Woodward boundary study public hearing

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Anonymous wrote:Last 15 or so posts - all from the same poster. Woke up from his afternoon nap. It is impossible to conduct any meaningful exchange of opinions with this noise going on.

My bet: a WJ zoned geezer trying to perfectly time his property sale before departing for Florida. For WJ property value maximization it is not enough to have strong WJ HS. It also needs weak neighboring schools.

Says the Farmland guy whenever there is any differing view.

Anyone know the admissions process for Charles E Smith? It's about to get real popular.

https://www.cesjds.org/admission

That will be interesting to see if many Farmland families go private for HS once the changes take effect. Many can certainly afford CESJDS

$50k/year/kid for high school? I don't think that "many" there can do that comfortably.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last 15 or so posts - all from the same poster. Woke up from his afternoon nap. It is impossible to conduct any meaningful exchange of opinions with this noise going on.

My bet: a WJ zoned geezer trying to perfectly time his property sale before departing for Florida. For WJ property value maximization it is not enough to have strong WJ HS. It also needs weak neighboring schools.

Says the Farmland guy whenever there is any differing view.

Anyone know the admissions process for Charles E Smith? It's about to get real popular.

https://www.cesjds.org/admission

That will be interesting to see if many Farmland families go private for HS once the changes take effect. Many can certainly afford CESJDS

$50k/year/kid for high school? I don't think that "many" there can do that comfortably.

There are some extremely wealthy enclaves in the Farmland/Luxmanor area (esp. Luxmanor). Many in the general county most certainly could not afford that price.

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Anonymous wrote:Last 15 or so posts - all from the same poster. Woke up from his afternoon nap. It is impossible to conduct any meaningful exchange of opinions with this noise going on.

My bet: a WJ zoned geezer trying to perfectly time his property sale before departing for Florida. For WJ property value maximization it is not enough to have strong WJ HS. It also needs weak neighboring schools.

Says the Farmland guy whenever there is any differing view.

Anyone know the admissions process for Charles E Smith? It's about to get real popular.

https://www.cesjds.org/admission

That will be interesting to see if many Farmland families go private for HS once the changes take effect. Many can certainly afford CESJDS

$50k/year/kid for high school? I don't think that "many" there can do that comfortably.

There are some extremely wealthy enclaves in the Farmland/Luxmanor area (esp. Luxmanor). Many in the general county most certainly could not afford that price.

Not as extremely wealthy as the enclave that Taylor lives in.

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Anonymous wrote:Last 15 or so posts - all from the same poster. Woke up from his afternoon nap. It is impossible to conduct any meaningful exchange of opinions with this noise going on.

My bet: a WJ zoned geezer trying to perfectly time his property sale before departing for Florida. For WJ property value maximization it is not enough to have strong WJ HS. It also needs weak neighboring schools.

Says the Farmland guy whenever there is any differing view.

Anyone know the admissions process for Charles E Smith? It's about to get real popular.

https://www.cesjds.org/admission

That will be interesting to see if many Farmland families go private for HS once the changes take effect. Many can certainly afford CESJDS

$50k/year/kid for high school? I don't think that "many" there can do that comfortably.

There are some extremely wealthy enclaves in the Farmland/Luxmanor area (esp. Luxmanor). Many in the general county most certainly could not afford that price.

Not as extremely wealthy as the enclave that Taylor lives in.

Correct. Those kids go to school at places like Sidwell and GDS (a whole different ballgame)

[Anonymous]

I did not watch the hearing, but recently heard from a neighbor that there is growing advocacy to push for option B. Is there truth to this and did it come up in the public meeting? That option would be terrible for our neighborhood- we are walking sitance to Sligo but kids would be sent to SSIMS- I don't know why that was thrown out there as a potential option to begin with. So overall I was ok with Taylor's recommendation as it relates to our neighborhood. It's just hard to keep up with the changes and to anticipate what MCPS will throw out there next. The options for our neighborhood changed pretty drastically from the first to second round and caught a lot of people off guard.

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Anonymous wrote:Tbh the frustration really is with the utilization rate. After having three kids at WJ, the overcrowding has gotten really, really bad. Opening Woodward at 91% puts them right in the same boat VERY quickly. MCPS plays this little game by only looking at actually approved new developments, while ignoring all the development we all know is coming.

In my opinion, MCPS was catering to Wheaton over the utilization issue over Woodward. But that’s not what all the analysis and numbers pointed to - that’s why we hire unbiased consultants.

It will be interesting to see what they bring back to the BOE, if we get to see that.

I also listened to the tape and didn’t hear any parents saying anything bad about FARMs students. They really didn’t deserve the criticism they received and I don’t that is appropriate commentary from a board member. That type of public criticism can dissuade the public from exercising their first amendment rights.

