Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Silver Spring in walking distance of Blair and still assigned to a school not within walking distance. Not happy with this at all plus the dissolution of the DCC. Lots of unhappy neighbors.

Where do you even live? Looks like they did reassign everyone near Blair to Blair, except for the folks nearish Blair but south of the beltway... but folks south of the beltway (SSIMS families) don't really think they ought to be assigned to Blair, do they? How would that even work?

DP but I’m sure many SCES families would like the whole school reassigned to Blair. Blair is closer for everyone, and Blair used to be right where SCES/SSIMS are now and is largely zoned accordingly. But yes it would require zoning another school away from Blair, which is another can of worms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Silver Spring in walking distance of Blair and still assigned to a school not within walking distance. Not happy with this at all plus the dissolution of the DCC. Lots of unhappy neighbors.

Where do you even live? Looks like they did reassign everyone near Blair to Blair, except for the folks nearish Blair but south of the beltway... but folks south of the beltway (SSIMS families) don't really think they ought to be assigned to Blair, do they? How would that even work?

DP but I’m sure many SCES families would like the whole school reassigned to Blair. Blair is closer for everyone, and Blair used to be right where SCES/SSIMS are now and is largely zoned accordingly. But yes it would require zoning another school away from Blair, which is another can of worms.

But most SCES and Highland View families can't even walk to Blair-- not quickly or safely, anyway. So it doesn't really make sense.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I think the walk zone argument would be reasonable but it seems like all the walk zone kids for Blair are assigned to a walking school (I believe the walk zones for Blair and Northwood overlap). Basically what SCES families are saying is that we would like other kids to have a long bus ride so our kids can have a short bus ride. Versus the current situation of all the kids having a medium bus ride.

MCPS decision to keep the Takoma Park schools assigned to Blair definitely makes sense for the county as a whole. I don't think moving TPES was ever seriously considered, nor in my opinion should it have been.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I think the walk zone argument would be reasonable but it seems like all the walk zone kids for Blair are assigned to a walking school (I believe the walk zones for Blair and Northwood overlap). Basically what SCES families are saying is that we would like other kids to have a long bus ride so our kids can have a short bus ride. Versus the current situation of all the kids having a medium bus ride.

MCPS decision to keep the Takoma Park schools assigned to Blair definitely makes sense for the county as a whole. I don't think moving TPES was ever seriously considered, nor in my opinion should it have been.

Not quite Takoma Park, but almost— moving East Silver Spring was considered. I’m glad it wasn’t in Taylor’s rec.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone heard if they ever clarified the discrepancy with the new Einstein/BCC boundary line? The superintendent's recommendation says this:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Cluster
● Students assigned to Woodlin Elementary School who reside west of the MARC Brunswick train line will be reassigned to Silver Creek Middle School and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Albert Einstein High School Cluster
● Students assigned to Woodlin Elementary School who reside east of the MARC Brunswick line will be reassigned to Silver Spring International Middle School School


But the interactive map shows the part of Woodin's area west of the MARC Brunswick line around 16th St and East-West Highway as assigned to SSIMS and Einstein. So which is correct, the text or the map?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard if they ever clarified the discrepancy with the new Einstein/BCC boundary line? The superintendent's recommendation says this:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Cluster
● Students assigned to Woodlin Elementary School who reside west of the MARC Brunswick train line will be reassigned to Silver Creek Middle School and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Albert Einstein High School Cluster
● Students assigned to Woodlin Elementary School who reside east of the MARC Brunswick line will be reassigned to Silver Spring International Middle School School


But the interactive map shows the part of Woodin's area west of the MARC Brunswick line around 16th St and East-West Highway as assigned to SSIMS and Einstein. So which is correct, the text or the map?

Are you sure you’re looking at the interactive map for the Superintendent’s recommendation and not the one with options A-G? The text is correct and the new interactive map shows the split articulation but it’s not the same interactive map from earlier in the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard if they ever clarified the discrepancy with the new Einstein/BCC boundary line? The superintendent's recommendation says this:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Cluster
● Students assigned to Woodlin Elementary School who reside west of the MARC Brunswick train line will be reassigned to Silver Creek Middle School and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Albert Einstein High School Cluster
● Students assigned to Woodlin Elementary School who reside east of the MARC Brunswick line will be reassigned to Silver Spring International Middle School School


But the interactive map shows the part of Woodin's area west of the MARC Brunswick line around 16th St and East-West Highway as assigned to SSIMS and Einstein. So which is correct, the text or the map?

Are you sure you’re looking at the interactive map for the Superintendent’s recommendation and not the one with options A-G? The text is correct and the new interactive map shows the split articulation but it’s not the same interactive map from earlier in the process.

Yes, looking at the superintendent's recommendation interactive map tool. It does show a split articulation, but it's not aligned with the railroad tracks down by 16th and East-West, which is what the text says it should be.

