Option B Alternate - Adding extra ES to WJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re looking at the “maximum FARMs now or in the past” statistic. Wow. Current farms is much less.

Not exactly the maximum rate ever, but the proportion of the current population that has ever received FARMS. Even if they don't currently qualify for FARMS, having required the assistance in the near past is a pretty good indication that they don't currently have robust financial resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The superintendent's recommendation for Woodward/WJ was odd and not in alignment with the board's clearly stated goals.

The WJ cluster is currently made up of Tilden MS (Farmland ES, Luxmanor ES and Garrett Park ES) and North Bethesda MS (Ashburton ES, Wyngate ES and Kensington Parkwood ES). He recommends adding two more elementary schools - Wheaton Woods and Viers Mill. Both of these schools have substantially higher poverty with 95% FARMS rates. Rather than put one at each high school to better balance the FARMS rate, the recommendation puts Garrett Park (splitting off from Tilden) and puts both WW and VM at Woodward. Small "islands" of GP and KP also go to Woodward. All of this means that Woodward is close to 40% FARMS and WJ is 13%. WJ would also be at 77% utilitzation and Woodward at 91% - also odd because of all the multi-family development going up in the new Woodward cluster. WJ might have some development but not nearly as much. So in addition to Woodward having much higher poverty than WJ it is also likely to be overcrowded almost immediately.

It is completely contrary to what the BOE has been trying to achieve and goes directly against their Policy FAA. Was there a data error? It is politically motivated? Do powerful people live in the Towns of Kensington and Garrett Park? Lots of people are struggling to make sense of this one!

The KP and GP islands are next to Woodward. Of course they should go there.

KP and GP neighborhoods near those schools already go to WJ. No harm keeping them there.

Both schools are under capacity and it is a regional model with magnets. WJ will take on some kids to their magnet.

Don’t over state the data. It’s not 40% FARMS at Woodward. Even if it were that is lower than MCPS average.

VM ES was always recommended for Woodward. That was not a bait and switch. Based on community feedback he added Wheaton Woods too

[Anonymous]

The racist comments don't work in this situation. There are two new schools coming into the cluster. The BOE has consistently stated that they want to balance the FARMS rates. Then, when given the opportunity to do it, they don't. We should all be asking why.

One of the new schools to the cluster should absolutely be at Woodward. It makes total sense. But why shouldn't one go to WJ?

[Anonymous]

They need to move chunks of Kensington to Einstein finally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to move chunks of Kensington to Einstein finally.

+1

[Anonymous]

They left Woodlin at Einstein as a new island. That was to balance FARMS.

They can create islands for Wheaton Woods or Viers Mill to go to WJ and send all of Garrett Park to Woodward for the same reason.

Those articulation splits? Prime candidates for rezoning with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

But see the dark black line? The one separating regions? This is among the places they went wrong, not allowing any swap of elementary catchments that would cross that line. Nothing from WJ to Whitman, of course, or swaps with BCC (cue MC Hammer). Totally unnecessary, as the line could have been drawn with the same high schools after figuring out a better rezoning articulation.

Same shoot-yourself-in-the-foot constraint on the Crown study. Not to mention the failure at any point to combine the studies to allow logical swaps between, say, Churchill and Whitman, or RM and Woodward, or...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They left Woodlin at Einstein as a new island. That was to balance FARMS.

They can create islands for Wheaton Woods or Viers Mill to go to WJ and send all of Garrett Park to Woodward for the same reason.

Those articulation splits? Prime candidates for rezoning with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

But see the dark black line? The one separating regions? This is among the places they went wrong, not allowing any swap of elementary catchments that would cross that line. Nothing from WJ to Whitman, of course, or swaps with BCC (cue MC Hammer). Totally unnecessary, as the line could have been drawn with the same high schools after figuring out a better rezoning articulation.

Same shoot-yourself-in-the-foot constraint on the Crown study. Not to mention the failure at any point to combine the studies to allow logical swaps between, say, Churchill and Whitman, or RM and Woodward, or...

Switching 2 elmentary schools to WJ at the 11th hour to please Farmland families who bought in the wrong neighborhood is arbitrary and capricious. This faced a year of notice and comment. Everyone knew Woodward was taking on some DCC, not WJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They left Woodlin at Einstein as a new island. That was to balance FARMS.

They can create islands for Wheaton Woods or Viers Mill to go to WJ and send all of Garrett Park to Woodward for the same reason.

Those articulation splits? Prime candidates for rezoning with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

But see the dark black line? The one separating regions? This is among the places they went wrong, not allowing any swap of elementary catchments that would cross that line. Nothing from WJ to Whitman, of course, or swaps with BCC (cue MC Hammer). Totally unnecessary, as the line could have been drawn with the same high schools after figuring out a better rezoning articulation.

Same shoot-yourself-in-the-foot constraint on the Crown study. Not to mention the failure at any point to combine the studies to allow logical swaps between, say, Churchill and Whitman, or RM and Woodward, or...

Switching 2 elmentary schools to WJ at the 11th hour to please Farmland families who bought in the wrong neighborhood is arbitrary and capricious. This faced a year of notice and comment. Everyone knew Woodward was taking on some DCC, not WJ

You sicken me

[Anonymous]

It's so sad how people justify hurting poor kids to prop up their property values

[Anonymous]

It’s literally a Luxmanor Realtor who started the change.org petition. She is scared about her commissions going down. What a loser

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to move chunks of Kensington to Einstein finally.

+1

That may happen when the elementary school boundary study takes place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wheaton Woods family here. I’m ashamed of you people who don’t want my kids going to school at Woodward. Sorry we don’t make as much money, but Wheaton was over crowded. Grateful for Superintendent leadership here

Viers Mill family here and I agree. You are all shameful racists acting like you are trying to do us a favor by sending us to WJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wheaton Woods family here. I’m ashamed of you people who don’t want my kids going to school at Woodward. Sorry we don’t make as much money, but Wheaton was over crowded. Grateful for Superintendent leadership here

Viers Mill family here and I agree. You are all shameful racists acting like you are trying to do us a favor by sending us to WJ.

+1 I’ma VM family too and disgusted my kids will need go to school with these snobs at Farmland. I don’t want you either. Trying to use my family as a pawn for your property value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They left Woodlin at Einstein as a new island. That was to balance FARMS.

They can create islands for Wheaton Woods or Viers Mill to go to WJ and send all of Garrett Park to Woodward for the same reason.

Those articulation splits? Prime candidates for rezoning with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

But see the dark black line? The one separating regions? This is among the places they went wrong, not allowing any swap of elementary catchments that would cross that line. Nothing from WJ to Whitman, of course, or swaps with BCC (cue MC Hammer). Totally unnecessary, as the line could have been drawn with the same high schools after figuring out a better rezoning articulation.

Same shoot-yourself-in-the-foot constraint on the Crown study. Not to mention the failure at any point to combine the studies to allow logical swaps between, say, Churchill and Whitman, or RM and Woodward, or...

Switching 2 elmentary schools to WJ at the 11th hour to please Farmland families who bought in the wrong neighborhood is arbitrary and capricious. This faced a year of notice and comment. Everyone knew Woodward was taking on some DCC, not WJ

This iteration was presented at the 11th hour. The original Option B had Viers Mill at Woodward. His recommendation added Wheaton Woods as well which drove up the utilization and FARM rates at Woodward higher.

[Anonymous]

GP family. We want what the Superintendent proposed. We will testify as such. Keep us out of your fight, Luxmanor and Farmland. We aren’t your chess piece.