Dcc transfer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why not go to Northwood? This is the obvious solution.

As for Blair, that’s not going to happen.

I’ve heard that Mcps is planning to put Northwood under construction to renovate the school , many kids are also still going to classes in mobile classrooms . I do not want her in that learning environment .

Yes, Northwood students will all be bussed over to Woodward on Old Georgetown Rd for two years, 2024 to 2026.

In Rockville ? That’s even worse than wheaton !!!! Mcps is so inconsiderate.

It's going to be a beautiful new school and they are going to be the first to occupy it. I would be so happy for my child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why not go to Northwood? This is the obvious solution.

As for Blair, that’s not going to happen.

I’ve heard that Mcps is planning to put Northwood under construction to renovate the school , many kids are also still going to classes in mobile classrooms . I do not want her in that learning environment .

Next year is the last year at the old school. After that it’s 2 years at a holding school (Woodward) while the new one is built.

But Blair has trailers as well.

[Anonymous]

Woodward, the holding school, is a brand new school. then they will move into another brand new school which will be the new Northwood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is new to mcps , she was private schooled from k-8 . Our home school is Northwood HS . Last year we did not know anything about the choice process for the dcc , and when we ranked the schools we had disregarded transportation issues because we were under the impression that mcps would provide an adequate transportation to and from school . The ranking went : Blair , Einstein , Wheaton , Kennedy , Northwood . The results come around , and my daughter receives her third choice (Wheaton) . She is a freshman now at Wheaton . When we looked at the bus routes the only available stop was 20 minutes away by walk and she has to walk along and across a very busy road . In addition to this , for her to participate in extracurriculars , she takes 3 buses home after school . I am unable to drive her to and from school every day I have a work schedule . We filed an appeal last week stating this and requesting to be transferred to Blair , her first choice , and I’m worried they will reject it and she has to go to Wheaton another year. Do you think it’s likely they will accept our appeal ?

Blair is like 500+ seats over capacity now. It seems unlikely they'll put any new students there. You may want to select a less crowded school.

I keep hearing about how Blair is so overcrowded , if that is the case why do they accept so many freshmen from all over the county to come to their school ? I’ not sure what constitutes as overcrowded when the school’s teacher to student ratio is only 17:1 Only 3 students higher than the county average

Overcrowdedness is about the building's capacity being lower than its enrollment. Blair has a ton of portable classrooms too because of this.

Where can I find information about Blair’s overcapacity

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

Look at the bottom right chart on the second page. Look at capacity. Look at enrollment. It's 300-400 overcapacity this year. They had to take over the back parking lot with trailers and they didn't do that in previous years. There were already a lot of trailers near the main field.
Based on what we heard there are more than more 200 freshman in the fall than seniors who graduated. Unless there is attrition from other classes that could mean 500-600 overcapacity. How does a school even handle that many additional kids? That's a whole school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is new to mcps , she was private schooled from k-8 . Our home school is Northwood HS . Last year we did not know anything about the choice process for the dcc , and when we ranked the schools we had disregarded transportation issues because we were under the impression that mcps would provide an adequate transportation to and from school . The ranking went : Blair , Einstein , Wheaton , Kennedy , Northwood . The results come around , and my daughter receives her third choice (Wheaton) . She is a freshman now at Wheaton . When we looked at the bus routes the only available stop was 20 minutes away by walk and she has to walk along and across a very busy road . In addition to this , for her to participate in extracurriculars , she takes 3 buses home after school . I am unable to drive her to and from school every day I have a work schedule . We filed an appeal last week stating this and requesting to be transferred to Blair , her first choice , and I’m worried they will reject it and she has to go to Wheaton another year. Do you think it’s likely they will accept our appeal ?

Blair is like 500+ seats over capacity now. It seems unlikely they'll put any new students there. You may want to select a less crowded school.

I keep hearing about how Blair is so overcrowded , if that is the case why do they accept so many freshmen from all over the county to come to their school ? I’ not sure what constitutes as overcrowded when the school’s teacher to student ratio is only 17:1 Only 3 students higher than the county average

Overcrowdedness is about the building's capacity being lower than its enrollment. Blair has a ton of portable classrooms too because of this.

Where can I find information about Blair’s overcapacity

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

Look at the bottom right chart on the second page. Look at capacity. Look at enrollment. It's 300-400 overcapacity this year. They had to take over the back parking lot with trailers and they didn't do that in previous years. There were already a lot of trailers near the main field.
Based on what we heard there are more than more 200 freshman in the fall than seniors who graduated. Unless there is attrition from other classes that could mean 500-600 overcapacity. How does a school even handle that many additional kids? That's a whole school.

What I find interesting is the fact that Wheaton is more overcrowded than blair ( https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4DCC.pdf on page 4) . If they will put my daughter in her third choice school when it's more overcrowded than her first choice what's stopping them from letting her transfer into a less crowded school ??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is new to mcps , she was private schooled from k-8 . Our home school is Northwood HS . Last year we did not know anything about the choice process for the dcc , and when we ranked the schools we had disregarded transportation issues because we were under the impression that mcps would provide an adequate transportation to and from school . The ranking went : Blair , Einstein , Wheaton , Kennedy , Northwood . The results come around , and my daughter receives her third choice (Wheaton) . She is a freshman now at Wheaton . When we looked at the bus routes the only available stop was 20 minutes away by walk and she has to walk along and across a very busy road . In addition to this , for her to participate in extracurriculars , she takes 3 buses home after school . I am unable to drive her to and from school every day I have a work schedule . We filed an appeal last week stating this and requesting to be transferred to Blair , her first choice , and I’m worried they will reject it and she has to go to Wheaton another year. Do you think it’s likely they will accept our appeal ?

