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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This foolish person thinks the real world is fair. Lol

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to bring in some history, years ago WJ families were asked by MCPS survey whether they would like to stay together and build huge addition on WJ or reopen Woodward to accommodate the growing number of students, while likely taking in some DCC schools.

Overwhelmingly, WJ parents voted to reopen Woodward.  WJ parents and students went to County Council meetings all decked out in Green to show support for funding for Woodward.  We’ve filled out I don’t know how many surveys about Woodward.

Now it looks like MCPS may renege on that and send WJ families from Farmland, Garrett Park and KP to other parts of the county. That’s half of WJ.

No good deed shall go unpunished. Bait and switch.[/quote]

Wow, this is just...wow. The entitlement in this post is staggering. WJ families are not entitled to anything more than other MCPS families. Wow.[/quote]

What you may view as "entitlement", others may view as "advocacy" for their children and community. [/quote]

Kids don't deserve extra advantages based on how skilled their parents are at advocacy.  (And honestly they generally already get advantages based on their parents' advocacy at an individual level... they definitely don't deserve the double benefit of getting better school assignments due to their parents' better advocacy.  Triple benefit, honestly, because likely these families have a lot of other socioeconomic advantages over other kids to start with...)[/quote][/quote]

I think you are missing the point. When asked, WJ families overwhelmingly voted in surveys and advocated for reopening Woodward and expanding the boundary of Woodward to include DCC students versus just building WJ big enough to actually house the current WJ student body.

They advocated for Woodward as a solution to overcrowding in WJ and DCC, along with expansion of Northwood.

WJ PTAs testified for this at the BOE. Most other high school cluster PTAs also advocate for things that they want. It really is ok. And it is ok to have feelings when things don’t work out the way you want[/quote]

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