New "W" High School

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

B-CC is not involved, even if you post a billion times on DCUM that is is.

There is a "new school" listed as "programmed" in the CIPs for the WJ and BCC clusters called WJ/BCC elementary school presumably to shuffle around some ES school boundaries for those clusters. There is no date listed for it.

Yes...and? That has nothing to do with Woodward. Look up Woodward in the same CIP and you'll see it is referenced in the WJ and DCC chapters only.

Someone is trying to manifest BCC into Woodward, they've been doing it for years, and I honestly don't have any idea why.

Any competent BOE will adjust boundary of all adjacent HS's to Woodward. It will mainly help with overcrowding in DCC and WJ, but it's be will criminal if BOE does not use this time line to adjust boundaries of many others at the same time.

3 HS together will have lots of seats. All boundaries should be adjusted to make the best possible decision without having to bus kids long distance.

ALL adjacent high schools? I went through a boundary study that only had 3 high schools. If you think MCPS has the capacity to do a boundary study with that many high schools, I don't know what to say. Not to mention, imagine that many high schools' worth of affluent, outraged parents and property owners.

MCPS has a budget of $3 billion. Of course it has the capacity to do a boundary study of as many high schools as they want to. In fact they already spent multiple hundreds of thousands on a feasibility study of this very thing looking at the entire county to determine how boundaries might look if they took three different scenarios into account. This report was released during covid I believe.

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

BCC is nowhere near Woodward—it's 5.8 miles away. I can't imagine they'd bus kids that far, especially with morning commuter traffic.

Kids are bused more than that currently in the DCC as well as those kids attending magnet programs. I don't think 5.8 miles is a big deal to MCPS.

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No one knows.

As a pp correctly notes, WJ absorbed the Woodward students as enrollment in the area declined. In the main hall at WJ there is a [velvet?] roped off area of the floor that contains the WJ Spartan seal.

Like many, WJ is very crowded. I don't see the most recent At a Glance, but it's likely an enrollment of 2900+ students with a capacity of 2321. So yes, I would anticipate that several feeders shift to the new school, especially with Tilden Middle reverting as its feeder MS. (ES=Garrett Park, Farmland, Luxmanor currently).

What is your elementary school OP?

As for the Ws, does the BOE or have a renaming....

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

B-CC is not involved, even if you post a billion times on DCUM that is is.

There is a "new school" listed as "programmed" in the CIPs for the WJ and BCC clusters called WJ/BCC elementary school presumably to shuffle around some ES school boundaries for those clusters. There is no date listed for it.

Yes...and? That has nothing to do with Woodward. Look up Woodward in the same CIP and you'll see it is referenced in the WJ and DCC chapters only.

Someone is trying to manifest BCC into Woodward, they've been doing it for years, and I honestly don't have any idea why.

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Maybe someone in SS wants in to BCC with the other SS families and they are hoping of shift of boundaries so the Kensington kids (who attend Silver Creek and B-CC) to Woodward does the trick.

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

B-CC is not involved, even if you post a billion times on DCUM that is is.

There is a "new school" listed as "programmed" in the CIPs for the WJ and BCC clusters called WJ/BCC elementary school presumably to shuffle around some ES school boundaries for those clusters. There is no date listed for it.

Yes...and? That has nothing to do with Woodward. Look up Woodward in the same CIP and you'll see it is referenced in the WJ and DCC chapters only.

Someone is trying to manifest BCC into Woodward, they've been doing it for years, and I honestly don't have any idea why.

Any competent BOE will adjust boundary of all adjacent HS's to Woodward. It will mainly help with overcrowding in DCC and WJ, but it's be will criminal if BOE does not use this time line to adjust boundaries of many others at the same time.

3 HS together will have lots of seats. All boundaries should be adjusted to make the best possible decision without having to bus kids long distance.

ALL adjacent high schools? I went through a boundary study that only had 3 high schools. If you think MCPS has the capacity to do a boundary study with that many high schools, I don't know what to say. Not to mention, imagine that many high schools' worth of affluent, outraged parents and property owners.