Blair is like 500+ seats over capacity now. It seems unlikely they'll put any new students there. You may want to select a less crowded school.

I keep hearing about how Blair is so overcrowded , if that is the case why do they accept so many freshmen from all over the county to come to their school ? I’ not sure what constitutes as overcrowded when the school’s teacher to student ratio is only 17:1 Only 3 students higher than the county average

Overcrowdedness is about the building's capacity being lower than its enrollment. Blair has a ton of portable classrooms too because of this.

Where can I find information about Blair’s overcapacity

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

Look at the bottom right chart on the second page. Look at capacity. Look at enrollment. It's 300-400 overcapacity this year. They had to take over the back parking lot with trailers and they didn't do that in previous years. There were already a lot of trailers near the main field.
Based on what we heard there are more than more 200 freshman in the fall than seniors who graduated. Unless there is attrition from other classes that could mean 500-600 overcapacity. How does a school even handle that many additional kids? That's a whole school.

What I find interesting is the fact that Wheaton is more overcrowded than blair ( https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4DCC.pdf on page 4) . If they will put my daughter in her third choice school when it's more overcrowded than her first choice what's stopping them from letting her transfer into a less crowded school ??

Why can't she go to her home school if transportation is the issue? This doesn't make sense. How would getting to Blair be easier than Wheaton? Neither is going to offer easy transportation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

The school that is the worst in the dcc AND is relocating all the way to Rockville next year .. I'm sorry that I want what's best for my child , and what's best is not sending her to a school that has fights and bad influences there every day !!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is new to mcps , she was private schooled from k-8 . Our home school is Northwood HS . Last year we did not know anything about the choice process for the dcc , and when we ranked the schools we had disregarded transportation issues because we were under the impression that mcps would provide an adequate transportation to and from school . The ranking went : Blair , Einstein , Wheaton , Kennedy , Northwood . The results come around , and my daughter receives her third choice (Wheaton) . She is a freshman now at Wheaton . When we looked at the bus routes the only available stop was 20 minutes away by walk and she has to walk along and across a very busy road . In addition to this , for her to participate in extracurriculars , she takes 3 buses home after school . I am unable to drive her to and from school every day I have a work schedule . We filed an appeal last week stating this and requesting to be transferred to Blair , her first choice , and I’m worried they will reject it and she has to go to Wheaton another year. Do you think it’s likely they will accept our appeal ?

Blair is like 500+ seats over capacity now. It seems unlikely they'll put any new students there. You may want to select a less crowded school.

I keep hearing about how Blair is so overcrowded , if that is the case why do they accept so many freshmen from all over the county to come to their school ? I’ not sure what constitutes as overcrowded when the school’s teacher to student ratio is only 17:1 Only 3 students higher than the county average

Overcrowdedness is about the building's capacity being lower than its enrollment. Blair has a ton of portable classrooms too because of this.

Where can I find information about Blair’s overcapacity

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

Look at the bottom right chart on the second page. Look at capacity. Look at enrollment. It's 300-400 overcapacity this year. They had to take over the back parking lot with trailers and they didn't do that in previous years. There were already a lot of trailers near the main field.
Based on what we heard there are more than more 200 freshman in the fall than seniors who graduated. Unless there is attrition from other classes that could mean 500-600 overcapacity. How does a school even handle that many additional kids? That's a whole school.

What I find interesting is the fact that Wheaton is more overcrowded than blair ( https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4DCC.pdf on page 4) . If they will put my daughter in her third choice school when it's more overcrowded than her first choice what's stopping them from letting her transfer into a less crowded school ??

Why can't she go to her home school if transportation is the issue? This doesn't make sense. How would getting to Blair be easier than Wheaton? Neither is going to offer easy transportation.

Blair is closer to us . Blair is 1 metro bus away but wheaton is 3 .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

The school that is the worst in the dcc AND is relocating all the way to Rockville next year .. I'm sorry that I want what's best for my child , and what's best is not sending her to a school that has fights and bad influences there every day !!

So… this is not about the transportation issue

[Anonymous]

Where are you getting your info about fights every day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

The school that is the worst in the dcc AND is relocating all the way to Rockville next year .. I'm sorry that I want what's best for my child , and what's best is not sending her to a school that has fights and bad influences there every day !!

So… this is not about the transportation issue

Are you saying I'm not allowed to have 2 different reasons for wanting her to transfer ? Obviously Mcps would only consider the transportation issue because they're afraid to actually discipline student's at that school and put in an effort to make it better .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you getting your info about fights every day?

I am an eyewitness and my daughter knows kids who have seen these fights happen as well

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

The school that is the worst in the dcc AND is relocating all the way to Rockville next year .. I'm sorry that I want what's best for my child , and what's best is not sending her to a school that has fights and bad influences there every day !!

It's an ok school. And, you may not want it but those are your choices. Wheaton and Blair have fights and bad influences too. You should move to a W school district if you want "best."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you getting your info about fights every day?

I am an eyewitness and my daughter knows kids who have seen these fights happen as well

You think this will not happen at Blair too?