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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]/ [b]Overwhelming [/b] majority of kids in Woodward are going to come from WJ[b], with a smattering from[/b] DCC / [/quote]

Fixed it for ya.[/quote]

That wouldn't make sense. Woodward's capacity will be 2150. WJ will be overcapacity by 800, Wheaton by 400, and Einstein by 500. [/quote]

Look at current overcapacities and projections.  Notice how DCC schools are rather overrepresented at the top and that W schools tend to be just under?  And that the one W with a capacity problem is, poof, getting relief a half mile away?  When borders could have been shifted to some currently undercapacity?  [b]When a new high school in the eastern part of the county inside the beltway[/b] that would more directly address the bulk of the need was eschewed for that new W school and a not-so-great expansion of a run-down Northwood that will still leave overcrowding in the DCC where the county has shoved higher density rezonings?

Think that is happenstance?

Just because it makes sense doesn't mean DCC will see relief.[/quote]

Which site are you referring to? It seems to me that MCPS opted to reopen Woodward because it was a high-school sized plot of land that they already owned, and it had several overcrowded schools reasonably nearby.

By the way, Northwood's run-down building will be razed and replaced with a brand new one. But I agree it will not be enough space to relieve Blair's overcrowding.[/quote]

They had several candidate sites, both on and off the record.  None were overwhelmingly appealing, but nobody was willing to kill sacred cows to think outside the box.  Two that got publicized with all their deficiencies were the Washington Adventist property and the Discovery Communications building (not the main building, but, yes, a truly urban campus without fields, etc.).  That made them easy straw men, and they could then point to Woodward & Northwood as being far easier & cheaper.

But not more effective for lower-SES eastern down county.  Not providing reasonably similar facility service as that seen in other areas from a school system that pays high lip service to equity.  There's no reason we should expect that to change, either the rhetoric or the on-the-ground differential.[/quote]

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