When are Woodward boundaries going to be decided?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s a 50 page thread on this in Real Estate

Which tells you that for many people, boundary studies aren't about education, they're about property values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a 50 page thread on this in Real Estate

Which tells you that for many people, boundary studies aren't about education, they're about property values.

What else is there to care about, now that curriculum is all the same everywhere? That and basic safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not a boundary study, meaning redistricting. It's a boundary assessment study. Someone coming in with fresh eyes, and no predetermined outcomes they will look at that and see if they see an obvious change that will help with overcrowding and diversity. Chances are few changes around the edges, nothing substantive.

There are children already in WF and Pike and Rose, and soon to be Twinbrook - thank you Rockville City Council - that with current boundaries already go to Farmland Elementary in the WJ Cluster, which is currently overcrowded and getting more portables next year.

There will be an actual boundary study, 18 months before Woodward opens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s a 50 page thread on this in Real Estate

It covered all likely scenarios in detail.

[Anonymous]

OP here.


Thank you everyone. It's not just the property values, but there's a program that I really want for my daughter at WJ, the like of which doesn't seem to be offered at other high schools! Of course, by the time she goes there, it might not even be implemented anymore, if the coordinators, who are teachers there, retire...

Thank you again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
OP here.


Thank you everyone. It's not just the property values, but there's a program that I really want for my daughter at WJ, the like of which doesn't seem to be offered at other high schools! Of course, by the time she goes there, it might not even be implemented anymore, if the coordinators, who are teachers there, retire...

Thank you again.

Your first indicator will be the NW/SV/CHS redistricting. If the BOE picks option 4 (3 discontinuous islands, bus rides up to 45 minutes without traffic haha, does not resolve overcrowding issues in target school, only merit is demographics), you don't want to buy in WJ unless you are willing to rent it out and rent down street in some portion of the neighborhood districted for WJ once they redo the boundaries.

If the BOE picks any other option, just aim for the southern / western edge of the WJ district, and you will probably be just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
OP here.


Thank you everyone. It's not just the property values, but there's a program that I really want for my daughter at WJ, the like of which doesn't seem to be offered at other high schools! Of course, by the time she goes there, it might not even be implemented anymore, if the coordinators, who are teachers there, retire...

Thank you again.

Right. Please don't make expensive real estate decisions now, based on school conditions that might or might not even be there - or your child might not even want -- once your child gets to high school.

[Anonymous]

Seriously people, the demographic for Woodward is going to look very similar to WJ, and it will be a nice building that's not overcrowded that may have a magnet arts program. All of the communities it's likely pulling from - Luxmanor, Garrett Park, Kensington, Farmland, are good communities with strong families and provide excellent support for their current schools - what makes you think that Woodward would be any different? I understand change is hard, but jeeez, get over it.

[Anonymous]

Well, there is also a possibility of a neighborhood currently zoned for WJ being reassigned to Einstein. The flow can go both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, there is also a possibility of a neighborhood currently zoned for WJ being reassigned to Einstein. The flow can go both ways.

Why would it go that way when Einstein is overcrowded now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, there is also a possibility of a neighborhood currently zoned for WJ being reassigned to Einstein. The flow can go both ways.

Why would it go that way when Einstein is overcrowded now?

Right. The purpose of Woodward is to relieve overcrowding at WJ and DCC schools.

[Anonymous]

Ummmm for demographics. Cut off the most FARM-y areas of Einstein to make free space in the school, send some to WJ and some to Woodward, insert I dunno Kensington Parkwood into Einstein. Demographics at Einstein solved.

THAT is the world Option 4 opens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, there is also a possibility of a neighborhood currently zoned for WJ being reassigned to Einstein. The flow can go both ways.

Why would it go that way when Einstein is overcrowded now?

Right. The purpose of Woodward is to relieve overcrowding at WJ and DCC schools.

and by DCC they mean Einstein since it's the only school near Woodward that doesn't have a planned expansion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, there is also a possibility of a neighborhood currently zoned for WJ being reassigned to Einstein. The flow can go both ways.

Why would it go that way when Einstein is overcrowded now?

Right. The purpose of Woodward is to relieve overcrowding at WJ and DCC schools.

and by DCC they mean Einstein since it's the only school near Woodward that doesn't have a planned expansion

By the time you are willing to bus people 45 min without traffic. just expand the scope of the study like they did with NW this year, and then transport part of NBMS ro the newly finished Kennedy expansion.

This can get extreme in no time.

Oppose Option 4 in NW/SV/CHS rezoning. Fill out the survey. Wrute letters. Make your voice heard. You are a stakeholder. This can and will affect you in 2-3 years.

[Anonymous]

What survey is this?