Brainstorming refinements to Option 1 of Woodward Study

[Anonymous]

As someone suggested - here is a brainstorming thread. Option 1 but with following changes: Viers Mill to WJ to deal with overcrowding and FARMs discrepancies; bus distance is approximately 5 miles but on main roads to mitigate time spent on the road.

What are some other suggestions?

[Anonymous]

You’re misreading, VM goes to Woodward under Option 1. But could do Viers Mills to WJ and Wheaton Woods to Woodward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone suggested - here is a brainstorming thread. Option 1 but with following changes: Viers Mill to WJ to deal with overcrowding and FARMs discrepancies; bus distance is approximately 5 miles but on main roads to mitigate time spent on the road.

What are some other suggestions?

What exactly makes you believe central office really cares about your brainstorming?

DP here

I mean it's fair to discuss alternatives here for folks to bring to the in person meetings.

Personally I don't think it will make much of an impact. I do wonder if they purposefully made the options bad so they can "refine" them and pretend it was based on community input.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it’s fair to ship that island of Rosemary Hills kids out to WJ instead of continuing to have them at BCC. Seems like they are being used as pawns to improve FARMS rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone suggested - here is a brainstorming thread. Option 1 but with following changes: Viers Mill to WJ to deal with overcrowding and FARMs discrepancies; bus distance is approximately 5 miles but on main roads to mitigate time spent on the road.

What are some other suggestions?

You can't just shift Viers Mill to WJ without identifying what will shift out of WJ by doing it.

I think modificaiton of option 4 works best. You put entire Garrett Park in Woodward instead of WJ , put entire Viers Mill in WJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone suggested - here is a brainstorming thread. Option 1 but with following changes: Viers Mill to WJ to deal with overcrowding and FARMs discrepancies; bus distance is approximately 5 miles but on main roads to mitigate time spent on the road.

What are some other suggestions?

You can't just shift Viers Mill to WJ without identifying what will shift out of WJ by doing it.

I think modificaiton of option 4 works best. You put entire Garrett Park in Woodward instead of WJ , put entire Viers Mill in WJ.

It makes sense to have Garrett Park go to Woodward anyway, with the rest of Tilden. Why would you have them split off from their middle school friends for high school?

[Anonymous]

I just want to open the old ABC maps. Draw circles around each HS. Where there is overlap, parents can pick school A or B. This doesn't have to be this hard. Schools are the foundation of community building. What a FARMS community needs is very different then a high SES community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just want to open the old ABC maps. Draw circles around each HS. Where there is overlap, parents can pick school A or B. This doesn't have to be this hard. Schools are the foundation of community building. What a FARMS community needs is very different then a high SES community.

Most kids that receive FARMS are hard working and want to learn. Their families care deeply about their education. You are explicitly promoting segregated education, which has been shown time and again to utterly fail communities of color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone suggested - here is a brainstorming thread. Option 1 but with following changes: Viers Mill to WJ to deal with overcrowding and FARMs discrepancies; bus distance is approximately 5 miles but on main roads to mitigate time spent on the road.

What are some other suggestions?

You can't just shift Viers Mill to WJ without identifying what will shift out of WJ by doing it.

I think modificaiton of option 4 works best. You put entire Garrett Park in Woodward instead of WJ , put entire Viers Mill in WJ.

It makes sense to have Garrett Park go to Woodward anyway, with the rest of Tilden. Why would you have them split off from their middle school friends for high school?

Yeah people are talking about this on other thread. This seems like the most fruitful path to explore: option 4 with these mods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to open the old ABC maps. Draw circles around each HS. Where there is overlap, parents can pick school A or B. This doesn't have to be this hard. Schools are the foundation of community building. What a FARMS community needs is very different then a high SES community.

Most kids that receive FARMS are hard working and want to learn. Their families care deeply about their education. You are explicitly promoting segregated education, which has been shown time and again to utterly fail communities of color.

DP but you made up a lot of things that poster didn’t say. Why do that?

[Anonymous]

What is the economic impact if reducing farms? These schools get extra funding and perks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just want to open the old ABC maps. Draw circles around each HS. Where there is overlap, parents can pick school A or B. This doesn't have to be this hard. Schools are the foundation of community building. What a FARMS community needs is very different then a high SES community.

No, not true at all. These schools have a huge mix and there are high achievers. Many aren’t attending theses schools due to the lack of offerings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the economic impact if reducing farms? These schools get extra funding and perks.

I believe that is only the case if they are greater than 50% FARMS. So the concern would only be taking (say) a 55% FARMS school and adjusting so it is 45% (with some other school presumably going from 20 to 30%).

Are there schools that should be kept greater than 50% to keep the funding?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone suggested - here is a brainstorming thread. Option 1 but with following changes: Viers Mill to WJ to deal with overcrowding and FARMs discrepancies; bus distance is approximately 5 miles but on main roads to mitigate time spent on the road.

What are some other suggestions?

nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the economic impact if reducing farms? These schools get extra funding and perks.

I believe that is only the case if they are greater than 50% FARMS. So the concern would only be taking (say) a 55% FARMS school and adjusting so it is 45% (with some other school presumably going from 20 to 30%).

Are there schools that should be kept greater than 50% to keep the funding?

Yes, losing the farms status is significant