Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the same bitter person/people who overstretched for their home and want to make the other parts of the county look bad to justify themselves. We see it all the time on DCUM and frankly it’s getting really old..Sorry you overstretched for a dump in Bethesda.. If you had the means you would just go private so zip it already!

It is all tiresome- this included. No one in DCC is stretched or struggling financially? Everyone in west county is entitled and hateful and everyone in east county is good and virtuous?
Some of comments from west county are gross and i will call that out but there is crap coming from everywhere that needs to stop

Vanishingly few posters claiming to be from west county have called out gross comments about DCC families. Instead you just get offended when DCC families call it out. You don't care about the racism, you just want to protect yourself.

This is also true of the east county posters wrt calling out nastiness.

What nastiness? Feel free to show us how offended you are by people calling out racism.

lol ok

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing/. If I don’t want my child bused 7 miles, then I am accused of racism if that school is marginally less white than my current school (which my kid can walk to). There’s no point engaging.

I don't see anyone calling people racist who just don't like long bus rides. If you take it personally when someone who is being racist is called out, that's a you problem.

Well then you haven’t read the thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing/. If I don’t want my child bused 7 miles, then I am accused of racism if that school is marginally less white than my current school (which my kid can walk to). There’s no point engaging.

I don't see anyone calling people racist who just don't like long bus rides. If you take it personally when someone who is being racist is called out, that's a you problem.

Well then you haven’t read the thread.

If you see it, then feel free to quote it. I have read the thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t want their kids to go to school with yr. kid don’t you get it??

I don’t want my kids going to these ultra competitive schools without diversity as that’s not the real world. I don’t want them going to school where parents care more about the cost of their home than the kids. I don’t want my kids to go to school with kids whose parents stretched for their homes and don’t have similar financial or other values. It’s sad how some assume low income equals bad. Most of the parents are good hardworking people.

Then you live in the wrong area where people have different values than you. Stay in your DCC bubble of what you perceive as success.

WTF?! You need to check yourself. This attitude and snobbery is poison for you and your children.

Not that it should matter but this is coming from a parent in the Whitman zone. Just know that when your child comes to my home and spews this elitist nonsense, they will be corrected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Current parent of WJ cluster, but seems like we will be moved to Woodward.
I personally don't care about demographics, distance (I can drive my kid), ranking at this point, but I know my kid and I care about his mental well being. If we are moved to Woodward, all his friends (based on current proposals) will stay in WJ. I know it will have negative effect on him, so as a loving parent, I am concerned, but pretty much have no choice

Are you saying all options are split articulation? I thought option 1 didn’t?

I am not pp but my kid was miserable at Tilden and made lots of friends from NB at WJ. So even if Tilden is not split, DC will be split from friends when Woodward opens. This is hard for the kids in the transition years all around. Do we have to work hard to build community when the new schools open.

If he is already in HS, is not going to attend Woodward. He will attend WJ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Current parent of WJ cluster, but seems like we will be moved to Woodward.
I personally don't care about demographics, distance (I can drive my kid), ranking at this point, but I know my kid and I care about his mental well being. If we are moved to Woodward, all his friends (based on current proposals) will stay in WJ. I know it will have negative effect on him, so as a loving parent, I am concerned, but pretty much have no choice

Are you saying all options are split articulation? I thought option 1 didn’t?

I am not pp but my kid was miserable at Tilden and made lots of friends from NB at WJ. So even if Tilden is not split, DC will be split from friends when Woodward opens. This is hard for the kids in the transition years all around. Do we have to work hard to build community when the new schools open.

If he is already in HS, is not going to attend Woodward. He will attend WJ.

Oh yes very true. I think the point is change is hard even when it is necessary or for a good reason or likely to be just fine. As humans we worry about change for ourselves and our kids. It is natural for people to imagine how new boundaries would impact their particular kids friend groups. Once the new schools open, it will all work out but the transition is hard.

[Anonymous]

I think it's best to stop bickering about which side has more manchilds. Due to regualr distribution of population, we are always going to have folks who don't know how to behave. Be it in east or west side.

Let's focus on coming up with the good solutions and if we can make it better collectively.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you high achieving parents who want their kids at a 'high achieving' school, I'd like to point out that college admissions is much easier if you're at a school where not every kid is aiming for 1550 SATs.

UMD, in particular, is getting incredibly competitive for kids from W schools. I know lots of kids who assumed it was a safety who ended up not getting admitted. And it's even more extreme when you're aiming at elite private universities.