We all knew the White Flint Mall site would be redeveloped since 2014ish....it's now a motorcycle camp and wild forest. I think the development concern is over stated tbh

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Anonymous wrote:I did not watch the hearing, but recently heard from a neighbor that there is growing advocacy to push for option B. Is there truth to this and did it come up in the public meeting? That option would be terrible for our neighborhood- we are walking sitance to Sligo but kids would be sent to SSIMS- I don't know why that was thrown out there as a potential option to begin with. So overall I was ok with Taylor's recommendation as it relates to our neighborhood. It's just hard to keep up with the changes and to anticipate what MCPS will throw out there next. The options for our neighborhood changed pretty drastically from the first to second round and caught a lot of people off guard.

There is some push for original Option B with regard to the now Current WJ cluster (sounds mainly like the Farmland/Luxmanor crew at the BOE mtg), not necessarily rest of map (but clearly would send WW back to Wheaton High).

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please, the farmland and luxmanor parents came across as classist and racist. The one mom whining that her child wouldn't get his gifted needs met at a 36% FARMS school?

If this was reverse, and WJ was getting more FARMS kids, you know the elementary school parents at Ashburton, Wyngate, and KP would be doing the exact same thing as the Farmland and Luxmanor parents.

That is called prejudice. Own it

Yup - and why isn’t WJ getting any higher FARMS kids?

Not relevant. See Montoya quote above if you want to recall why this will be a losing point to keep harping on. Goal is getting their votes and support.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last 15 or so posts - all from the same poster. Woke up from his afternoon nap. It is impossible to conduct any meaningful exchange of opinions with this noise going on.

My bet: a WJ zoned geezer trying to perfectly time his property sale before departing for Florida. For WJ property value maximization it is not enough to have strong WJ HS. It also needs weak neighboring schools.

Says the Farmland guy whenever there is any differing view.

Anyone know the admissions process for Charles E Smith? It's about to get real popular.

https://www.cesjds.org/admission

That will be interesting to see if many Farmland families go private for HS once the changes take effect. Many can certainly afford CESJDS

Could it alleviate the "over-crowding" (air quotes) at new Woodward (which is at 90% utilization rate) and drive it back to 80% like they want? They should factor that into the data. My guess is they will deal with public.

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Some have opted into private already to avoid the messy transition. Can you blame them?

I heard the one mom testify about whether she should let her son take a language other than the top two. I would not. It is doubtful they will offer that other language, at least in the beginning, at Woodward. They’ll say he can switch languages. No guarantees he would get into WJ for their humanities program (every Woodward will apply).

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The job of the BOE is to listen to the public comments, not chastise. I wonder if they have a policy about that?

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Anonymous wrote:Some have opted into private already to avoid the messy transition. Can you blame them?

I heard the one mom testify about whether she should let her son take a language other than the top two. I would not. It is doubtful they will offer that other language, at least in the beginning, at Woodward. They’ll say he can switch languages. No guarantees he would get into WJ for their humanities program (every Woodward will apply).

If he’s choosing the language this year then he’s in 8th grade now and the 8th graders aren’t eligible for the new program model - they are on the old system - so no applying to humanities program at WJ. It’s very complicated doing all this at once and different grades facing different changes/disruptions. It’s not super fun to be caught in the transition years for anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did not watch the hearing, but recently heard from a neighbor that there is growing advocacy to push for option B. Is there truth to this and did it come up in the public meeting? That option would be terrible for our neighborhood- we are walking sitance to Sligo but kids would be sent to SSIMS- I don't know why that was thrown out there as a potential option to begin with. So overall I was ok with Taylor's recommendation as it relates to our neighborhood. It's just hard to keep up with the changes and to anticipate what MCPS will throw out there next. The options for our neighborhood changed pretty drastically from the first to second round and caught a lot of people off guard.

I'm another silver spring parent who strongly prefers modified option B to option B. I don't know anything about the Woodward dispute but I hope the baby doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater on the silver spring side.

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The most selective colleges will want four years of the same language, mcps only requires 2.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I did not watch the hearing, but recently heard from a neighbor that there is growing advocacy to push for option B. Is there truth to this and did it come up in the public meeting? That option would be terrible for our neighborhood- we are walking sitance to Sligo but kids would be sent to SSIMS- I don't know why that was thrown out there as a potential option to begin with. So overall I was ok with Taylor's recommendation as it relates to our neighborhood. It's just hard to keep up with the changes and to anticipate what MCPS will throw out there next. The options for our neighborhood changed pretty drastically from the first to second round and caught a lot of people off guard.

There is some push for original Option B with regard to the now Current WJ cluster (sounds mainly like the Farmland/Luxmanor crew at the BOE mtg), not necessarily rest of map (but clearly would send WW back to Wheaton High).

Yes, the push for original option B is focused on the option B region 3 boundaries and has ignored the differences between original option B and the Superintendent’s rec for Region 1. Everyone who bothers to comment on here about how a change would affect them should take 5 min to email the BOE. It is not hard to do and more effective in making sure the Board considers various points of view than posting here.