Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

[Anonymous]

Split articuation is non issue to me. I want to see good utilization and less travel time and balance the schools as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I listened to the zoom call and did not like the happy/cheery attitudes of the speakers. This is very disruptive to people’s families with all the bussing across county in option 3 and they are laughing and so proud of all their tools.

That seemed incredibly tone deaf to me.

Yup. It's all shiny and pretty and so removed from the communities. We have 160k students. It's about them and their families.

Well they did fire the PR firm that was going to handle public engagement. This is what you get when they do it themselves.

So very tone deaf. Have an ounce of empathy. It’s not all about your pretty maps and charts. These are real families with real lives, many of whom are already being impacted by the DOGE efforts. And these changes under option 3 will devastate anyone who gets bussed — whether to the East or the West — from the closest school to their home. Moving will be hard to stay close to home.

But no one is getting bussed east. Equity fixing is at the expense of bussing east to west and making it "those" kids come to the "nice school". Not the other way around.

[Anonymous]

I live in Kensington Heights, zoned for Einstein in all scenarios. I would love option 3 because just three blocks away kids live closer to Einstein than me but are bussed all the way to WJ.

But we know option 3 will never happen.

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much--what I mean is, 2024-25 6th grader--will they get to stay in their current MS for the last year (8th)? Insights? tysm

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Anonymous wrote:Just reminding everyone that every option is going to have people within walking distance of one school sent to a different school further away, and neighbors on neighboring streets zoned to different schools. That's inevitable due to the geography of where schools are located and the nature of boundaries. It is true of some people now and will be true of different people in different options. The fact that it is true of you personally in one or another of the options does not make that option any worse than the others. Feel free to complain that you personally don't like it, but please try to restrain yourself on the "this is a terrible option because my family happens to be the ones close to X school who have to take a bus somewhere further away."

Very true. In the current system we can walk to Northwood and Blair but are zoned for Einstein. Only one of the four options switches us to a school we could walk to.

With the dcc you can lottery into another school.

DCC will go away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I listened to the zoom call and did not like the happy/cheery attitudes of the speakers. This is very disruptive to people’s families with all the bussing across county in option 3 and they are laughing and so proud of all their tools.

That seemed incredibly tone deaf to me.

Yup. It's all shiny and pretty and so removed from the communities. We have 160k students. It's about them and their families.

Well they did fire the PR firm that was going to handle public engagement. This is what you get when they do it themselves.

So very tone deaf. Have an ounce of empathy. It’s not all about your pretty maps and charts. These are real families with real lives, many of whom are already being impacted by the DOGE efforts. And these changes under option 3 will devastate anyone who gets bussed — whether to the East or the West — from the closest school to their home. Moving will be hard to stay close to home.

Is option 3 really that bad? I feel like most kids have like a 15-30 minute commute to high school right now, right? Are there that many neighborhoods in option 3 that would be significantly outside that range?

Omg no. 10 minutes at most for us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Options 2-4 have a ton of split articulation. I wish there was another option with less split articulation.

It’s already split articulation with the myriad of options families get in MCPS for immersion, CES, magnets, lotteries, etc to go anywhere except their home school

Immersion and CES are choices not requirements and parents take that into consideration including bus rides when making a decision to apply and enroll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listened to the zoom call and did not like the happy/cheery attitudes of the speakers. This is very disruptive to people’s families with all the bussing across county in option 3 and they are laughing and so proud of all their tools.

That seemed incredibly tone deaf to me.

Yup. It's all shiny and pretty and so removed from the communities. We have 160k students. It's about them and their families.

Well they did fire the PR firm that was going to handle public engagement. This is what you get when they do it themselves.

So very tone deaf. Have an ounce of empathy. It’s not all about your pretty maps and charts. These are real families with real lives, many of whom are already being impacted by the DOGE efforts. And these changes under option 3 will devastate anyone who gets bussed — whether to the East or the West — from the closest school to their home. Moving will be hard to stay close to home.

But no one is getting bussed east. Equity fixing is at the expense of bussing east to west and making it "those" kids come to the "nice school". Not the other way around.

Plenty of kids are bussed east under option 3. Farmland => Kennedy. Garrett Park => Wheaton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Options 2-4 have a ton of split articulation. I wish there was another option with less split articulation.

It’s already split articulation with the myriad of options families get in MCPS for immersion, CES, magnets, lotteries, etc to go anywhere except their home school

That’s not true. There are very few seats in those programs. Much more common in high schools but the middle school magnets are not that large. People want neighborhood schools with very minimal split articulation as the baseline.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just reminding everyone that every option is going to have people within walking distance of one school sent to a different school further away, and neighbors on neighboring streets zoned to different schools. That's inevitable due to the geography of where schools are located and the nature of boundaries. It is true of some people now and will be true of different people in different options. The fact that it is true of you personally in one or another of the options does not make that option any worse than the others. Feel free to complain that you personally don't like it, but please try to restrain yourself on the "this is a terrible option because my family happens to be the ones close to X school who have to take a bus somewhere further away."

