Dcc transfer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

The school that is the worst in the dcc AND is relocating all the way to Rockville next year .. I'm sorry that I want what's best for my child , and what's best is not sending her to a school that has fights and bad influences there every day !!

There have been very few fights this year. There are fights at Blair, Wheaton and Kennedy as well. I don’t think Northwood is that different from Blair (non-magnet). I know a couple of kids who go to Northwood and they are great kids who seem happy with the teachers at Northwood. Perhaps you could email the principal and ask if your daughter could do a shadow day there although the last couple of weeks of school might not be the best time

I have kids at Blair and Wheaton. There are fights at Blair all the time. But Wheaton is much calmer and DS hasn’t seen any fights. Maybe they are there, but not like Blair. Wheaton is a great school. Be careful what you wish for.

This happened at Wheaton last year: https://wjla.com/news/local/wheaton-high-school-bb-gun-montgomery-county-police-loaded-handgun-marijuana-backpack-teen-student

None of the DCC schools are immune from criminal and violent behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

The school that is the worst in the dcc AND is relocating all the way to Rockville next year .. I'm sorry that I want what's best for my child , and what's best is not sending her to a school that has fights and bad influences there every day !!

There have been very few fights this year. There are fights at Blair, Wheaton and Kennedy as well. I don’t think Northwood is that different from Blair (non-magnet). I know a couple of kids who go to Northwood and they are great kids who seem happy with the teachers at Northwood. Perhaps you could email the principal and ask if your daughter could do a shadow day there although the last couple of weeks of school might not be the best time

I have kids at Blair and Wheaton. There are fights at Blair all the time. But Wheaton is much calmer and DS hasn’t seen any fights. Maybe they are there, but not like Blair. Wheaton is a great school. Be careful what you wish for.

This happened at Wheaton last year: https://wjla.com/news/local/wheaton-high-school-bb-gun-montgomery-county-police-loaded-handgun-marijuana-backpack-teen-student

None of the DCC schools are immune from criminal and violent behavior.

Yes, but she is talking about fights. It seems tension and fights don’t occur as much at Wheaton. Blair seems to be almost on a daily basis. I think she is in for a surprise. And what you cite isn’t just DCC schools, that is all over MCPS.

[Anonymous]

The principal at Northwood is really great. He's improved the climate at the school as far as I can tell. I also have heard good things about the teachers there. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. All high schools have fights and drugs.

If your daughter is a motivated kid, she'll find her peer group at any school.

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

A 17 minute walk is too far? Your daughter sounds spoiled. My kids walk 30 mins to school and have never complained.

Do your kids have to walk along a busy road where there are accidents almost every day ?

I would have absolutely zero qualms if they had to. There are not accidents “almost every day” on any short stretch of highway in the area, and certainly not accidents involving pedestrians. This is a high school kid. She can walk to the bus stop and look after herself and Jeri herself safe from traffic. A 17 min walk is nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

Your daughter walks further because YOU choose not to send her to her home school.

The school that is the worst in the dcc AND is relocating all the way to Rockville next year .. I'm sorry that I want what's best for my child , and what's best is not sending her to a school that has fights and bad influences there every day !!

There have been very few fights this year. There are fights at Blair, Wheaton and Kennedy as well. I don’t think Northwood is that different from Blair (non-magnet). I know a couple of kids who go to Northwood and they are great kids who seem happy with the teachers at Northwood. Perhaps you could email the principal and ask if your daughter could do a shadow day there although the last couple of weeks of school might not be the best time

I have kids at Blair and Wheaton. There are fights at Blair all the time. But Wheaton is much calmer and DS hasn’t seen any fights. Maybe they are there, but not like Blair. Wheaton is a great school. Be careful what you wish for.

This happened at Wheaton last year: https://wjla.com/news/local/wheaton-high-school-bb-gun-montgomery-county-police-loaded-handgun-marijuana-backpack-teen-student

None of the DCC schools are immune from criminal and violent behavior.

Neither is our W. Apparently there was a kid with a knife chasing people around the parking lot.

[Anonymous]

OP - You are all over the place and you need to find your argument and stick with it.

Is the transportation system the problem? Put your effort into escalating the request for an additional bus stop, ideally by identifying a location already on the route or a very short detour.

Or, look at hybrid public transportation and school transportation. If the road she is meant to walk along is indeed extremely busy, there's probably a bus line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The principal at Northwood is really great. He's improved the climate at the school as far as I can tell. I also have heard good things about the teachers there. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. All high schools have fights and drugs.

If your daughter is a motivated kid, she'll find her peer group at any school.

Kennedy parent here, but got to glimpse the Northwood principal in action at one of the Family Fentanyl Forums, and though my observations of him were brief, I will agree, even in that brief glimpse, he seemed like a good, strong, caring admin. Nothing like the one we have in place at Kennedy currently...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - You are all over the place and you need to find your argument and stick with it.

