Could Crown High School and/or Northwood stall out?
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Anonymous
It is the norm |
Anonymous
DP. Take a close look at the schools to see what they offer. MCPS doesn’t offer nearly the same experience at Einstein or Gaithersburg that it does at WJ or Wootton. The teachers at the former have less experience and fewer advanced degrees than the teachers at the latter. The activities are fewer and generally of lower quality. MCPS flat out does not care about disparate services throughout the system so long as it appears to be closing the achievement gap, and MCPS is unwilling to impose effective discipline to make all schools safe for students and teachers. I don’t blame PP for seeking a higher quality school. It’s not like you pay a lower tax rate for living in area zoned for schools that offer a lower level of service. |
Anonymous
It is the norm for MCPS construction process to take significantly longer than whatever they first stated. |
Anonymous
But Northwood being relocated to a holding school for 3 years is not the norm for HS construction. |
Anonymous
That's because they usually build the new addition or new building next to the existing building, which remains in operation. But that wasn't possible at Northwood. |
Anonymous
True, but even when they used to relocate a HS to a holding school during construction (Northwood itself was the old holding school), it was for two years, not three. This is a new timeline. |
Anonymous
It is the norm for all construction projects to take longer than first stated |
Anonymous
Poor kids don't value education like middle and upper class kids do so it's definitely a loss. |
Anonymous
True, it used to be 2 years. The construction companies have now said that due to supply chain issues, they cannot get it done in two and have said it will take 3. However, the multiple delays before this, are all on MCPS |
Anonymous
I have no doubt that it will get delayed beyond the 3 years too. I started paying attention to all this boundary talk because I thought my kids (HS class of 2030 in the DCC) would be impacted but at this rate I feel like they will definitely be juniors by the time any re-zoning actually goes into effect and therefore will be able to stay where they are if they want. |
Anonymous
(As far as I can tell from DCUM (usual disclaimers apply), middle and upper class parents also don't value education. They value what you can buy with the education credentials, which is not at all the same thing.) |
Anonymous
Not that kind of delay. The kind of delay where the funding is cut and the project stalls for years and years or is cancelled. Many, many MCPS projects have disappeared for years and years or never happened. |
Anonymous
| I am looking at RMs future growth (according to at a glance) and it is only going up. Their renovation was cancelled several years back because of Crown. In a few years it will be 500 over capacity. Where are these decreases happening? |
Anonymous
In October 2017, the FY2019 CIP was released, and was the first in which Woodward's reopening as a high school was proposed. Tracking how the project's planned Date of Completion has changed over the years: CIP : Date of Completion for Woodward HS reopening FY2019: TBD FY2020: TBD FY2021: Sept. 2025 FY2022: Sept. 2025 FY2023: August 2025 FY2024: August 2026 FY2025: August 2027 |
Anonymous
These are the latest projections. It has a max of 389 over capacity. So, still going up, but not as high as thought earlier. https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP25_Chapter4Montgomery.pdf |