Very true. In the current system we can walk to Northwood and Blair but are zoned for Einstein. Only one of the four options switches us to a school we could walk to.

With the dcc you can lottery into another school.

DCC will go away.

Why would they do that? Not all schools have advanced classes so will they fix that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listened to the zoom call and did not like the happy/cheery attitudes of the speakers. This is very disruptive to people’s families with all the bussing across county in option 3 and they are laughing and so proud of all their tools.

That seemed incredibly tone deaf to me.

Yup. It's all shiny and pretty and so removed from the communities. We have 160k students. It's about them and their families.

Well they did fire the PR firm that was going to handle public engagement. This is what you get when they do it themselves.

So very tone deaf. Have an ounce of empathy. It’s not all about your pretty maps and charts. These are real families with real lives, many of whom are already being impacted by the DOGE efforts. And these changes under option 3 will devastate anyone who gets bussed — whether to the East or the West — from the closest school to their home. Moving will be hard to stay close to home.

But no one is getting bussed east. Equity fixing is at the expense of bussing east to west and making it "those" kids come to the "nice school". Not the other way around.

Plenty of kids are bussed east under option 3. Farmland => Kennedy. Garrett Park => Wheaton.

Garrett park to Wheaton makes no sense. Do the planners have no concept of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just reminding everyone that every option is going to have people within walking distance of one school sent to a different school further away, and neighbors on neighboring streets zoned to different schools. That's inevitable due to the geography of where schools are located and the nature of boundaries. It is true of some people now and will be true of different people in different options. The fact that it is true of you personally in one or another of the options does not make that option any worse than the others. Feel free to complain that you personally don't like it, but please try to restrain yourself on the "this is a terrible option because my family happens to be the ones close to X school who have to take a bus somewhere further away."

Very true. In the current system we can walk to Northwood and Blair but are zoned for Einstein. Only one of the four options switches us to a school we could walk to.

Same. That won't change. Blair serves too large and area that has no other school further south of it. We need a downtown SS/TP High school that will never be built.

It makes no sense not to have a school down county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listened to the zoom call and did not like the happy/cheery attitudes of the speakers. This is very disruptive to people’s families with all the bussing across county in option 3 and they are laughing and so proud of all their tools.

That seemed incredibly tone deaf to me.

Yup. It's all shiny and pretty and so removed from the communities. We have 160k students. It's about them and their families.

Well they did fire the PR firm that was going to handle public engagement. This is what you get when they do it themselves.

So very tone deaf. Have an ounce of empathy. It’s not all about your pretty maps and charts. These are real families with real lives, many of whom are already being impacted by the DOGE efforts. And these changes under option 3 will devastate anyone who gets bussed — whether to the East or the West — from the closest school to their home. Moving will be hard to stay close to home.

But no one is getting bussed east. Equity fixing is at the expense of bussing east to west and making it "those" kids come to the "nice school". Not the other way around.

Plenty of kids are bussed east under option 3. Farmland => Kennedy. Garrett Park => Wheaton.

Garrett park to Wheaton makes no sense. Do the planners have no concept of the county.

Farmland to Kennedy makes even less sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listened to the zoom call and did not like the happy/cheery attitudes of the speakers. This is very disruptive to people’s families with all the bussing across county in option 3 and they are laughing and so proud of all their tools.

That seemed incredibly tone deaf to me.

Yup. It's all shiny and pretty and so removed from the communities. We have 160k students. It's about them and their families.

Well they did fire the PR firm that was going to handle public engagement. This is what you get when they do it themselves.

So very tone deaf. Have an ounce of empathy. It’s not all about your pretty maps and charts. These are real families with real lives, many of whom are already being impacted by the DOGE efforts. And these changes under option 3 will devastate anyone who gets bussed — whether to the East or the West — from the closest school to their home. Moving will be hard to stay close to home.

But no one is getting bussed east. Equity fixing is at the expense of bussing east to west and making it "those" kids come to the "nice school". Not the other way around.

Plenty of kids are bussed east under option 3. Farmland => Kennedy. Garrett Park => Wheaton.

Garrett park to Wheaton makes no sense. Do the planners have no concept of the county.

Farmland to Kennedy makes even less sense.

Whoever drew the maps seems unaware of the train tracks on Montrose and thinks people can teleport across Rock Creek Park. What lunacy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Then what are we paying these consultants for?

Honestly should have skipped paying thousands to "consultants" and used AI to generate options. In fact I'm sure someone will do just that and come up with more viable options.

+1 this is a clear job for AI