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Anonymous
The only absurd post here is yours....stats are stats....if 500 qualify and they take 100 from each high school your kid was not better than the other 400. If it makes yourself feel better to tell yourself that feel free. If another highschool has only 300 that qualify and still takes 100 you have better odds. As a note - I am a Wootton parent but my kid went Ivy. That does not make my kid better than yours. |
Anonymous
| Check your messages they sent out the virtual connection details for the upcoming meetings. Be there! |
Anonymous
In one way that makes sense, but then you have the issue of maximizing walkers. If much of BH is within Whitman's walk zone, I think they will keep it assigned there. Or at least split-articulate. |
Anonymous
Why split? |
Anonymous
Like if they want to keep the walkers as walkers, they could draw a line there and still rezone those who are already bus riders. |
Anonymous
But its not like they are going to send Cabin John to WJ. Most of Whitmans zone is to the West of Whitman and the lack of other schools that way cement it can only be plucked apart from the East. But I can see little of Whitman being effected when all said and done. BCC, WJ and Einstein fill in Woodward and a few schools backfill to balance things out. I wouldn't be surprised if Kensington becomes a Woodward zone |
Anonymous
I think a little of the northern part of Whitman's zone will move to WJ, and a little of the western part of BCC's zone will move to Whitman. |
Anonymous
WJ is so overcrowded that by the time they take extras from WJ, Woodward will be full. Don't see how they can take any from BCC and Einstein or any other school really |
Anonymous
Woodward will have a capacity of 2249. WJ is ~800 over capacity. Even if they send 1200 students from WJ to Woodward, there would still be 1000 more seats available. |
Anonymous
Because Wootton has higher academic achievement outcomes than the other high schools that Crown will draw from, and that matters to me more than a new building. Seems like for the next year or so there will be significant uncertainty for all elementary schools currently in the Wootton cluster, and still some but less for Winston Churchill. Right? Thanks! |
Anonymous
Yes there is uncertainty for Wootton, Churchill, and nearly 20 other clusters too. We can make guesses here, but no one really knows how it will turn out, because Taylor wasn't here for any previous study, and he makes the final recommendation, which the board is likely to follow. |
Anonymous
Shouldn't they keep a few hundred seats open to factor for growth within Woodward boundary whatever boundaries that will be? There are lots of condos and apartments around Woodward/ Old G'town Road/Strathmore which may be occupied by families with school aged children. |
Anonymous
The boundary study meeting info should be blasted to ES, MS and underclassmen HS families. Families should be driving the decisions not Taylor. The loud parents will show up but there should be a survey or some other ways to reach less visible families to gather their inputs. |
Anonymous
Yes, ideally when all is said and done, each of the schools should have some room to grow. That's one of the four factors to be considered: utilization. |
Anonymous
They have had surveys in past studies, but they're usually oddly written questions which don't really get at the main concerns. I hope the two new consulting firms they hired will have better community outreach techniques. |