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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I would agree with you, but I know how effective WJ cluster is - The WJ PTA cluster operates with corporate discipline. It's impressive.  Westside parents are tired of having their magnet students on the bus to Blair every day. So this academic program analysis is very focused on travel time for students, to dovetail with this westside community point of view. [/quote]

They are welcome to advocate but pretending they are specifically deserving of short bus rides over other families is disgusting[/quote]

These WJ families would have the longest bus rides.  I think you are missing the point here.
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DP. I am certainly missing what the PP meant by "MCPS may renege on that." What exactly did they think they had been promised, and by whom? I can see why they would have [i]preferred[/i] their outcomes be limited to either staying at WJ or being rezoned to Woodward, but clearly those were not the only possibilities here.

Having said that, I don't think the dreaded Option 3 will come to pass when all of this shakes out. [/quote]

Nothing promised but certainly implied by those early surveys and discussions.[/quote]

Otherwise the WJ families surely would have voted to stay and expand the current building.[/quote]

So, they wanted to relieve the overcrowding by getting a new school… but only if the new school was full of the right kind of people.

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No it was understood that it would be for WJ plus others. Not to get sent across county.  WJ kids don’t usually get into the Blair magnet.  That is the rare unicorn.[/quote]

So your concern is with option 3, which would send a portion of the WJ feeders elsewhere, and which almost definitely won’t happen.[/quote]

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