Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

[Anonymous]

This is a horrible thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Entitlement of Tilden families on this thread is gross.

Deal with it. We worked hard and prioritized education to succeed. DCC families are ok with mediocre schools.

You didn't prioritize education you just prioritize having an expensive house

I hate to let you know but better schools increase property values. So people that want better schools have higher priced homes.

No, better is the quality of teacher your kid gets assigned. All parents want their kids to get a good education. The difference is the we have the same incomes but have more money for tutoring and more important college.

So what are you arguing: that W families foolishly spend money on houses and stuff, while DCC families spend money on tutoring?

I just looked at SAT scores and W schools are on a different planet compared to DCC schools (minus the Blair magnet). Some DCC schools are so bad that it is not even funny. How do you explain it, given so much tutoring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Entitlement of Tilden families on this thread is gross.

Deal with it. We worked hard and prioritized education to succeed. DCC families are ok with mediocre schools.

You didn't prioritize education you just prioritize having an expensive house

I hate to let you know but better schools increase property values. So people that want better schools have higher priced homes.

No, better is the quality of teacher your kid gets assigned. All parents want their kids to get a good education. The difference is the we have the same incomes but have more money for tutoring and more important college.

So what are you arguing: that W families foolishly spend money on houses and stuff, while DCC families spend money on tutoring?

I just looked at SAT scores and W schools are on a different planet compared to DCC schools (minus the Blair magnet). Some DCC schools are so bad that it is not even funny. How do you explain it, given so much tutoring.

Our kids don’t have the same math classes as yours do and we have far more special needs and esol kids. You know the kids you don’t want in your schools. No, we have money to pay for college while you all are screaming donut hole and demanding aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a horrible thread.

It reminds me why we choose not to put our kids in a school with hateful people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Entitlement of Tilden families on this thread is gross.

Deal with it. We worked hard and prioritized education to succeed. DCC families are ok with mediocre schools.

You didn't prioritize education you just prioritize having an expensive house

I hate to let you know but better schools increase property values. So people that want better schools have higher priced homes.

No, better is the quality of teacher your kid gets assigned. All parents want their kids to get a good education. The difference is the we have the same incomes but have more money for tutoring and more important college.

So what are you arguing: that W families foolishly spend money on houses and stuff, while DCC families spend money on tutoring?

I just looked at SAT scores and W schools are on a different planet compared to DCC schools (minus the Blair magnet). Some DCC schools are so bad that it is not even funny. How do you explain it, given so much tutoring.

Our kids don’t have the same math classes as yours do and we have far more special needs and esol kids. You know the kids you don’t want in your schools. No, we have money to pay for college while you all are screaming donut hole and demanding aid.

I'm a happy DCC parent with one child already graduated and others on the way. But this "we value education so we live in an affordable neighborhood" argument this just laughable. You are making us look bad. Please stop.

The truth is that I live in an affordable neighborhood because I made specific choices. Yes, I chose a diverse neighborhood for my mixed race kids, so they could see people who looked like them every day, in a variety of roles. But I also made choices about what I did with my education (typical do-gooder stuff), by having my kids youngish for DC so they'd grow up with their cousins, and a hundred other things that long-term constrained my financial mobility.

No regrets about any of it, but pretending that DCC families are superior because our homes cost $700K instead of $1.5m is not realistic. It's a bunch of things, neither better nor worse than the other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a horrible thread.

It reminds me why we choose not to put our kids in a school with hateful people.

What utopia is that? Are you high?

[Anonymous]

Every time the BOE hears “property values” and “parents who value education,” the likelihood of something like Option 3 goes up. Keep on whistling those dog whistles.

[Anonymous]

This stuff just tears communities apart. It’s so sad. It’s hard enough without the politics of trying to socially engineer demographics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Entitlement of Tilden families on this thread is gross.

Deal with it. We worked hard and prioritized education to succeed. DCC families are ok with mediocre schools.

You didn't prioritize education you just prioritize having an expensive house

I hate to let you know but better schools increase property values. So people that want better schools have higher priced homes.

No, better is the quality of teacher your kid gets assigned. All parents want their kids to get a good education. The difference is the we have the same incomes but have more money for tutoring and more important college.

So what are you arguing: that W families foolishly spend money on houses and stuff, while DCC families spend money on tutoring?

I just looked at SAT scores and W schools are on a different planet compared to DCC schools (minus the Blair magnet). Some DCC schools are so bad that it is not even funny. How do you explain it, given so much tutoring.

Our kids don’t have the same math classes as yours do and we have far more special needs and esol kids. You know the kids you don’t want in your schools. No, we have money to pay for college while you all are screaming donut hole and demanding aid.

I'm a happy DCC parent with one child already graduated and others on the way. But this "we value education so we live in an affordable neighborhood" argument this just laughable. You are making us look bad. Please stop.

The truth is that I live in an affordable neighborhood because I made specific choices. Yes, I chose a diverse neighborhood for my mixed race kids, so they could see people who looked like them every day, in a variety of roles. But I also made choices about what I did with my education (typical do-gooder stuff), by having my kids youngish for DC so they'd grow up with their cousins, and a hundred other things that long-term constrained my financial mobility.

