Northwood @ Woodward

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Chris Deraleau is the Woodward project manager. Rob Badstibner is the Northwood project manager.

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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.

No one I know thinks admin at Northwood is strong

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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....?

Vickie Adamson at Kennedy is an excellent principal. She's a highly experienced administrator that was the English RT at Blair for years.

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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.

No one I know thinks admin at Northwood is strong

I do, with a Northwood Junior. We’re very happy at Northwood, but also unhappy about many details of this move that were shared over the last few weeks: crazy early bus routes and no auditorium in the lead.

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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.

No one I know thinks admin at Northwood is strong

I do, with a Northwood Junior. We’re very happy at Northwood, but also unhappy about many details of this move that were shared over the last few weeks: crazy early bus routes and no auditorium in the lead.

The “crazy early” bus routes are what Lynne Harris and company want to inflict on the whole county. The “no auditorium” is what we get when council members prioritize increasing developers’ profits over building schools. If you don’t like any of this, vote differently. The elections are really your only chance to get something different because once people get elected in Montgomery County, they stop listening to voters.

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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.

No one I know thinks admin at Northwood is strong

I do, with a Northwood Junior. We’re very happy at Northwood, but also unhappy about many details of this move that were shared over the last few weeks: crazy early bus routes and no auditorium in the lead.

Several years ago when they were considering the options for a holding school for Northwood, did any of the other sites include an auditorium from the outset?

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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.

No one I know thinks admin at Northwood is strong

Another Northwood parent here

Not the point of the discussion but there are many families at Northwood that are happy with the current administration and leadership especially if you knew how terrible this school was before current leadership

I could not imagine going through this without them

[Anonymous]

Whenever they have school construction and relocate the school to a temporary location, why wouldn't they disperse the school student body to neighboring schools instead? I know there's crowding at most high schools but I would think setting up portables at neighboring schools would be an easier solution that busing an entire student body across country. Northwood has around 1800 students, if you dispersed that across 5-6 high schools in the area, wouldn't that be easier for all involved?

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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....?

Vickie Adamson at Kennedy is an excellent principal. She's a highly experienced administrator that was the English RT at Blair for years.

Are you calling her an "excellent" principal based on how she's performed this year as a principal at Kennedy or your previous experiences with her as an RT at Blair? Cause being an RT is different from being a principal and this is her first year as an MCPS principal.

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Anonymous wrote:Whenever they have school construction and relocate the school to a temporary location, why wouldn't they disperse the school student body to neighboring schools instead? I know there's crowding at most high schools but I would think setting up portables at neighboring schools would be an easier solution that busing an entire student body across country. Northwood has around 1800 students, if you dispersed that across 5-6 high schools in the area, wouldn't that be easier for all involved?

Most schools in the DCC are at or over capacity, except for Kennedy. The solution you are proposing is not viable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This explains a lot and is completely insane. How is there not one person at the top overseeing everything? Is no one looking at the big picture for Northwood students?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This explains a lot and is completely insane. How is there not one person at the top overseeing everything? Is no one looking at the big picture for Northwood students?

As said earlier, there is a project manager for each construction project. The principal works closely with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I wish I knew whether you were just misinformed, or whether you are intentionally spreading disinformation to undermine confidence in public education. As others have pointed out, there are individuals in charge of each of the two projects, both of whom are working closely with Northwood administration to minimize the disruption in a situation that was always going to be a challenge.

[Anonymous]

I'm still flabbergasted that they built not one, but two new high schools that will be incomplete upon opening without auditoriums. Nobody would dream of opening a HS without athletic facilities, but naturally performing arts are the first up on the chopping block.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I wish I knew whether you were just misinformed, or whether you are intentionally spreading disinformation to undermine confidence in public education. As others have pointed out, there are individuals in charge of each of the two projects, both of whom are working closely with Northwood administration to minimize the disruption in a situation that was always going to be a challenge.

This is wrong information. The Northwood principal and administrators have been kept in the dark about many things. In fact the administrators walked out of the community meeting because they were so upset and were not allowed to say anything negative about the process