Question about Woodward High School and Kensington/Garrett Park real estate

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

Huh? Kensington-Parkwood is not overcrowded. (Neither are Rock View or Oakland Terrace.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of this is superfluous..... It won't matter where you buy eventually. The county and it schools are going down the tubes. Huge budget deficits, tons retirees and not enough workers, too much spending, decreasing quality schools, increased taxes likely.....why MoCo? At this rate, the better deal will be a home in a cheaper location + private school.

Oh goodness...She's BAAAACK. Or he. Whatever.

Why limit yourself, PP? It won't matter where you buy eventually because THE WHOLE WORLD is going down the tubes. (Make sure that you buy well above current sea levels and flood plains, though.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

Huh? Kensington-Parkwood is not overcrowded. (Neither are Rock View or Oakland Terrace.)

The average kindergarten class size at KP is 22 and it is 16 at Rock View and 15 at Oakland Terrace. Same number of teachers in K classrooms. KP is definitely a school that feels bursting at the seams to me.

[Anonymous]

No one knows what will come out of the current boundary assessment recommendations, coming this June. Also, no one knows who will go to Woodward until they start the process, which won't be until 18 months before Woodward opens. So they will start figuring it out in the Spring of 2023 at the earliest. Want to wait to buy a house until then go for it. Otherwise buy the house you want

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

Huh? Kensington-Parkwood is not overcrowded. (Neither are Rock View or Oakland Terrace.)

The average kindergarten class size at KP is 22 and it is 16 at Rock View and 15 at Oakland Terrace. Same number of teachers in K classrooms. KP is definitely a school that feels bursting at the seams to me.

OK, but that's different than a school being overcrowded, which is about the enrollment at the school compared to the building's capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: No one knows what will come out of the current boundary assessment recommendations, coming this June. Also, no one knows who will go to Woodward until they start the process, which won't be until 18 months before Woodward opens. So they will start figuring it out in the Spring of 2023 at the earliest. Want to wait to buy a house until then go for it. Otherwise buy the house you want

And it's more like they'll start in the Spring of 2024 at the earliest, since the school is scheduled to open in Fall of 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

LOL. PP thinks Parkwood is Chevy Chase or Battery Park. Most people in Kensington live in crowded cape cods or ranchers and drive RAV 4s and CRVs. If anything, the area is fiercely middle class and lower middle class in their trappings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

Huh? Kensington-Parkwood is not overcrowded. (Neither are Rock View or Oakland Terrace.)

The average kindergarten class size at KP is 22 and it is 16 at Rock View and 15 at Oakland Terrace. Same number of teachers in K classrooms. KP is definitely a school that feels bursting at the seams to me.

My son is in Kindergarten at KP and has 20 in his class. All the classes this year are 20 or 21. Seems fine to me.
OK, but that's different than a school being overcrowded, which is about the enrollment at the school compared to the building's capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

Huh? Kensington-Parkwood is not overcrowded. (Neither are Rock View or Oakland Terrace.)

Double huh to the "really insufferable" comment. I have found that the area is fully of really pleasant, wonderful, down to earth people. yes, lots of folks have a pool membership but that's not exactly rolling in the dough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

Huh? Kensington-Parkwood is not overcrowded. (Neither are Rock View or Oakland Terrace.)

Double huh to the "really insufferable" comment. I have found that the area is fully of really pleasant, wonderful, down to earth people. yes, lots of folks have a pool membership but that's not exactly rolling in the dough.

DP, but I have seen firsthand how many of these "really pleasant, wonderful, down to earth people" react when I say my kids go to a local public that's not KP. Pursed lips, looks of disgust, eye rolls, etc. It's gross behavior from people who seem to pride themselves on being "down to earth" and yet would never deign to send their kids to a school with significant SES diversity. They're pleasant to *each other*. Not to everyone and definitely not to many of us who made different choices for our kids' education.

[Anonymous]

There is some intense jealousy, lots of insecurity and bitterness from the folks who live on the Einstein side of Kensington. If they believed that school performance doesn't matter they would have saved another 100K or even 200K and moved into PG county. They're in the middle now talking out of both sides of their mouths. If they could have afforded the WJ and BCC side of Kensington they would be there in a heartbeat. Instead they pretend it doesn't matter while they are the first to then take shots at PG.

