Chris Deraleau is the Woodward project manager. Rob Badstibner is the Northwood project manager. |
No one I know thinks admin at Northwood is strong |
Vickie Adamson at Kennedy is an excellent principal. She's a highly experienced administrator that was the English RT at Blair for years. |
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. |
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? |
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 |
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? |
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. |
Most schools in the DCC are at or over capacity, except for Kennedy. The solution you are proposing is not viable. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |