New Woodward High School
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Anonymous
The BoE already said Woodward is to relieve overcrowding at WJ and in the DCC (with Northwood in the DCC also getting larger). Why would the BoE want to kick the hornet's nest and add BCC to the study? |
Anonymous
So you think they'll bus kids across county? Doubtful! They'll make room at the schools adjacent to Woodward and then replace them with kids from overcrowded schools. |
Anonymous
The "schools adjacent to Woodward" and the "overcrowded schools" are in fact the same schools: WJ, Wheaton, and Einstein. |
Anonymous
Why do you keep insisting that moving kids from Einstein and Wheaton to Woodward is moving them across county? A basic search would show you that there are a handful of feeders to those DCC schools that are closer to Woodward than any of BCCs feeders are. But keep your weird BCC-Woodward fanfic going. |
Anonymous
And BCC, which is just as close as the other schools... |
Anonymous
See the post above yours  Since BCC doesn’t need to have overcrowding relieved, it makes no sense to move BCC feeders to Woodward instead of the closer Einstein and Wheaton feeders.
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Anonymous
True, but schools adjacent to it do so it will likely play its part. |
Anonymous
It has no part to play in reducing the overcrowding in the DCC and WJ. Blair’s overcrowding is going to be addressed by the Northwood expansion. There are no Wheaton feeders adjacent to BCC. The Einstein feeders that could be considered adjacent are OTES, Flora Singer, and Woodlin. There is zero chance that Einstein’s highest performing feeder gets re-zoned to BCC. Part of OTES is in the walk zone to Einstein, and is also closer to Woodward than it is to BCC. That just leaves Flora Singer, and it doesn’t make any sense to move kids from BCC to Woodward just so Flora Singer can be re-zoned to BCC. The shuffling between Einstein, Wheaton and Woodward is what makes geographic sense and follows the stated objective of reducing crowding in the DCC and at WJ. |
Anonymous
But apparently that's "across county" to people who never travel in that direction. |
Anonymous
The Troll is strong in this one. |
Anonymous
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Since NOTHING has been decided as far as who will attend Woodward, and NOTHING will be decoded until 18 months before Woodward opens, every single suggestion, recommendation, thought or declaration mentioned are just guesses.
18 months prior to Woodward opening, MCPS will let everyone know what they've decided the plan will be, and some poor suckers will sit through a panel, wasting their time making suggestions and recommendations, that MCPS and the BOE will likely ignore, 100% doing what they wanted to do in the first place. |
Anonymous
Look when we talk about neighborhood schools we mean W's and BCC. It's okay to bus the rest of the county. |
Anonymous
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https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/faa.pdf
Two of the four factors of boundary changes are "Stability of school assignments over time" and "Facility utilization", where "plans should result in facility utilizations in the 80 percent to 100 percent efficient range over the long term, whenever possible." According to the CIP, BCC is in the mid 90% utilization now and won't get over 100% for quite a while. In what dreamscape would someone suggest the BoE go against a couple factors to include BCC in a boundary study when they've already excluded it from the discussion? Some trolls try too hard. |
Anonymous
The BoE has decided that Woodward would be used to relieve overcrowding at WJ and the DCC. |
Anonymous
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Current Board of Education is not required to abide by what the previous Board of Education has decided.
18 months before Woodward opens (reopens?), the then current Board of Education will decide who will attend Woodward, and from what feeder schools. |