If you're zoned for Einstein or Woodward instead of WJ, count it as a blessing.

This is my logic and one reason why we never moved. There is a smaller cohart of top students and these school only take in so many students from each school. I think Woodward will have more high achieving students if they are taking 800 or so from WJ. Einstein doesn't attract top students with the DCC as they don't have high level classes.

That’s true is you see the purpose of high school as getting into college. If you see it as actually educating your kid, then having a larger cohort of high-achieving kids is critical.

+1 purpose is not to just get into the best college.

Also, if einstein does not have high level of math course then situation looks poor for Woodward with some boudary options having more FARMS than Einstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Current parent of WJ cluster, but seems like we will be moved to Woodward.
I personally don't care about demographics, distance (I can drive my kid), ranking at this point, but I know my kid and I care about his mental well being. If we are moved to Woodward, all his friends (based on current proposals) will stay in WJ. I know it will have negative effect on him, so as a loving parent, I am concerned, but pretty much have no choice

Are you saying all options are split articulation? I thought option 1 didn’t?

I am not pp but my kid was miserable at Tilden and made lots of friends from NB at WJ. So even if Tilden is not split, DC will be split from friends when Woodward opens. This is hard for the kids in the transition years all around. Do we have to work hard to build community when the new schools open.

If he is already in HS, is not going to attend Woodward. He will attend WJ.

Oh yes very true. I think the point is change is hard even when it is necessary or for a good reason or likely to be just fine. As humans we worry about change for ourselves and our kids. It is natural for people to imagine how new boundaries would impact their particular kids friend groups. Once the new schools open, it will all work out but the transition is hard.

Agree. People don't like change, but if an entire neighborhood is moving with you then I don't think changes are going to be that big for kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's best to stop bickering about which side has more manchilds. Due to regualr distribution of population, we are always going to have folks who don't know how to behave. Be it in east or west side.

Let's focus on coming up with the good solutions and if we can make it better collectively.

When the most well resourced people have a financial incentive to maintain segregation, we are not going to find solutions that benefit everyone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing/. If I don’t want my child bused 7 miles, then I am accused of racism if that school is marginally less white than my current school (which my kid can walk to). There’s no point engaging.

I don't see anyone calling people racist who just don't like long bus rides. If you take it personally when someone who is being racist is called out, that's a you problem.

Well then you haven’t read the thread.

If you see it, then feel free to quote it. I have read the thread.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you high achieving parents who want their kids at a 'high achieving' school, I'd like to point out that college admissions is much easier if you're at a school where not every kid is aiming for 1550 SATs.

UMD, in particular, is getting incredibly competitive for kids from W schools. I know lots of kids who assumed it was a safety who ended up not getting admitted. And it's even more extreme when you're aiming at elite private universities.

If you're zoned for Einstein or Woodward instead of WJ, count it as a blessing.

This is my logic and one reason why we never moved. There is a smaller cohart of top students and these school only take in so many students from each school. I think Woodward will have more high achieving students if they are taking 800 or so from WJ. Einstein doesn't attract top students with the DCC as they don't have high level classes.

That’s true is you see the purpose of high school as getting into college. If you see it as actually educating your kid, then having a larger cohort of high-achieving kids is critical.

+1 purpose is not to just get into the best college.

Also, if einstein does not have high level of math course then situation looks poor for Woodward with some boudary options having more FARMS than Einstein.

Einstein is an IB school, so they have IB courses and fewer APs. There's no indication yet whether Woodward will be IB.

[Anonymous]

This thread was actually useful for a few pages, can we get back to that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's best to stop bickering about which side has more manchilds. Due to regualr distribution of population, we are always going to have folks who don't know how to behave. Be it in east or west side.

Let's focus on coming up with the good solutions and if we can make it better collectively.

When the most well resourced people have a financial incentive to maintain segregation, we are not going to find solutions that benefit everyone

How is implying that everyone in west county is a segregationist helpful?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's best to stop bickering about which side has more manchilds. Due to regualr distribution of population, we are always going to have folks who don't know how to behave. Be it in east or west side.

Let's focus on coming up with the good solutions and if we can make it better collectively.

When the most well resourced people have a financial incentive to maintain segregation, we are not going to find solutions that benefit everyone

How is implying that everyone in west county is a segregationist helpful?

Lol in what way does the above imply that? It is simply a true statement that people zoned for West county schools benefit financially from segregation. That is not a dig at you. Many people, including me, have benefited from racism. That's the entire point of racism.