Northwood @ Woodward

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but what about the families who are in bounds? Aren't you assigned to your home school if no other placements come through?

No, it depends on where you rank your home school out of the five schools. If you rank your home school first, you'll be assigned there. If you rank your home school second, you'll be assigned to either your first choice school or your home school. If you rank your home school third, fourth, or fifth, there is no way to know where you'll be assigned and no home school preference.

Somebody has to go to Northwood. There's no way if everyone put Northwood in the bottom tiers that MCPS can honor that preference for everyone.

Of course. I'm sure there are many families still interested in going to Northwood that would not rank it at the bottom.

Northwood would be far better than Kennedy.

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:Come to the County Council meeting on Monday, April 8, 7pm and help protest the delayed auditorium!

Sure...to help the WJ families that are now PO'd that there is now a Phase III and it won't get all done by the time they move in. I mean, it isn't right, either, but we didn't hear much support for the Northwood situation from them a few years back when the plan became phased in the first place, with the lack of facilities detailed above.

No amount of advocacy at this point will get an auditorium in place for the Northwood kids.

WJ families should be grateful they are getting a new school and they've had their school remodeled unlike other schools.

Give me a break. WJ families will be glad to have their own school back once Woodward reopens.

Yeah, WJ is over capacity by 700 students - that's a whole elementary school. BOE did WJ families no favors with the Northwood holding school plan, delaying the long awaited relief for overcrowding by now-3 years.

Northwood isn't just relieving overcapacity at WJ, it is relieving DCC too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but what about the families who are in bounds? Aren't you assigned to your home school if no other placements come through?

No, it depends on where you rank your home school out of the five schools. If you rank your home school first, you'll be assigned there. If you rank your home school second, you'll be assigned to either your first choice school or your home school. If you rank your home school third, fourth, or fifth, there is no way to know where you'll be assigned and no home school preference.

Somebody has to go to Northwood. There's no way if everyone put Northwood in the bottom tiers that MCPS can honor that preference for everyone.

Of course. I'm sure there are many families still interested in going to Northwood that would not rank it at the bottom.

Northwood would be far better than Kennedy.

Why?

Administration at Northwood is strong. I have a kid at Northwood and one at another DCC school and Northwood is much calmer. MC2 and 2E programs are very strong at Northwood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but what about the families who are in bounds? Aren't you assigned to your home school if no other placements come through?

No, it depends on where you rank your home school out of the five schools. If you rank your home school first, you'll be assigned there. If you rank your home school second, you'll be assigned to either your first choice school or your home school. If you rank your home school third, fourth, or fifth, there is no way to know where you'll be assigned and no home school preference.

Somebody has to go to Northwood. There's no way if everyone put Northwood in the bottom tiers that MCPS can honor that preference for everyone.

Of course. I'm sure there are many families still interested in going to Northwood that would not rank it at the bottom.

Northwood would be far better than Kennedy.

Why?

Administration at Northwood is strong. I have a kid at Northwood and one at another DCC school and Northwood is much calmer. MC2 and 2E programs are very strong at Northwood.

And Kennedy's administration is....?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come to the County Council meeting on Monday, April 8, 7pm and help protest the delayed auditorium!

Sure...to help the WJ families that are now PO'd that there is now a Phase III and it won't get all done by the time they move in. I mean, it isn't right, either, but we didn't hear much support for the Northwood situation from them a few years back when the plan became phased in the first place, with the lack of facilities detailed above.

No amount of advocacy at this point will get an auditorium in place for the Northwood kids.

WJ families should be grateful they are getting a new school and they've had their school remodeled unlike other schools.

Give me a break. WJ families will be glad to have their own school back once Woodward reopens.

Yeah, WJ is over capacity by 700 students - that's a whole elementary school. BOE did WJ families no favors with the Northwood holding school plan, delaying the long awaited relief for overcrowding by now-3 years.

Northwood isn't just relieving overcapacity at WJ, it is relieving DCC too.

Yes. Northwood reconstruction also relieves that overcapacity. Northwood is unhappy about being moved into Rockville and having a 30% unfinished school, no athletic fields, no auditorium. WJ community is upset about 3 year delay in Woodward occuoancy. Lots of annoyance to go around.

[Anonymous]

According to this document from tomorrow's board meeting, Woodward construction is 91% completed.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/D3YSXL74D3DC/$file/Construct%20Prog%20Rpt%20240331.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come to the County Council meeting on Monday, April 8, 7pm and help protest the delayed auditorium!

Sure...to help the WJ families that are now PO'd that there is now a Phase III and it won't get all done by the time they move in. I mean, it isn't right, either, but we didn't hear much support for the Northwood situation from them a few years back when the plan became phased in the first place, with the lack of facilities detailed above.