[Anonymous]

The difference is:

The current Woodlin area to be assigned to B-CC,which happens to be north of the Walter Reed Annex and the light industrial zone along Brookeville Rd (between them, nearly all of the area shifted, with no residential units), is made up of single family homes, newer somewhat upscale townhouses and the somewhat expensive condominium dwellings of the reconditioned seminary. Current B-CC-area residents, whose boundaries otherwise are not changing (nor are Wootton's, nor WJ's (aside from the split -- they absorb nothing not already theirs), will be OK absorbing these families, and that area will be zoned to RHES/NCCES (if they keep the paired school system) with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

Meanwhile, the current Woodlin area west of the tracks but along 16th Street/E-W Hwy is, with one minor exception, a mix of high-rise and garden-style apartments that generally serve lower-income families, which some B-CC-area families have complained about ever since a subset of those buildings (about half of the Summit Hills complex and the smaller buildings next door) was assigned to be together with them in the RHES/NCCES/CCES K-2/3-5 pairing.

The rail line configuration doesn't present real differences between the two areas -- in each case access to Woodlin ES is by a street (or two, but leas direct) which passes over the tracks. However, the walk along Linden is a much more hazardous endeavor than the walk along 16th. While neither is particularly walkable to NCCES, it's actually an easier walk to Woodlin from the area along Linden than it is to RHES, while the opposite is the case for the area along 16th. Of course, there would be fewer students to absorb from the Linden area than from the 16th St area, but that's probably OK with the B-CC folk, too. It's about the $$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The difference is:

The current Woodlin area to be assigned to B-CC,which happens to be north of the Walter Reed Annex and the light industrial zone along Brookeville Rd (between them, nearly all of the area shifted, with no residential units), is made up of single family homes, newer somewhat upscale townhouses and the somewhat expensive condominium dwellings of the reconditioned seminary. Current B-CC-area residents, whose boundaries otherwise are not changing (nor are Wootton's, nor WJ's (aside from the split -- they absorb nothing not already theirs), will be OK absorbing these families, and that area will be zoned to RHES/NCCES (if they keep the paired school system) with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

Meanwhile, the current Woodlin area west of the tracks but along 16th Street/E-W Hwy is, with one minor exception, a mix of high-rise and garden-style apartments that generally serve lower-income families, which some B-CC-area families have complained about ever since a subset of those buildings (about half of the Summit Hills complex and the smaller buildings next door) was assigned to be together with them in the RHES/NCCES/CCES K-2/3-5 pairing.

The rail line configuration doesn't present real differences between the two areas -- in each case access to Woodlin ES is by a street (or two, but leas direct) which passes over the tracks. However, the walk along Linden is a much less hazardous endeavor than the walk along 16th. While neither is particularly walkable to NCCES, it's actually an easier walk to Woodlin from the area along Linden than it is to RHES, while the opposite is the case for the area along 16th. Of course, there would be fewer students to absorb from the Linden area than from the 16th St area, but that's probably OK with the B-CC folk, too. It's about the $$$.

^^ correction

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The difference is:

The current Woodlin area to be assigned to B-CC, which happens to be north of the Walter Reed Annex and the light industrial zone along Brookeville Rd (between them, nearly all of the area shifted, with no residential units), is made up of single family homes, newer somewhat upscale townhouses and the somewhat expensive condominium dwellings of the reconditioned seminary. Current B-CC-area residents, whose boundaries otherwise are not changing (nor are Whitman's, nor WJ's (aside from the split -- they absorb nothing not already theirs), will be OK absorbing these families, and that area will be zoned to RHES/NCCES (if they keep the paired school system) with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

Meanwhile, the current Woodlin area west of the tracks but along 16th Street/E-W Hwy is, with one minor exception, a mix of high-rise and garden-style apartments that generally serve lower-income families, which some B-CC-area families have complained about ever since a subset of those buildings (about half of the Summit Hills complex and the smaller buildings next door) was assigned to be together with them in the RHES/NCCES/CCES K-2/3-5 pairing.

The rail line configuration doesn't present real differences between the two areas -- in each case access to Woodlin ES is by a street (or two, but leas direct) which passes over the tracks. However, the walk along Linden is a much less hazardous endeavor than the walk along 16th. While neither is particularly walkable to NCCES, it's actually an easier walk to Woodlin from the area along Linden than it is to RHES, while the opposite is the case for the area along 16th. Of course, there would be fewer students to absorb from the Linden area than from the 16th St area, but that's probably OK with the B-CC folk, too. It's about the $$$.

^^ sigh, double correction (palmface)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The difference is:

The current Woodlin area to be assigned to B-CC,which happens to be north of the Walter Reed Annex and the light industrial zone along Brookeville Rd (between them, nearly all of the area shifted, with no residential units), is made up of single family homes, newer somewhat upscale townhouses and the somewhat expensive condominium dwellings of the reconditioned seminary. Current B-CC-area residents, whose boundaries otherwise are not changing (nor are Wootton's, nor WJ's (aside from the split -- they absorb nothing not already theirs), will be OK absorbing these families, and that area will be zoned to RHES/NCCES (if they keep the paired school system) with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

Meanwhile, the current Woodlin area west of the tracks but along 16th Street/E-W Hwy is, with one minor exception, a mix of high-rise and garden-style apartments that generally serve lower-income families, which some B-CC-area families have complained about ever since a subset of those buildings (about half of the Summit Hills complex and the smaller buildings next door) was assigned to be together with them in the RHES/NCCES/CCES K-2/3-5 pairing.

