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.

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.

Ya 6+ miles seems normal to a DCC parent. It's because of things like moving Blair the largest HS in the county from downtown silver spring to outside the beltway while maintaining the same boundary.

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

Exactly, and even closer to Einstein so makes sense for BCC to be part of boundary changes.

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

Exactly, and even closer to Einstein so makes sense for BCC to be part of boundary changes.

"The edge of the Juan de Fuca plate is in a subduction zone."
"Exactly, that's why it makes sense for BCC to be part of the boundary changes."

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

This. Im in the DCC: 1.2 miles from Blair, 1.5 from Northwood but zoned to Einstein which is 3 miles away. And 5 from Woodward. So probably not going to be rezoned there but if there was a whole county rezoning study, it would make sense to rezone our house and our ES to Blair or Northwood. But they are also overcrowded.

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

This. Im in the DCC: 1.2 miles from Blair, 1.5 from Northwood but zoned to Einstein which is 3 miles away. And 5 from Woodward. So probably not going to be rezoned there but if there was a whole county rezoning study, it would make sense to rezone our house and our ES to Blair or Northwood. But they are also overcrowded.

Pp again. Oh and 3.5 miles from BCC too.

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

This. Im in the DCC: 1.2 miles from Blair, 1.5 from Northwood but zoned to Einstein which is 3 miles away. And 5 from Woodward. So probably not going to be rezoned there but if there was a whole county rezoning study, it would make sense to rezone our house and our ES to Blair or Northwood. But they are also overcrowded.

Pp again. Oh and 3.5 miles from BCC too.

A lot of this instantiy stems from when Blair was relocated from DTSS to outside the beltway. In fact, there are no HS in the SE portion of the county inside the beltway which is densly populated. This is partly why boundaries in the DCC are a mess and there's really no way to fix it.

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

This. Im in the DCC: 1.2 miles from Blair, 1.5 from Northwood but zoned to Einstein which is 3 miles away. And 5 from Woodward. So probably not going to be rezoned there but if there was a whole county rezoning study, it would make sense to rezone our house and our ES to Blair or Northwood. But they are also overcrowded.

Pp again. Oh and 3.5 miles from BCC too.

A lot of this instantiy stems from when Blair was relocated from DTSS to outside the beltway. In fact, there are no HS in the SE portion of the county inside the beltway which is densly populated. This is partly why boundaries in the DCC are a mess and there's really no way to fix it.

Oh they could fix it by adjusting boundaries everywhere but everyone would flip the f*** out.

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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.

Some kids can go to WJ from BCC, they don't have to bus to Woodward. WJ can move more kids to Woodward to make extra space. So on ....

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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.

Some kids can go to WJ from BCC, they don't have to bus to Woodward. WJ can move more kids to Woodward to make extra space. So on ....

Woodward is for WJ and the DCC. BCC is not part of it, no matter how many times you post on DCUM.

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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.

+1

Not doing proper boundary studies will be an extremely poor decision. MCPS already took inputs earlier from all clusters and there is no reason to not continue with the process just because some rich families in BCC or any other school does not want it.

Now if some BOE members get paid to abandon this process then it's a different issue.

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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.

Some kids can go to WJ from BCC, they don't have to bus to Woodward. WJ can move more kids to Woodward to make extra space. So on ....

Woodward is for WJ and the DCC. BCC is not part of it, no matter how many times you post on DCUM.

Current school catchments aren't immutable, populations and needs change, and, despite schools being listed by agents when a home is on the market, the purchase of a home or signing of a lease does not confer a right to any particular school.

Folks are making suggestions within a discussion. One that is unlikely to have any real influence over MCPS/BOE decisions, but one that is reasonable to have and with the potential to be informative.

No matter how many times you rail against that.

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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.

Some kids can go to WJ from BCC, they don't have to bus to Woodward. WJ can move more kids to Woodward to make extra space. So on ....

Woodward is for WJ and the DCC. BCC is not part of it, no matter how many times you post on DCUM.

Current school catchments aren't immutable, populations and needs change, and, despite schools being listed by agents when a home is on the market, the purchase of a home or signing of a lease does not confer a right to any particular school.

Folks are making suggestions within a discussion. One that is unlikely to have any real influence over MCPS/BOE decisions, but one that is reasonable to have and with the potential to be informative.

No matter how many times you rail against that.

Let me know when MCPS changes the CIP.

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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.

Some kids can go to WJ from BCC, they don't have to bus to Woodward. WJ can move more kids to Woodward to make extra space. So on ....

Woodward is for WJ and the DCC. BCC is not part of it, no matter how many times you post on DCUM.

What's does it even mean? WJ is not outside of MCPS. It's all one system. I am not sure what do you mean by how many times posing here. I have not posted in this forum for more than 1 years.


MCPS should do what's best for entire MCPS.

Yes, Woodward aim is to help WJ in overcrowding. But when doing the process, it's best to look at all adjacent boundaries to come up with something which does not involve long bus ride and also create diverse schools. That means diverse schools as much as possible in as many schools without having long bus rides. BCC, Churchill etc may not have overcrowding, but all boundaries should be looked at same time. That may mean shifting school population in Churchill. Whitman, BCC, WJ, DCC , Wootton, RM ....

It will be criminal for BOE to not do what's best for entire student population and simply listen to nonsense like Woodward is for WJ.

This is the best time to do widescale boundary change. Current set of parent getting angry should never be a reason to not do what's best for next 30 years.

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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.

I love when people pull distance arguments out of their rear end. The Kensington neighborhoods zoned for BCC are about 4 miles from BCC and wait for it…about 4 miles from Woodward

This. Im in the DCC: 1.2 miles from Blair, 1.5 from Northwood but zoned to Einstein which is 3 miles away. And 5 from Woodward. So probably not going to be rezoned there but if there was a whole county rezoning study, it would make sense to rezone our house and our ES to Blair or Northwood. But they are also overcrowded.

Pp again. Oh and 3.5 miles from BCC too.

A lot of this instantiy stems from when Blair was relocated from DTSS to outside the beltway. In fact, there are no HS in the SE portion of the county inside the beltway which is densly populated. This is partly why boundaries in the DCC are a mess and there's really no way to fix it.

Oh they could fix it by adjusting boundaries everywhere but everyone would flip the f*** out.

They need to do this though. There is no reason with this overcrowding, traffic, price of gas, all of the talk of teens need to sleep, and serious lack of buses and bus drivers, should ANY potential walkers or neighboring neighborhoods be bused to a further schools. If the SEC or races aren't matching and seem unfair, put the IB and Magnets in those schools.