Woodward HS boundary study - BCC, Blair, Einstein, WJ, Kennedy, Northwood, Wheaton, Whitman impacts

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Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Everything is movable. If it means it's equitable bus ride for entire county, then it should move.

It's easy to determine.

Average bus ride time per students to Magnet if it's in Blair vs if it's in Woodward. That data should clearly show which is better for average students who have attended magnet in the last 2 years. For this calculation, 25 reserved seats shouldn't be counted because they are not county wide, that will anyway go to wherever magnet is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Everything is movable. If it means it's equitable bus ride for entire county, then it should move.

It's easy to determine.

Average bus ride time per students to Magnet if it's in Blair vs if it's in Woodward. That data should clearly show which is better for average students who have attended magnet in the last 2 years. For this calculation, 25 reserved seats shouldn't be counted because they are not county wide, that will anyway go to wherever magnet is.

With all Silver Spring oriented MCPS, you must be kidding talking about possibility of Blair not given huge advantage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Everything is movable. If it means it's equitable bus ride for entire county, then it should move.

It's easy to determine.

Average bus ride time per students to Magnet if it's in Blair vs if it's in Woodward. That data should clearly show which is better for average students who have attended magnet in the last 2 years. For this calculation, 25 reserved seats shouldn't be counted because they are not county wide, that will anyway go to wherever magnet is.

Blair mostly serves students near it so it makes the most sense to keep it there.

It would be better to add a vocational magnet to Woodward or Wootton to help diversify that part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

The monied interests in Gaithersburg (Harriet Tubman ES), Montgomery Village (South Lake ES), and Wheaton (Northwood HS)?

And yes, placing the Poolesville Magnet in Gaithersburg HS would be an example of making it more accessible.

The population in Poolesville is too small to support a high school. That’s why the upcountry magnet is there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

The monied interests in Gaithersburg (Harriet Tubman ES), Montgomery Village (South Lake ES), and Wheaton (Northwood HS)?

And yes, placing the Poolesville Magnet in Gaithersburg HS would be an example of making it more accessible.

The population in Poolesville is too small to support a high school. That’s why the upcountry magnet is there.

Maybe it would be better to just bus that smaller population elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

The monied interests in Gaithersburg (Harriet Tubman ES), Montgomery Village (South Lake ES), and Wheaton (Northwood HS)?

And yes, placing the Poolesville Magnet in Gaithersburg HS would be an example of making it more accessible.

Placing the "Poolesville" magnet in Gaithersburg HS would also be an example of increasing enrollment at Gaithersburg HS to way over capacity.

The upcounty SMACS and Humanities magnets are in Poolesville because the Global Ecology magnet was already there, and because the number of students in the high school in Poolesville was very small and Jerry Weast didn't like very small schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/02/16/poolesville-magnet-a-study-in-stamina-span-classbankheadupcounty-parents-eager-for-programspan/baa9217a-98ad-4500-9c65-008bf4e2c01a/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2001/01/21/poolesville-sizes-em-up/d97c7e7d-a7af-4e78-984d-5a19ec98dd85/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair is overcrowded, correct? So why are you busing magnet kids to Silver Spring? Move the magnet to Woodward, then you have more room at Blair.

Woodward is not even going to have enough seats for the local kids being reassigned from WJ, Wheaton and Einstein. There will be no room for a magnet.

Shifting magnet out of Blair will open up seats for Wheaton and Einstein.

It wouldn't be enough seats. And they're just not going to move the Blair magnet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Everything is movable. If it means it's equitable bus ride for entire county, then it should move.

It's easy to determine.

Average bus ride time per students to Magnet if it's in Blair vs if it's in Woodward. That data should clearly show which is better for average students who have attended magnet in the last 2 years. For this calculation, 25 reserved seats shouldn't be counted because they are not county wide, that will anyway go to wherever magnet is.

Blair mostly serves students near it so it makes the most sense to keep it there.

It would be better to add a vocational magnet to Woodward or Wootton to help diversify that part of the county.

+1 Land doesn't vote, and land doesn't attend school. It makes sense to have the magnets near the population centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Wootton is not fine. Ask any student or staff member there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Wootton is not fine. Ask any student or staff member there.

What’s the issue with wootton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

This

[Anonymous]

For all those waiting for a new/renovated building: there are over 200 schools in MCPS. If they did 5 each and every year, it'd still be more than 40 years before they got back to first school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Everything is movable. If it means it's equitable bus ride for entire county, then it should move.

It's easy to determine.

Average bus ride time per students to Magnet if it's in Blair vs if it's in Woodward. That data should clearly show which is better for average students who have attended magnet in the last 2 years. For this calculation, 25 reserved seats shouldn't be counted because they are not county wide, that will anyway go to wherever magnet is.

Blair mostly serves students near it so it makes the most sense to keep it there.

It would be better to add a vocational magnet to Woodward or Wootton to help diversify that part of the county.

Agree, Blair magnet is situated ideally now, but West county really needs a vocational magnet to help diversify the segregated school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange take about the system catering to Silver Spring. If that were the case, you'd see resources going there instead of, say, to the brand new elementary in Potomac and the upcoming brand new high school in Bethesda, the subject of this thread.

Instead, we see no high school options pursued inside the beltway where one is desperately needed, SSIMS/SCES treated like a redheaded stepchild, HVES given the three-card Monty and Eastern downright ignored. TPMS, Pinecrest and Woodlin, you say? Well, shucks, it helps to have some wealthy folks in certain catchments...

Hey, waaaaaiit a minute...could it be that politicians pay lip service to the bulk of the electorate to garner the popular vote but bend to monied interests when it comes to brass tacks? Nah, couldn't be!

Then you don't have a problem moving the Blair magnet closer to mid-county where all students can access them? Same distance from every corner of MC?

And schools like Wootton crumbing? Schools with asbestos? You don't care about them?

Please. Save it for someone who's a bit more naive.

Wootton is fine and the Blair magnet is not movable.

Everything is movable. If it means it's equitable bus ride for entire county, then it should move.

It's easy to determine.

Average bus ride time per students to Magnet if it's in Blair vs if it's in Woodward. That data should clearly show which is better for average students who have attended magnet in the last 2 years. For this calculation, 25 reserved seats shouldn't be counted because they are not county wide, that will anyway go to wherever magnet is.

Blair mostly serves students near it so it makes the most sense to keep it there.

It would be better to add a vocational magnet to Woodward or Wootton to help diversify that part of the county.

Agree, Blair magnet is situated ideally now, but West county really needs a vocational magnet to help diversify the segregated school.

Woodward should have a vocational magnet? Have you been by the Woodward site lately? The building project is well underway. It has to be ready for Northwood in 14 months. Whatever you might think should happen, it's not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Apologies for what is probably a dumb question — if a student starts high school in 2025 and the rezoning takes effect in 2026, would they need to transfer if their address is affected? Or does the rezoning apply only to new students?