Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

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Anonymous wrote:Every time someone says option 3 is a possibility I go take the survey again, using a different vpn.

Are you under the impression this survey is some sort of opportunity to vote and that the BOE will just choose what people "vote" for?

Why would you discourage civic engagement?

I'm only discouraging people with an outsized expectation of how much influence they should have. Filling out a survey multiple times is not civic engagement btw. PP should go to the in person meetings if they want to genuinely engage.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, I don’t even know why DCC schools want W kids in their schools so badly. The kids are quite nice but can be entitled and anxious at the same time, without even realizing it. Many are very rich, some just regular rich, and think everyone else is too.

Many of the parents are cut throat and will take over PTSA/booster etc. They will not tolerate poor behavior/bullying from other students or poor teaching and their definition of that is different than yours. Many of them won’t stop until your kid is shipped off to another school.

I could go on and on but I know this is stereotyping. It’s just that I’ve seen it a lot over the years.

What? Where did you get that idea?

Yeah, I’m not hearing any DCC parents say that IRL and DCC teachers certainly aren’t jonesing for W students or their parents.

What makes you think we are all poor and want to be at W schools?

If you’re in the DCC odds are you are a poor. I would definitely send my kid to private if I lived in one of the nicer DCC areas like Woodside, Woodside Park or certain areas of Takoma Park.

Basically no one on this website is poor. There are definitely poor families in the DCC, but none of them are in this conversation. You're talking to middle class parents of which the DCC also has a lot.

DCC MCPS family here, HHI +600k. This socioeconomic diverse area aligns with our values.

[Anonymous]

The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

you think high schoolers read DCUM?

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Anonymous wrote:Your kids will be fine! Bethesda to downtown SS is really not very far. Kids adapt and adjust.

Is that option 3? Where is Bethesda being bused to downtown SS? What HS is in downtown SS?

Ha there isn’t one. People are just making things up at this point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

you think high schoolers read DCUM?

faster than you can click “submit”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

you think high schoolers read DCUM?

I do not think a lot of them do, but some absolutely do. And this type of talk is not just happening here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

I appreciate this comment as a DCC parent. It’s also wild to see people lose their minds over getting rezoned to Blair. We’re already zoned for Blair, and so many of our nearby neighbors wish they were zoned for Blair.

(I understand not wanting to be bused far away, but let’s not pretend that was the only way this came up negatively among west county folks.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

THEY KNOW.

(my God, you're naive)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

THEY KNOW.

(my God, you're naive)

Are you saying THEY KNOW that they are not capable of being high achieving? Or that they know that you think that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

I appreciate this comment as a DCC parent. It’s also wild to see people lose their minds over getting rezoned to Blair. We’re already zoned for Blair, and so many of our nearby neighbors wish they were zoned for Blair.

(I understand not wanting to be bused far away, but let’s not pretend that was the only way this came up negatively among west county folks.)

For us it we want our kids to walk to school. They can with B-CC right around the corner for us. Blair is far in traffic and with stops. Not happening for us. We would move before we did it. (We will not go private.) We are not anti-diversity. We like the cluster because it is diverse. (Keep in mind our kids have been bussed to Rosemary Hills to create diversity.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

I appreciate this comment as a DCC parent. It’s also wild to see people lose their minds over getting rezoned to Blair. We’re already zoned for Blair, and so many of our nearby neighbors wish they were zoned for Blair.

(I understand not wanting to be bused far away, but let’s not pretend that was the only way this came up negatively among west county folks.)

It’s about proximity for most. The people you are saying have lost their minds about Blair would also lose their minds about switching to Churchill if they are located in downtown Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

THEY KNOW.

(my God, you're naive)

Are you saying THEY KNOW that they are not capable of being high achieving? Or that they know that you think that?

Our kids are very capable if given the opportunities but we simply don’t have them outside of Blair and Wheaton. Our school actively discourages anything past calc ab as they refuse to offer anything past bc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

you think high schoolers read DCUM?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

I appreciate this comment as a DCC parent. It’s also wild to see people lose their minds over getting rezoned to Blair. We’re already zoned for Blair, and so many of our nearby neighbors wish they were zoned for Blair.

(I understand not wanting to be bused far away, but let’s not pretend that was the only way this came up negatively among west county folks.)

For us it we want our kids to walk to school. They can with B-CC right around the corner for us. Blair is far in traffic and with stops. Not happening for us. We would move before we did it. (We will not go private.) We are not anti-diversity. We like the cluster because it is diverse. (Keep in mind our kids have been bussed to Rosemary Hills to create diversity.)

I mean, I get that. I live in DTSS because I like the pedestrian life so it definitely sucks that our closest high school is outside the beltway. I do feel like the reactions here are highlighting the huge mistake it was not to build a high school downtown— if proximity is indeed everyone’s top concern!