These are the insufferable people and biggest hypocrites in the area. They actually come off as racist as they talk about diversity. You'll hear things like oh I love the diversity but there is enough tracking in high school so your child is with similar (aka UMC white) peers or don't worry UMC white kids do fine anywhere (lovely and always assumes whomever you are speaking with is UMC and 100% white) or oh gee the school is getting better because they saw another white family move in. I mean seriously it is intensely disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

Huh? Kensington-Parkwood is not overcrowded. (Neither are Rock View or Oakland Terrace.)

Double huh to the "really insufferable" comment. I have found that the area is fully of really pleasant, wonderful, down to earth people. yes, lots of folks have a pool membership but that's not exactly rolling in the dough.

DP, but I have seen firsthand how many of these "really pleasant, wonderful, down to earth people" react when I say my kids go to a local public that's not KP. Pursed lips, looks of disgust, eye rolls, etc. It's gross behavior from people who seem to pride themselves on being "down to earth" and yet would never deign to send their kids to a school with significant SES diversity. They're pleasant to *each other*. Not to everyone and definitely not to many of us who made different choices for our kids' education.

This is my experience with Parkwood and ToK families. I run into them frequently at the park and pool and they absolutely look down upon those who do not live in the town or Parkwood. I have one friend who moved from Town to Kensington Heights because she sends kids to independent schools and decided not to continue paying the WJ premium for schools she's not been using for 8 years and the comments she gets are out of this world.

They are nice to their other neighbors in Parkwood/ToK and if you are the undesirables who live in Kensington Heights or North Kensington, what they say behind your back is "They don't really live IN Kensington, they may as well be in Wheaton." Which is doubly rude because they are also putting down another community with some very nice (but browner) residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is some intense jealousy, lots of insecurity and bitterness from the folks who live on the Einstein side of Kensington. If they believed that school performance doesn't matter they would have saved another 100K or even 200K and moved into PG county. They're in the middle now talking out of both sides of their mouths. If they could have afforded the WJ and BCC side of Kensington they would be there in a heartbeat. Instead they pretend it doesn't matter while they are the first to then take shots at PG.

These are the insufferable people and biggest hypocrites in the area. They actually come off as racist as they talk about diversity. You'll hear things like oh I love the diversity but there is enough tracking in high school so your child is with similar (aka UMC white) peers or don't worry UMC white kids do fine anywhere (lovely and always assumes whomever you are speaking with is UMC and 100% white) or oh gee the school is getting better because they saw another white family move in. I mean seriously it is intensely disgusting.

I was wondering when you'd show up.

Why you think academic peers translates to UMC and White is beyond me.

Oh, right, you're racist and classist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is some intense jealousy, lots of insecurity and bitterness from the folks who live on the Einstein side of Kensington. If they believed that school performance doesn't matter they would have saved another 100K or even 200K and moved into PG county. They're in the middle now talking out of both sides of their mouths. If they could have afforded the WJ and BCC side of Kensington they would be there in a heartbeat. Instead they pretend it doesn't matter while they are the first to then take shots at PG.

These are the insufferable people and biggest hypocrites in the area. They actually come off as racist as they talk about diversity. You'll hear things like oh I love the diversity but there is enough tracking in high school so your child is with similar (aka UMC white) peers or don't worry UMC white kids do fine anywhere (lovely and always assumes whomever you are speaking with is UMC and 100% white) or oh gee the school is getting better because they saw another white family move in. I mean seriously it is intensely disgusting.

It is not jealousy or bitterness. If I had tons more money, believe me, Parkwood or ToK is NOT where I would be as a first choice in this region. People on that side of Kensington are snootier about living there. The people on the Einstein side are sick of being looked down upon as second class citizens. Additionally, they are not wrong about how UMC white children at Rock View, Oakland Terrace and Einstein have similar test scores and outcomes to UMC white children at Parkwood/WJ. That's just truth. I don't see how that is racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
LOL. PP thinks Parkwood is Chevy Chase or Battery Park. Most people in Kensington live in crowded cape cods or ranchers and drive RAV 4s and CRVs. If anything, the area is fiercely middle class and lower middle class in their trappings.

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