Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
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Anonymous
That's the problem Woodward students may face as well. |
Anonymous
DCC is used to split articulation. Its not a big deal. You are creating drama where there is none. |
Anonymous
Woodward will be a W school. It will have the academics. The kids with the issue are ones like mine and I'm not sure what we are going to do - move or go private for the youngest, probably private as its cheaper than moving for us. We learned our lesson with our oldest. |
Anonymous
Of course it's part of the discussion. Since we are 6 super regions, kids cannot get into Blair and for stem oriented students Wheaton is the only option. |
Anonymous
That's why talking about how great option Wheaton will be is just meanigless. Wheaton STEM program will look different. |
Anonymous
This is not a real problem. A vanishingly small number of high school students take multivariable calculus anywhere. If it’s that important to you then take your child to community college. |
Anonymous
ART focused focused school with 35-40% FARMS is not going to be a W school in sense you are thinking. |
Anonymous
Take a look at all schools with low FARMS rate. I will be surprised if MVC is not offered. |
Anonymous
MVC is an example which will be offered in WJ, Wooton, RM, Churchill, Whitman But it's not about MVC. It's about normal higher level courses which will be available in WJ but not in Woodward. |
Anonymous
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That's the problem in attending school focused on Art and high FARMS. It's not likely to offer MVC and Linear Algebra even if kid is ready for it.
This is not a real problem. A vanishingly small number of high school students take multivariable calculus anywhere. If it’s that important to you then take your child to community college. DP MVC should be seen here only as an example. There are many reasons to think that Woodward will have poor class offering - high FARMS typically means not much interest in advanced courses, Arts classes will demand resources, lack of teachers since it will be a new school, ... |
Anonymous
DP You clearly have no idea of what you're talking. Wheaton has been sending more students to UMD school of engineering than any school in the state for at least the last 7 years. |
Anonymous
This is not a real problem. A vanishingly small number of high school students take multivariable calculus anywhere. If it’s that important to you then take your child to community college. DP MVC should be seen here only as an example. There are many reasons to think that Woodward will have poor class offering - high FARMS typically means not much interest in advanced courses, Arts classes will demand resources, lack of teachers since it will be a new school, ... Art programs are also deisgned in a way which requires taking set of courses. You can't just take one here and there. So it means most Art focused students are not really going to take many higher level courses in this set up. Add high FARMS and then many motivated kids trying to get to WJ for better course ... No way a new school like Woodward is going to offer decent higher level of courses when you see these factors. |
Anonymous
This is not a real problem. A vanishingly small number of high school students take multivariable calculus anywhere. If it’s that important to you then take your child to community college. DP MVC should be seen here only as an example. There are many reasons to think that Woodward will have poor class offering - high FARMS typically means not much interest in advanced courses, Arts classes will demand resources, lack of teachers since it will be a new school, ... 35% is not "high FARMS," it's lower than the county average. |
Anonymous
| This new plan has current 8th graders needing to switch schools in 10th. Taylor previously said they could stay where they start. Why did we go through this whole DCC process for all these kids if they have to shuffle schools in two years?! |
Anonymous
DP MVC should be seen here only as an example. There are many reasons to think that Woodward will have poor class offering - high FARMS typically means not much interest in advanced courses, Arts classes will demand resources, lack of teachers since it will be a new school, ... 35% is not "high FARMS," it's lower than the county average. Seriously. The poster having hysterics about a 35% FARMS rate being HIGH. Is nuts. High would be 50% or more. |