MCPS has a budget of $3 billion. Of course it has the capacity to do a boundary study of as many high schools as they want to. In fact they already spent multiple hundreds of thousands on a feasibility study of this very thing looking at the entire county to determine how boundaries might look if they took three different scenarios into account. This report was released during covid I believe.

If you're talking about the boundary analysis, no, that did not "determine how boundaries might look." There were no new boundary maps proposed.

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

From the plans shown during the community meeting, it just looked like they were going to have to move Northwood into the building before they could finish the athletic fields and the like. There was no mention of performing arts, but that would be great if there were one. Hopefully they will have an APEX program like WJ's, considering WJ students may be reassigned after beginning the program.

Yes, pretty much the whole two years the Northwood students will be at Woodward, it will still be an active construction site.

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

B-CC is not involved, even if you post a billion times on DCUM that is is.

There is a "new school" listed as "programmed" in the CIPs for the WJ and BCC clusters called WJ/BCC elementary school presumably to shuffle around some ES school boundaries for those clusters. There is no date listed for it.

Yes...and? That has nothing to do with Woodward. Look up Woodward in the same CIP and you'll see it is referenced in the WJ and DCC chapters only.

Someone is trying to manifest BCC into Woodward, they've been doing it for years, and I honestly don't have any idea why.

Any competent BOE will adjust boundary of all adjacent HS's to Woodward. It will mainly help with overcrowding in DCC and WJ, but it's be will criminal if BOE does not use this time line to adjust boundaries of many others at the same time.

3 HS together will have lots of seats. All boundaries should be adjusted to make the best possible decision without having to bus kids long distance.

ALL adjacent high schools? I went through a boundary study that only had 3 high schools. If you think MCPS has the capacity to do a boundary study with that many high schools, I don't know what to say. Not to mention, imagine that many high schools' worth of affluent, outraged parents and property owners.

MCPS has a budget of $3 billion. Of course it has the capacity to do a boundary study of as many high schools as they want to. In fact they already spent multiple hundreds of thousands on a feasibility study of this very thing looking at the entire county to determine how boundaries might look if they took three different scenarios into account. This report was released during covid I believe.

And yet, they don't.

For the boundary analysis, which was not a boundary study, they used a consultant. And, of course, because it was a boundary analysis and not a boundary study, it didn't even change any boundaries - and they still had to have police at the parent meetings. Now imagine the meetings when there's a real prospect of changing "W" high school boundaries in Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

B-CC is not involved, even if you post a billion times on DCUM that is is.

There is a "new school" listed as "programmed" in the CIPs for the WJ and BCC clusters called WJ/BCC elementary school presumably to shuffle around some ES school boundaries for those clusters. There is no date listed for it.

Yes...and? That has nothing to do with Woodward. Look up Woodward in the same CIP and you'll see it is referenced in the WJ and DCC chapters only.

Someone is trying to manifest BCC into Woodward, they've been doing it for years, and I honestly don't have any idea why.

You do realize that an earlier CIP included Woodward to relieve overcrowding at BCC? And that parents went nuts and it was taken out of the next CIP? And, that any future board can change what any prior board decided? Meaning, they can decide to put BCC back into Woodward, or any other high school, at any time

No, it was not included in an earlier CIP. It was discussed at some initial roundtable meetings but never made it into an actual plan.

Actually, check out the Lyttonsville Master Plan (Sector Plan?). That's where it was first mentioned that Woodward would relieve overcrowding at BCC, before BCC parents went apoplectic

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

BCC is nowhere near Woodward—it's 5.8 miles away. I can't imagine they'd bus kids that far, especially with morning commuter traffic.

Kids are bused more than that currently in the DCC as well as those kids attending magnet programs. I don't think 5.8 miles is a big deal to MCPS.

Exactly and parts of BCC's boundary now are in south Kensington which is even closer to Woodward than BCC.

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BCC is the most attractive school and has the best location and campus. I'd be ticked if my kid were moved from BCC.

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

B-CC is not involved, even if you post a billion times on DCUM that is is.

There is a "new school" listed as "programmed" in the CIPs for the WJ and BCC clusters called WJ/BCC elementary school presumably to shuffle around some ES school boundaries for those clusters. There is no date listed for it.

