Option B Alternate - Adding extra ES to WJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It's kinda sad because they think they did "reach out" to work with the other schools. They sent chaser messages to anyone with a connection and pretended to just want to chat and get perspective, when it was really just to say "we're working together." And when they didn't get the response they wanted or expected--that the two ESes in question would leap at the chance to attend WJ--they dropped that tactic and quit engaging in the discussion with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It's kinda sad because they think they did "reach out" to work with the other schools. They sent chaser messages to anyone with a connection and pretended to just want to chat and get perspective, when it was really just to say "we're working together." And when they didn't get the response they wanted or expected--that the two ESes in question would leap at the chance to attend WJ--they dropped that tactic and quit engaging in the discussion with them.

That is true. I am from one of the affected ESes. When they thought I would be there prop, they replied. When I learned more and told them I disagreed with their position and motivation and actually like what the Superintended proposed, they ghosted me. And I was engaging in good faith. They don't care about the actual people it affects. They care about the house value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It's kinda sad because they think they did "reach out" to work with the other schools. They sent chaser messages to anyone with a connection and pretended to just want to chat and get perspective, when it was really just to say "we're working together." And when they didn't get the response they wanted or expected--that the two ESes in question would leap at the chance to attend WJ--they dropped that tactic and quit engaging in the discussion with them.

+1 swap our house value for yours was never gonna work. idiots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It is not the petitioners’ job to conduct their own study. It is their right to present a concern or feedback on the options. Any other community can provide their own feedback or write their own petitions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Equally disturbing is the deflection by WJ parents who are in the mix for potentially going to Woodward (look how bad the Farmland and Luxmanor parents are!) When you future WJ (but maybe future Woodward) parents are doing THE EXACT SAME THING!!! It’s not a good look for you either.

I don’t see any public facing advocacy from that group. the attempted coup as someone put it is coming from Farmland:Luxmanor Tilden pta rep

Yes, there is no WJ advocacy group. It is mostly a one-man-show creating 50% of posts on this thread.

I hope that is true because the folks I know at WJ wouldn’t disparage the Farmland and Luxmanor families in this way.

Correct, and it would be ludicrous if they did. Do people really think they are fundamentally that different than their neighbors down the road?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It is not the petitioners’ job to conduct their own study. It is their right to present a concern or feedback on the options. Any other community can provide their own feedback or write their own petitions.

They don't have to conduct their own study. It just looks bad to propose moving someone else out of their high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Equally disturbing is the deflection by WJ parents who are in the mix for potentially going to Woodward (look how bad the Farmland and Luxmanor parents are!) When you future WJ (but maybe future Woodward) parents are doing THE EXACT SAME THING!!! It’s not a good look for you either.

I don’t see any public facing advocacy from that group. the attempted coup as someone put it is coming from Farmland:Luxmanor Tilden pta rep

Yes, there is no WJ advocacy group. It is mostly a one-man-show creating 50% of posts on this thread.

I hope that is true because the folks I know at WJ wouldn’t disparage the Farmland and Luxmanor families in this way.

Correct, and it would be ludicrous if they did. Do people really think they are fundamentally that different than their neighbors down the road?

The neighbors down the road can’t even speak english yet you want them in your schools?!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It is not the petitioners’ job to conduct their own study. It is their right to present a concern or feedback on the options. Any other community can provide their own feedback or write their own petitions.

They don't have to conduct their own study. It just looks bad to propose moving someone else out of their high school.

Which is not what the proposal is about. VM and WW are being moved out of their current school one way or the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It is not the petitioners’ job to conduct their own study. It is their right to present a concern or feedback on the options. Any other community can provide their own feedback or write their own petitions.

They don't have to conduct their own study. It just looks bad to propose moving someone else out of their high school.

Which is not what the proposal is about. VM and WW are being moved out of their current school one way or the other.

