison open to students countywide and putting out a CIP that includes $0 in funding to "build out" Edison. The story keeps changing. I suspect the real story is some people in North Bethesda insisted on keeping their schools 20%-30% empty despite systemwide declining enrollment, and the only way to make that work is to pretend there are 500 extra seats in Edison for Wheaton HS students to take...some kind of classes.

This is why the regional program doesn't work. They should offer advanced classes equally at all schools and keep the DCC and let the other schools do their own consortia. The idea of making it equitable and equal will not happen. This is all for show. Wheaton is a good school. They make it work now.

advanced classes at all schools means no need for consortia, including the DCC. the money for admin and buses can be spent at home schools

Correct, but MCPS is clear that they aren't expanding the course offerings so the corsortia is necessary.

consortia have not met their goals. time for something new

They did expand course offerings available to students who could travel. The regional model just makes the courses available to fewer kids with less transportation.

The regional model at least attempts to be the opposite of what you are saying. By placing comparable criteria and interest programs in all regions and providing transportation, there will be more opportunities not less. There will be a change but the result will be more seats and opportunities not less.