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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can find lots of info about the new Woodward HS plans here:

[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs.aspx[/url]

But the opening date has recently been pushed back to fall of 2026.[/quote]

So none of the students currently in the school will benefit[/quote]

And the WJ Cluster Coordinators were communicating information about this going back 8-10 years.  They are long gone with kids out of MCPS. Those with younger kids weren't interested/didn't care/were to busy and dropped the ball.

You have to keep constant pressure on MCPS, the BOE, the Planning Board and the County Council.  Kids don't vote, so it is up to the parents.  When they don't keep the pressure on, this is what happens.[/quote]

Literally, cluster representatives, who had been fighting the good fight for years for less crowding in the WJ cluster, got fed up with the process and sent kids to private school.[/quote]

What other options were there besides reopening Woodward? I believe the construction started when it did because the Woodward building was still being used as Tilden MS for several years, so if they had started sooner what would have happened with the MS kids?[/quote]
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Well, they did build on that enormous property over by green acres where the put the new Tilden Ms — that was large enough for a HS.[/b]  I’m one of the r cluster folks that had younger kids (class of 27 and class of 29) honestly, I believed them when they said they had a plan—-I just never imagined it would take so long for them to effectuate it!  All the stupid squabbles about whether it would be an arts program, whether it would have an athletic field, trees, etc. didn’t help…and then everything came to a roaring standstill with the pandemic. Of course all the tear down construction by developers did not stop during the pandemic.  [/quote]

Had they considered building the new HS there, or was there NIMBY resistance to that idea?[/quote]

No, the old Tilden MS had always been slated for a new Tilden MS, but they did a bunch of things with the building until they got off the dime. They used as a holding school for the Hoover MS rebuild and they leased it out to a private school before the dates were on the books to get the Tilden MS kids out of the Woodward building to make that plot into the new Woodward HS.  I'm sure there were seveal other budget delays in there.  MCPS can act quickly when they feel some urgency - The North Bethesda MS addition completed in 2018 is a good example. Northwood HS is in worse shape than WJ, but the decision to put the Northwood students in the rebuilt Woodward as a holding school pushed the project out even further, CIP funding delay notwithstanding.  DD says WJ feels a lot more crowded this year than last, so maybe they'll blow by the 550 over capacity when the real numbers come in.  [/quote]

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