Woodward HS boundary study - BCC, Blair, Einstein, WJ, Kennedy, Northwood, Wheaton, Whitman impacts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution is not to bus students from one side of University to the other; it's to make it safer to cross University, which is not something under MCPS's control. It's a state road anyway, so maybe contacting your state reps is the better plan.

Correct, it's not under MCPS's control, but it is an issue that MCPS could be interested in. However, currently, it is not an issue that MCPS is interested in.

And to the PP who says this is all beside the point - it's not. If you live across the street from School A, and you get bused because MCPS has decided it's not safe to walk, then you're not in the walk zone, and MCPS could well decide that since you're on a bus regardless, you should take the bus to School B instead of School A.

Here's another example: students in the Wyngate neighborhood get bused to WJ. On the west side, a lot of Fernwood doesn't have sidewalks, and on the east side, there's the Beltway. So if they're getting bused to WJ anyway, why not bus them to Einstein instead?

Because there is no room! Isn't that what Woodward is for? Why are people always suggesting sending additional students to Einstein, when it is already overcrowded, it is projected to grow even more so, it is not getting an addition, and it will end up as the smallest building of all the high schools in the study?

I swear it's people who have no personal experience and Einstein and instead are just looking to stir up WJ parents.

[Anonymous]

*at Einstein

[Anonymous]

People laughed at my posts the past few years about how far the opening of Woodward would reach.

I must have known something somehow. hmmmm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The crash volume at Connecticut/EW is similar to that on Veirs Mill for crossings to NM/Einstein. Fewer crashes at Denfeld/Connecticut and Adams/Connecticut than at EW/Connecticut.

It's not just Connecticut. It's all the other big roads, too. Randolph, Georgia, Veirs Mill, University...

To be consistent, MCPS has to either pull busing from BCC and make them cross Connecticut too, or add busing for all of the DCC schools across all of the big roads. I don't think people in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be happy with the first alternative, which I kind of understand. For the second alternative, MCPS would have to buy a lot more buses and hire a lot more bus drivers, when there's already a shortage. There's no good solution, except actually making the big roads safe, which is not under MCPS control.

And actually it's not just the DCC. Kids in the east county have to cross New Hampshire. Kids in Rockville-Aspen Hill have to cross Norbeck. Kids in the upcounty have to cross 355, 28, Great Seneca, Germantown Road, etc.

Basically, whenever you're driving around, and you see a school crossing sign, you have to think, would I feel safe letting my kids cross there? If you wouldn't, that's a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The crash volume at Connecticut/EW is similar to that on Veirs Mill for crossings to NM/Einstein. Fewer crashes at Denfeld/Connecticut and Adams/Connecticut than at EW/Connecticut.

It's not just Connecticut. It's all the other big roads, too. Randolph, Georgia, Veirs Mill, University...

To be consistent, MCPS has to either pull busing from BCC and make them cross Connecticut too, or add busing for all of the DCC schools across all of the big roads. I don't think people in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be happy with the first alternative, which I kind of understand. For the second alternative, MCPS would have to buy a lot more buses and hire a lot more bus drivers, when there's already a shortage. There's no good solution, except actually making the big roads safe, which is not under MCPS control.

And actually it's not just the DCC. Kids in the east county have to cross New Hampshire. Kids in Rockville-Aspen Hill have to cross Norbeck. Kids in the upcounty have to cross 355, 28, Great Seneca, Germantown Road, etc.

Basically, whenever you're driving around, and you see a school crossing sign, you have to think, would I feel safe letting my kids cross there? If you wouldn't, that's a problem.

MCPS could work with the county to install school crossing zones along these commuter roads with speed limits and the flashing lights before ped crossings. At the crossing itself there would be a traffic signal with a flashing yellow light that turns red to allow students to cross safely when they depress the button. Other townships and counties throughout the US do this. This would allow for safe MCPS walk zones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The crash volume at Connecticut/EW is similar to that on Veirs Mill for crossings to NM/Einstein. Fewer crashes at Denfeld/Connecticut and Adams/Connecticut than at EW/Connecticut.

It's not just Connecticut. It's all the other big roads, too. Randolph, Georgia, Veirs Mill, University...

To be consistent, MCPS has to either pull busing from BCC and make them cross Connecticut too, or add busing for all of the DCC schools across all of the big roads. I don't think people in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be happy with the first alternative, which I kind of understand. For the second alternative, MCPS would have to buy a lot more buses and hire a lot more bus drivers, when there's already a shortage. There's no good solution, except actually making the big roads safe, which is not under MCPS control.

And actually it's not just the DCC. Kids in the east county have to cross New Hampshire. Kids in Rockville-Aspen Hill have to cross Norbeck. Kids in the upcounty have to cross 355, 28, Great Seneca, Germantown Road, etc.

Basically, whenever you're driving around, and you see a school crossing sign, you have to think, would I feel safe letting my kids cross there? If you wouldn't, that's a problem.

MCPS could work with the county to install school crossing zones along these commuter roads with speed limits and the flashing lights before ped crossings. At the crossing itself there would be a traffic signal with a flashing yellow light that turns red to allow students to cross safely when they depress the button. Other townships and counties throughout the US do this. This would allow for safe MCPS walk zones.

