Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

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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.

Is that really a thing? 15-30 min commute? We're 5 min without traffic, maybe 10 with

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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.

So that's a good bit less than a mile walk, right? I don't think that's typical for most people. I think it's more common to be in the 1-2 mile range which would take a lot longer.

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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.

Did they release the results of the priorities survey?

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Anonymous wrote: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

8th graders in 2026-27 would still be at their current school because the new boundaries aren't starting until fall 2027.

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Anonymous wrote: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

A current 6th grader will be in 9th grade in the 2027/28 school year, and will start at whatever high school their address is newly assigned to.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Total opposite for me. Split articulation is the biggest issue to me.

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Remember the process to change bell times? A year of talk and pretty minimal change that no one cares about anymore (if ever did)?

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Anonymous wrote:When will this take effect? If a student is in their last year of MS then will they be moved to a new school for 1 year??

No,current 8th graders will stay at their schools to finish 11th and 12th grade.

So 10th graders have to move schools? That’s pretty cruel to do to kids at that age. I guess there is no regard for the social impact of that move.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember the process to change bell times? A year of talk and pretty minimal change that no one cares about anymore (if ever did)?

That was three superintendents ago. How is that relevant?

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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.

Look at the buses. It’s anywhere from 10-60 minutes depending on the routes

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Anonymous wrote:When will this take effect? If a student is in their last year of MS then will they be moved to a new school for 1 year??

No,current 8th graders will stay at their schools to finish 11th and 12th grade.

So 10th graders have to move schools? That’s pretty cruel to do to kids at that age. I guess there is no regard for the social impact of that move.

It’s terrible. But at least you have some advance notice to move to school of your choice or apply to private school. That’s what we’ve already seen kids doing in our neighborhood, just to avoid the disruption.

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Anonymous wrote:When will this take effect? If a student is in their last year of MS then will they be moved to a new school for 1 year??

No,current 8th graders will stay at their schools to finish 11th and 12th grade.

So 10th graders have to move schools? That’s pretty cruel to do to kids at that age. I guess there is no regard for the social impact of that move.

Agreed, that is awful

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My guess is they will go with something resembling options 1, 2, or 4, and then use the new regional program model to effect some intermixing. They were saying during the program analysis report at the BoE meeting that they didn’t want kids to have to travel far to access programs. So it would make no sense to then make them travel from one end of the county to the other just for regular school.

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Well pretty clearly they are trying to “fix” Kennedy and Wheaton.

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Anonymous wrote:When will this take effect? If a student is in their last year of MS then will they be moved to a new school for 1 year??

No,current 8th graders will stay at their schools to finish 11th and 12th grade.

So 10th graders have to move schools? That’s pretty cruel to do to kids at that age. I guess there is no regard for the social impact of that move.

It’s terrible. But at least you have some advance notice to move to school of your choice or apply to private school. That’s what we’ve already seen kids doing in our neighborhood, just to avoid the disruption.

Which neighborhoods had some good notice of this? The WJ ones? The rest of the schools only got added to the list a year ago or so