Is the transportation system the problem? Put your effort into escalating the request for an additional bus stop, ideally by identifying a location already on the route or a very short detour.

Or, look at hybrid public transportation and school transportation. If the road she is meant to walk along is indeed extremely busy, there's probably a bus line.

For the DCC consortium schools, they only offer to centralized transportation so to get the local she wants she needs to go back to her home school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP - You are all over the place and you need to find your argument and stick with it.

Is the transportation system the problem? Put your effort into escalating the request for an additional bus stop, ideally by identifying a location already on the route or a very short detour.

Or, look at hybrid public transportation and school transportation. If the road she is meant to walk along is indeed extremely busy, there's probably a bus line.

For the DCC consortium schools, they only offer to centralized transportation so to get the local she wants she needs to go back to her home school.

Good point, but the suggestion about using public bus stands. If this is truly a very busy road with accidents "every day," I think we can assume public bus service. So, if we assume OP is talking about either Georgia or University Avenues, either of which could be in bounds for Northwood, both have pretty consistent public bus routes, and students ride free. So that 19 minute death march becomes a 5 minute free bus ride.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP - You are all over the place and you need to find your argument and stick with it.

Is the transportation system the problem? Put your effort into escalating the request for an additional bus stop, ideally by identifying a location already on the route or a very short detour.

Or, look at hybrid public transportation and school transportation. If the road she is meant to walk along is indeed extremely busy, there's probably a bus line.

For the DCC consortium schools, they only offer to centralized transportation so to get the local she wants she needs to go back to her home school.

No, in many DCC neighborhoods there are local bus stops to multiple DCC high schools. The centralized transportation is for the magnet and immersion programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:OP - You are all over the place and you need to find your argument and stick with it.

Is the transportation system the problem? Put your effort into escalating the request for an additional bus stop, ideally by identifying a location already on the route or a very short detour.

Or, look at hybrid public transportation and school transportation. If the road she is meant to walk along is indeed extremely busy, there's probably a bus line.

For the DCC consortium schools, they only offer to centralized transportation so to get the local she wants she needs to go back to her home school.

No, in many DCC neighborhoods there are local bus stops to multiple DCC high schools. The centralized transportation is for the magnet and immersion programs.

In our neighborhood, they pick the kids up for the other schools at the local elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - You are all over the place and you need to find your argument and stick with it.

Is the transportation system the problem? Put your effort into escalating the request for an additional bus stop, ideally by identifying a location already on the route or a very short detour.

Or, look at hybrid public transportation and school transportation. If the road she is meant to walk along is indeed extremely busy, there's probably a bus line.

For the DCC consortium schools, they only offer to centralized transportation so to get the local she wants she needs to go back to her home school.

No, in many DCC neighborhoods there are local bus stops to multiple DCC high schools. The centralized transportation is for the magnet and immersion programs.

In our neighborhood, they pick the kids up for the other schools at the local elementary school.

We're zoned for Northwood but there are bus stops for Wheaton, Kennedy and Einstein within 3 blocks of our house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP - You are all over the place and you need to find your argument and stick with it.

Is the transportation system the problem? Put your effort into escalating the request for an additional bus stop, ideally by identifying a location already on the route or a very short detour.

Or, look at hybrid public transportation and school transportation. If the road she is meant to walk along is indeed extremely busy, there's probably a bus line.

For the DCC consortium schools, they only offer to centralized transportation so to get the local she wants she needs to go back to her home school.

No, in many DCC neighborhoods there are local bus stops to multiple DCC high schools. The centralized transportation is for the magnet and immersion programs.

In our neighborhood, they pick the kids up for the other schools at the local elementary school.

We're zoned for Northwood but there are bus stops for Wheaton, Kennedy and Einstein within 3 blocks of our house.

That’s great. Ours are far more than three blocks which is why we choose the home school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you getting your info about fights every day?

I am an eyewitness and my daughter knows kids who have seen these fights happen as well

You think this will not happen at Blair too?

OP is not well-informed about public schools in MoCo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From your description, you have no better reason to want a change of school than anyone in the county would. You want your first choice and didn’t get it. You have a closer school but just don’t want it. I don’t think an appeal will work.

Yeah sure .. there are students who live way farther than us outside the dcc who don’t have to walk as far as my daughter.. Really appreciate your positive attitude and open mindedness to other people’s struggles !!!

A 17 minute walk is too far? Your daughter sounds spoiled. My kids walk 30 mins to school and have never complained.

Do your kids have to walk along a busy road where there are accidents almost every day ?

Wouldn’t that be true for students at any high school on a busy road? Which is… most of them.