The rail line configuration doesn't present real differences between the two areas -- in each case access to Woodlin ES is by a street (or two, but leas direct) which passes over the tracks. However, the walk along Linden is a much less hazardous endeavor than the walk along 16th. While neither is particularly walkable to NCCES, it's actually an easier walk to Woodlin from the area along Linden than it is to RHES, while the opposite is the case for the area along 16th. Of course, there would be fewer students to absorb from the Linden area than from the 16th St area, but that's probably OK with the B-CC folk, too. It's about the $$$.

^^ correction

Walter Reed does not have an annex. It’s part of Ft Detrick.

[Anonymous]

I see what you’re saying. The map shows some of the area west of the train tracks reassigned to Silver Creek/BCC but not all of the area west of the train tracks.

would tend to assume the map is right, but I have no particular reason for saying that other than it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that would be an easy mistake to make when creating the map. The interactive map and the PDF map they put out both show the same thing too - the southern area west of the train tracks staying at Einstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The difference is:

The current Woodlin area to be assigned to B-CC,which happens to be north of the Walter Reed Annex and the light industrial zone along Brookeville Rd (between them, nearly all of the area shifted, with no residential units), is made up of single family homes, newer somewhat upscale townhouses and the somewhat expensive condominium dwellings of the reconditioned seminary. Current B-CC-area residents, whose boundaries otherwise are not changing (nor are Wootton's, nor WJ's (aside from the split -- they absorb nothing not already theirs), will be OK absorbing these families, and that area will be zoned to RHES/NCCES (if they keep the paired school system) with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

Meanwhile, the current Woodlin area west of the tracks but along 16th Street/E-W Hwy is, with one minor exception, a mix of high-rise and garden-style apartments that generally serve lower-income families, which some B-CC-area families have complained about ever since a subset of those buildings (about half of the Summit Hills complex and the smaller buildings next door) was assigned to be together with them in the RHES/NCCES/CCES K-2/3-5 pairing.

The rail line configuration doesn't present real differences between the two areas -- in each case access to Woodlin ES is by a street (or two, but leas direct) which passes over the tracks. However, the walk along Linden is a much less hazardous endeavor than the walk along 16th. While neither is particularly walkable to NCCES, it's actually an easier walk to Woodlin from the area along Linden than it is to RHES, while the opposite is the case for the area along 16th. Of course, there would be fewer students to absorb from the Linden area than from the 16th St area, but that's probably OK with the B-CC folk, too. It's about the $$$.

^^ correction

Walter Reed does not have an annex. It’s part of Ft Detrick.

Sure. Tell me you haven't lived here for a long-ass time without telling me you haven't lived here for a long-ass time :smile:

[Anonymous]

Is this thread going to go off the rails unhinged like the thread on Crown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The difference is:

The current Woodlin area to be assigned to B-CC,which happens to be north of the Walter Reed Annex and the light industrial zone along Brookeville Rd (between them, nearly all of the area shifted, with no residential units), is made up of single family homes, newer somewhat upscale townhouses and the somewhat expensive condominium dwellings of the reconditioned seminary. Current B-CC-area residents, whose boundaries otherwise are not changing (nor are Wootton's, nor WJ's (aside from the split -- they absorb nothing not already theirs), will be OK absorbing these families, and that area will be zoned to RHES/NCCES (if they keep the paired school system) with the upcoming elementary boundary study.

Meanwhile, the current Woodlin area west of the tracks but along 16th Street/E-W Hwy is, with one minor exception, a mix of high-rise and garden-style apartments that generally serve lower-income families, which some B-CC-area families have complained about ever since a subset of those buildings (about half of the Summit Hills complex and the smaller buildings next door) was assigned to be together with them in the RHES/NCCES/CCES K-2/3-5 pairing.

The rail line configuration doesn't present real differences between the two areas -- in each case access to Woodlin ES is by a street (or two, but leas direct) which passes over the tracks. However, the walk along Linden is a much less hazardous endeavor than the walk along 16th. While neither is particularly walkable to NCCES, it's actually an easier walk to Woodlin from the area along Linden than it is to RHES, while the opposite is the case for the area along 16th. Of course, there would be fewer students to absorb from the Linden area than from the 16th St area, but that's probably OK with the B-CC folk, too. It's about the $$$.

^^ correction

Walter Reed does not have an annex. It’s part of Ft Detrick.

Sure. Tell me you haven't lived here for a long-ass time without telling me you haven't lived here for a long-ass time :smile:

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