Yes...and? That has nothing to do with Woodward. Look up Woodward in the same CIP and you'll see it is referenced in the WJ and DCC chapters only.

Someone is trying to manifest BCC into Woodward, they've been doing it for years, and I honestly don't have any idea why.

You do realize that an earlier CIP included Woodward to relieve overcrowding at BCC? And that parents went nuts and it was taken out of the next CIP? And, that any future board can change what any prior board decided? Meaning, they can decide to put BCC back into Woodward, or any other high school, at any time

No, it was not included in an earlier CIP. It was discussed at some initial roundtable meetings but never made it into an actual plan.

Actually, check out the Lyttonsville Master Plan (Sector Plan?). That's where it was first mentioned that Woodward would relieve overcrowding at BCC, before BCC parents went apoplectic

That is not the CIP, and has nothing to do with MCPS school boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of those schools are very far away from Woodward, especially Blair and Northwood. Would they really bus kids that far?

I wouldn't think they would as it makes no sense. It will also probably pull from WJ. They'd have to change all the boundaries.

Maybe they will create a new magnet?

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Anonymous wrote:They will change a few neighborhoods on the very edges of DCC, at most. They will draw from the bulk of DCC only through the magnet program, which will do just a little to help DCC overcrowding and likely take from among the more motivated DCC students. Ws need not be concerned -- their needs will be met, and they won't have to worry about socioeconomic mixing.

Now the boundary analysis, on the other hand...nah -- that has enough over-focused political interest to burn itself up and get buried. No real solutions for those most in need.

What magnet program?

Woodward is supposed to have a magnet program when it opens. Regional, I think, maybe arts/performing arts? They were going to be building that out while the displaced Northwood population resided there for 2 years after completion of phase 1.

Nothing about a new magnet program has been decided.

Sources tell me this won't happen.

Good. Every available seat in the building is going to be needed f
or the WJ + DCC kids.

Nah, just the nearby adjacent schools like WJ, Einstein, and BCC. By making room at these schools, they can shift their boundaries to create room at other adjacent DCC schools when needed.

B-CC is not involved, even if you post a billion times on DCUM that is is.

There is a "new school" listed as "programmed" in the CIPs for the WJ and BCC clusters called WJ/BCC elementary school presumably to shuffle around some ES school boundaries for those clusters. There is no date listed for it.

Yes...and? That has nothing to do with Woodward. Look up Woodward in the same CIP and you'll see it is referenced in the WJ and DCC chapters only.

Someone is trying to manifest BCC into Woodward, they've been doing it for years, and I honestly don't have any idea why.

You do realize that an earlier CIP included Woodward to relieve overcrowding at BCC? And that parents went nuts and it was taken out of the next CIP? And, that any future board can change what any prior board decided? Meaning, they can decide to put BCC back into Woodward, or any other high school, at any time

No, it was not included in an earlier CIP. It was discussed at some initial roundtable meetings but never made it into an actual plan.

Actually, check out the Lyttonsville Master Plan (Sector Plan?). That's where it was first mentioned that Woodward would relieve overcrowding at BCC, before BCC parents went apoplectic

That was highly notional (and now not accurate). Developer-friendly county planning folks used it to full effect, however, pushing greater densities. Now, of course, there is going to be even greater DCC crowding.

Some in MCPS push for capital projects that benefit high-SES areas. Others without such aims know this, but are content to let problems in low-SES areas fester to increase the pressure to rezone. Nobody seems to care about getting things solved for DCC in the meantime. National political paradigm writ small.

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Anonymous wrote:BCC is the most attractive school and has the best location and campus. I'd be ticked if my kid were moved from BCC.

If you live closer to another high school then that's kind of tough but there was never a guarantee and the new school may be even better.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of those schools are very far away from Woodward, especially Blair and Northwood. Would they really bus kids that far?

I wouldn't think they would as it makes no sense. It will also probably pull from WJ. They'd have to change all the boundaries.

Maybe they will create a new magnet?

The rumor was it would be a performing arts magnet!