A Veirs Mill Road project is already planned:
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/projects/veirsmill/index.html

[Anonymous]

What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution is not to bus students from one side of University to the other; it's to make it safer to cross University, which is not something under MCPS's control. It's a state road anyway, so maybe contacting your state reps is the better plan.

Correct, it's not under MCPS's control, but it is an issue that MCPS could be interested in. However, currently, it is not an issue that MCPS is interested in.

And to the PP who says this is all beside the point - it's not. If you live across the street from School A, and you get bused because MCPS has decided it's not safe to walk, then you're not in the walk zone, and MCPS could well decide that since you're on a bus regardless, you should take the bus to School B instead of School A.

Here's another example: students in the Wyngate neighborhood get bused to WJ. On the west side, a lot of Fernwood doesn't have sidewalks, and on the east side, there's the Beltway. So if they're getting bused to WJ anyway, why not bus them to Einstein instead?

Because there is no room! Isn't that what Woodward is for? Why are people always suggesting sending additional students to Einstein, when it is already overcrowded, it is projected to grow even more so, it is not getting an addition, and it will end up as the smallest building of all the high schools in the study?

I swear it's people who have no personal experience and Einstein and instead are just looking to stir up WJ parents.

You mean the parents bought homes at the furthest reaches of a boundary to get a W school miles and miles away? Welcome to the down county life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

Not sure what you meant, but Whitman is the whitest school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

Not sure what you meant, but Whitman is the whitest school.

Whitest in the DCC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

Not sure what you meant, but Whitman is the whitest school.

Whitest in the DCC?

That poster is just another in the long line of annoying people who like to provoke the ToK parents. Those of us in Kensington and zoned for Einstein don’t have any desire for Parkwood to be added to Einstein. Einstein already has the lowest capacity of the schools in this boundary study and is terribly overcrowded. I don’t want my kid attending school in portables just because someone is trying to stick it to the ToK parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

Not sure what you meant, but Whitman is the whitest school.

Whitest in the DCC?

That poster is just another in the long line of annoying people who like to provoke the ToK parents. Those of us in Kensington and zoned for Einstein don’t have any desire for Parkwood to be added to Einstein. Einstein already has the lowest capacity of the schools in this boundary study and is terribly overcrowded. I don’t want my kid attending school in portables just because someone is trying to stick it to the ToK parents.

New word - what is a Tok parent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

Not sure what you meant, but Whitman is the whitest school.

Whitest in the DCC?

That poster is just another in the long line of annoying people who like to provoke the ToK parents. Those of us in Kensington and zoned for Einstein don’t have any desire for Parkwood to be added to Einstein. Einstein already has the lowest capacity of the schools in this boundary study and is terribly overcrowded. I don’t want my kid attending school in portables just because someone is trying to stick it to the ToK parents.

New word - what is a Tok parent?

"Town of Kensington." Town residents are zoned to WJ, while others with Kensington addresses but outside the town limits are zoned for Einstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will most likely happen is that Kensington Parkwood Elementary will be added to the DCC cluster with Einstein being the home school. As a result two present Einstein feeder elementary schools will be moved further inside.

Being the whitest school in Montgomery County, the Einstein teams needs these test scores and lack of diversity to balance out what they have.

Not sure what you meant, but Whitman is the whitest school.

Whitest in the DCC?

That poster is just another in the long line of annoying people who like to provoke the ToK parents. Those of us in Kensington and zoned for Einstein don’t have any desire for Parkwood to be added to Einstein. Einstein already has the lowest capacity of the schools in this boundary study and is terribly overcrowded. I don’t want my kid attending school in portables just because someone is trying to stick it to the ToK parents.

New word - what is a Tok parent?

"Town of Kensington." Town residents are zoned to WJ, while others with Kensington addresses but outside the town limits are zoned for Einstein.

Some outside the ToK with Kensington addresses go to Einstein. Many go to WJ, too. Postal addresses have no bearing on MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The crash volume at Connecticut/EW is similar to that on Veirs Mill for crossings to NM/Einstein. Fewer crashes at Denfeld/Connecticut and Adams/Connecticut than at EW/Connecticut.

It's not just Connecticut. It's all the other big roads, too. Randolph, Georgia, Veirs Mill, University...

To be consistent, MCPS has to either pull busing from BCC and make them cross Connecticut too, or add busing for all of the DCC schools across all of the big roads. I don't think people in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be happy with the first alternative, which I kind of understand. For the second alternative, MCPS would have to buy a lot more buses and hire a lot more bus drivers, when there's already a shortage. There's no good solution, except actually making the big roads safe, which is not under MCPS control.

And actually it's not just the DCC. Kids in the east county have to cross New Hampshire. Kids in Rockville-Aspen Hill have to cross Norbeck. Kids in the upcounty have to cross 355, 28, Great Seneca, Germantown Road, etc.

Basically, whenever you're driving around, and you see a school crossing sign, you have to think, would I feel safe letting my kids cross there? If you wouldn't, that's a problem.

Seriously, you think that kids who are a few years from independence cannot cross a street with a traffic light? They can drive, but not cross the road? The infantilizing has got to stop.