No regrets about any of it, but pretending that DCC families are superior because our homes cost $700K instead of $1.5m is not realistic. It's a bunch of things, neither better nor worse than the other.

There are a lot of Hines now going for over a million. No one is saying it’s superior, we are saying it’s equal but there are other advantages like college admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Entitlement of Tilden families on this thread is gross.

Deal with it. We worked hard and prioritized education to succeed. DCC families are ok with mediocre schools.

You didn't prioritize education you just prioritize having an expensive house

I hate to let you know but better schools increase property values. So people that want better schools have higher priced homes.

No, better is the quality of teacher your kid gets assigned. All parents want their kids to get a good education. The difference is the we have the same incomes but have more money for tutoring and more important college.

So what are you arguing: that W families foolishly spend money on houses and stuff, while DCC families spend money on tutoring?

I just looked at SAT scores and W schools are on a different planet compared to DCC schools (minus the Blair magnet). Some DCC schools are so bad that it is not even funny. How do you explain it, given so much tutoring.

Our kids don’t have the same math classes as yours do and we have far more special needs and esol kids. You know the kids you don’t want in your schools. No, we have money to pay for college while you all are screaming donut hole and demanding aid.

I'm a happy DCC parent with one child already graduated and others on the way. But this "we value education so we live in an affordable neighborhood" argument this just laughable. You are making us look bad. Please stop.

The truth is that I live in an affordable neighborhood because I made specific choices. Yes, I chose a diverse neighborhood for my mixed race kids, so they could see people who looked like them every day, in a variety of roles. But I also made choices about what I did with my education (typical do-gooder stuff), by having my kids youngish for DC so they'd grow up with their cousins, and a hundred other things that long-term constrained my financial mobility.

No regrets about any of it, but pretending that DCC families are superior because our homes cost $700K instead of $1.5m is not realistic. It's a bunch of things, neither better nor worse than the other.

There are a lot of Hines now going for over a million. No one is saying it’s superior, we are saying it’s equal but there are other advantages like college admissions.

Homes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I regret buying 2 years ago in Tilden area. I knew that boudary will change but I expected half of WJ will move to Woodward and then both schools will take one elemenatry each from outside.

With all 4 options, Woodward is drastically worse than WJ.

Option 1 essentially does this. The problem is thst Woodward gets Viers Mill ES and WJ gets Rosemary Hills and Chevy Chase ES, so not equivalent demographically. Plus, Tilden is more diverse than North Bethesda MS to begin with because it encompasses more apartments in Rollins and off Parklawn.

Given how close WJ and Woodward are, MCPS should come up with options which keeps WJ and Woodward FARMS in the same range.

They are better off keeping kids local and schools high farms as they get more funding and smaller class sizes. The families who go to these schools don’t mind and we are trying to avoid the racist families and happy to have our kids at these schools.

This is a thread about MS and HS, in which the differences you are describing (smaller classes) is only minimally true, or not true at all. Do you have only younger kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Every time the BOE hears “property values” and “parents who value education,” the likelihood of something like Option 3 goes up. Keep on whistling those dog whistles.

Similarly, the socialist themes are equally offensive and make the likelihood of something like option 1 go up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time the BOE hears “property values” and “parents who value education,” the likelihood of something like Option 3 goes up. Keep on whistling those dog whistles.

Similarly, the socialist themes are equally offensive and make the likelihood of something like option 1 go up.

Like the eminent domain of white flint post etc ….

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Anonymous wrote:Once more for those in the back:

It's the school board's job to care about schools, not your property values. Bringing up property values at all is a dog whistle, and the minute you bring it up, no one is listening to you or cares what you have to say. So please, make your case that split articulation is bad; make your case that kids shouldn't have long bus rides, or bus rides that go past another school they could be at sooner, etc. But let go of property values - it's irrelevant to redistricting

well this is all patently false.

What exactly do you think is false? Because this is spot on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I regret buying 2 years ago in Tilden area. I knew that boudary will change but I expected half of WJ will move to Woodward and then both schools will take one elemenatry each from outside.

With all 4 options, Woodward is drastically worse than WJ.

Option 1 essentially does this. The problem is thst Woodward gets Viers Mill ES and WJ gets Rosemary Hills and Chevy Chase ES, so not equivalent demographically. Plus, Tilden is more diverse than North Bethesda MS to begin with because it encompasses more apartments in Rollins and off Parklawn.

Given how close WJ and Woodward are, MCPS should come up with options which keeps WJ and Woodward FARMS in the same range.

They are better off keeping kids local and schools high farms as they get more funding and smaller class sizes. The families who go to these schools don’t mind and we are trying to avoid the racist families and happy to have our kids at these schools.

This is a thread about MS and HS, in which the differences you are describing (smaller classes) is only minimally true, or not true at all. Do you have only younger kids?

There are some smaller classes but mainly ap.