No amount of advocacy at this point will get an auditorium in place for the Northwood kids.

WJ families should be grateful they are getting a new school and they've had their school remodeled unlike other schools.

Give me a break. WJ families will be glad to have their own school back once Woodward reopens.

Yeah, WJ is over capacity by 700 students - that's a whole elementary school. BOE did WJ families no favors with the Northwood holding school plan, delaying the long awaited relief for overcrowding by now-3 years.

I would plan for a 4 year delay. Knowing MCPS, the odds of something going wrong are high

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to this document from tomorrow's board meeting, Woodward construction is 91% completed.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/D3YSXL74D3DC/$file/Construct%20Prog%20Rpt%20240331.pdf

It is complete bs. So many things are unfinished. They shared info at a Northwood staff meeting and tensions were extremely high because people could not believe some of the stuff they were hearing. The school feels like a downgrade in its present form even when compared with Northwood’s old and crappy building

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come to the County Council meeting on Monday, April 8, 7pm and help protest the delayed auditorium!

Sure...to help the WJ families that are now PO'd that there is now a Phase III and it won't get all done by the time they move in. I mean, it isn't right, either, but we didn't hear much support for the Northwood situation from them a few years back when the plan became phased in the first place, with the lack of facilities detailed above.

No amount of advocacy at this point will get an auditorium in place for the Northwood kids.

WJ families should be grateful they are getting a new school and they've had their school remodeled unlike other schools.

Give me a break. WJ families will be glad to have their own school back once Woodward reopens.

Yeah, WJ is over capacity by 700 students - that's a whole elementary school. BOE did WJ families no favors with the Northwood holding school plan, delaying the long awaited relief for overcrowding by now-3 years.

I would plan for a 4 year delay. Knowing MCPS, the odds of something going wrong are high

They should be able to get a better estimate of the timing after they start demolition of the old Northwood building this summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to this document from tomorrow's board meeting, Woodward construction is 91% completed.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/D3YSXL74D3DC/$file/Construct%20Prog%20Rpt%20240331.pdf

It is complete bs. So many things are unfinished. They shared info at a Northwood staff meeting and tensions were extremely high because people could not believe some of the stuff they were hearing. The school feels like a downgrade in its present form even when compared with Northwood’s old and crappy building

It is a holding school. Holding schools are always a temporary downgrade, followed by a move to a bright and shiny new building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but what about the families who are in bounds? Aren't you assigned to your home school if no other placements come through?

No, it depends on where you rank your home school out of the five schools. If you rank your home school first, you'll be assigned there. If you rank your home school second, you'll be assigned to either your first choice school or your home school. If you rank your home school third, fourth, or fifth, there is no way to know where you'll be assigned and no home school preference.

Somebody has to go to Northwood. There's no way if everyone put Northwood in the bottom tiers that MCPS can honor that preference for everyone.

Of course. I'm sure there are many families still interested in going to Northwood that would not rank it at the bottom.

Northwood would be far better than Kennedy.

If MCPS had been honest about how the new school is not even 70% finished, all families would have marked it as last.

This outcome was obvious as soon as the council cut impact fees. Keep listening to the YIMBY crowd and we’ll have more schools without auditoriums and eventually schools without playing fields.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anytime a school relocates to a holding school things are iffy. Our kids' ES did it for 18 months, into an absolute wreck of a holding facility with a trailer park out back because it was nowhere near large enough. At least the Woodward building will be new!

I think I know which school this is describing. It was a long 18 months with gym in the cafeteria and the bus commute from Hades

[Anonymous]

Why is anyone surprised? The present MCPS clowns are engaged in a race to the bottom. MCPS used to be better but unfortunately it gets a little worse every year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to this document from tomorrow's board meeting, Woodward construction is 91% completed.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/D3YSXL74D3DC/$file/Construct%20Prog%20Rpt%20240331.pdf

It is complete bs. So many things are unfinished. They shared info at a Northwood staff meeting and tensions were extremely high because people could not believe some of the stuff they were hearing. The school feels like a downgrade in its present form even when compared with Northwood’s old and crappy building

Isn't it 91% of phase 1 (of 3)?

[Anonymous]

https://moco360.media/2024/04/11/northwood-high-students-parents-share-frustration-with-proposed-plans-for-pending-move-to-woodward-high/

There was a community meeting yesterday about the move to Woodward. What blew my mind the most about this was there is no one in charge of overseeing the whole construction & move, just little departments (transportation, athletics, etc.) working on their little piece of the puzzle. Explains a lot.