But Farmland and Luxmanor want them moved out of *Farmland and Luxmanor's* new high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It's kinda sad because they think they did "reach out" to work with the other schools. They sent chaser messages to anyone with a connection and pretended to just want to chat and get perspective, when it was really just to say "we're working together." And when they didn't get the response they wanted or expected--that the two ESes in question would leap at the chance to attend WJ--they dropped that tactic and quit engaging in the discussion with them.

+1 swap our house value for yours was never gonna work. idiots

Except, this is just the opposite. If we really want to talk about property values, the proposal would benefit everyone except the new WJ.

It would benefit Farmland / Luxmanor because Woodward would be stronger school than under the recommendation, absorbing some of the hit their home values are projected to take.

It would benefit VM the most since they would be going to an even stronger school, thus being significantly more appealing to home buyers going forward.

It would benefit WW because they will be joining Farmland / Luxmanor in a stronger Woodward than under the recommendation.

Property owners in the new WJ would be hit compared to the current recommendation but not significantly, if at all, compared to where they are today.

And finally, the hardest hit would be home developers currently building in the WJ zone expecting big profits.

[Anonymous]

Maybe Farmland and Luxmanor would be more successful if they proposed removing themselves from Woodward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It is not the petitioners’ job to conduct their own study. It is their right to present a concern or feedback on the options. Any other community can provide their own feedback or write their own petitions.

They don't have to conduct their own study. It just looks bad to propose moving someone else out of their high school.

Which is not what the proposal is about. VM and WW are being moved out of their current school one way or the other.

But Farmland and Luxmanor want them moved out of *Farmland and Luxmanor's* new high school.

'Moving out' of the school that has yet to open and where no WW or VM student ever set foot is not moving out in a real sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It's kinda sad because they think they did "reach out" to work with the other schools. They sent chaser messages to anyone with a connection and pretended to just want to chat and get perspective, when it was really just to say "we're working together." And when they didn't get the response they wanted or expected--that the two ESes in question would leap at the chance to attend WJ--they dropped that tactic and quit engaging in the discussion with them.

+1 swap our house value for yours was never gonna work. idiots

Except, this is just the opposite. If we really want to talk about property values, the proposal would benefit everyone except the new WJ.

It would benefit Farmland / Luxmanor because Woodward would be stronger school than under the recommendation, absorbing some of the hit their home values are projected to take.

It would benefit VM the most since they would be going to an even stronger school, thus being significantly more appealing to home buyers going forward.

It would benefit WW because they will be joining Farmland / Luxmanor in a stronger Woodward than under the recommendation.

Property owners in the new WJ would be hit compared to the current recommendation but not significantly, if at all, compared to where they are today.

And finally, the hardest hit would be home developers currently building in the WJ zone expecting big profits.

All fine if that was the reason being stated for the proposal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Farmland and Luxmanor would be more successful if they proposed removing themselves from Woodward.

You may be onto something. They get moved to WJ and, to solve Woodward underutilization and WJ overcrowding, all three NBMS elementary schools get moved to Woodward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them.

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year. It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.

It's kinda sad because they think they did "reach out" to work with the other schools. They sent chaser messages to anyone with a connection and pretended to just want to chat and get perspective, when it was really just to say "we're working together." And when they didn't get the response they wanted or expected--that the two ESes in question would leap at the chance to attend WJ--they dropped that tactic and quit engaging in the discussion with them.

+1 swap our house value for yours was never gonna work. idiots

Except, this is just the opposite. If we really want to talk about property values, the proposal would benefit everyone except the new WJ.

It would benefit Farmland / Luxmanor because Woodward would be stronger school than under the recommendation, absorbing some of the hit their home values are projected to take.

It would benefit VM the most since they would be going to an even stronger school, thus being significantly more appealing to home buyers going forward.

It would benefit WW because they will be joining Farmland / Luxmanor in a stronger Woodward than under the recommendation.

Property owners in the new WJ would be hit compared to the current recommendation but not significantly, if at all, compared to where they are today.

And finally, the hardest hit would be home developers currently building in the WJ zone expecting big profits.

All fine if that was the reason being stated for the proposal.

The reason stated was balancing two schools to give more equitable education choices to every involved. That reasoning also holds and is correlated with property values.