Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.

They need to tear down Einstein and expand it.

Not happening any time soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.

Einstein is part of the DCC, so part of a choice consortium. How do you disentangle that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

They might have worked that if they had built a new HS inside the beltway in the SS/TKPK area. But they eschewed that in favor of Woodward, promising that that would help ease DCC overcrowding, and then have been walking that help for the DCC back bit by bit ever since.

Unless they move DCC feeder ES's to pyramids to the west in cascading fashion or add the BCC pyramid (and maybe one or more of the Woodward/Whitman/WJ pyramids) to some modified consortium construct, the overcrowding of DCC schools will continue.

The only place left in the TP/SS geographic area big enough for a high school would be to take part of Sligo Golf Course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

They might have worked that if they had built a new HS inside the beltway in the SS/TKPK area. But they eschewed that in favor of Woodward, promising that that would help ease DCC overcrowding, and then have been walking that help for the DCC back bit by bit ever since.

Unless they move DCC feeder ES's to pyramids to the west in cascading fashion or add the BCC pyramid (and maybe one or more of the Woodward/Whitman/WJ pyramids) to some modified consortium construct, the overcrowding of DCC schools will continue.

The only place left in the TP/SS geographic area big enough for a high school would be to take part of Sligo Golf Course.

And that's just half a mile from Blair, so not an ideal location for a whole new high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

They might have worked that if they had built a new HS inside the beltway in the SS/TKPK area. But they eschewed that in favor of Woodward, promising that that would help ease DCC overcrowding, and then have been walking that help for the DCC back bit by bit ever since.

Unless they move DCC feeder ES's to pyramids to the west in cascading fashion or add the BCC pyramid (and maybe one or more of the Woodward/Whitman/WJ pyramids) to some modified consortium construct, the overcrowding of DCC schools will continue.

The only place left in the TP/SS geographic area big enough for a high school would be to take part of Sligo Golf Course.

And that's just half a mile from Blair, so not an ideal location for a whole new high school.

It's not like they don't have schools very close already. WJ/Woodward?

The problem is that the county hasn't done great planning, allowing continued densities where there isn't the school infrastructure or land capacity for such without sacrificing also overbooked (and undermaintained) parkland when considering the use needs of the denser communities.

A solution might be to allow much more verticality, but that also costs more. In the end, they seem to just shrug their shoulders in an oh-well-nothing-can-be-done-I-suppose way.

[Anonymous]

About a decade behind in planning. WJ over 3k!!! Larger than some colleges. They need two more HS already in addition to Woodward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About a decade behind in planning. WJ over 3k!!! Larger than some colleges. They need two more HS already in addition to Woodward.

They are in fact building three new HS buildings at Woodward, Northwood, and Crown, all supposedly opening in 2027.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boundary Study Update
The Request for Proposals (RFP) process for the Charles W. Woodward High School and Crown High School boundary studies has been extended. We will keep you updated throughout the process.

Any comments?

Check other thread in whom Taylor picked.