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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][quote=Anonymous]The issue is the demographics of the new WJ. Do the math.

It’s another Whitman (less diverse and richer than current WJ) while Woodward is just a mile away and will be a very different school.[/quote]What do you mean by different?[/quote]

Wealth. A lot less of it.[/quote]

Don’t turn on the new Woodward families when MCPS divided the schools and even the WJ cluster in an unexpected way. The way they split KP and GP puts all the single family homes in WJ rather than Woodward. [/quote]

That is actually false.[/quote]

Is it? We have a Whitman 2.0 supporter here.[/quote]

No, I share concerns. I just think facts matter and there are multifamily homes from GP zoned to WJ in the proposal.[/quote]

But all single family homes from KP and GP are zoned WJ.[/quote]

Yeah, but those islands they rezoned are in the walk zone to Woodward, without walking on OGR and crossing the beltway to WJ, and a large proportion of those neighbors requested Woodward for that reason. WJ has a lot of multifamily dwellings from the Ashburton zone.[/quote]

That's a good decision to get rid of those island. Bad decision is to add two DCC ES in Woodward instead of adding in WJ and Woodward each. It's very low hanging fruit for BOE members.[/quote]

I understand the arguments re poverty concentration. I wonder if there are  credible reasons for this recomendation that make this less low hanging fruit.

Maybe it is better to combine 2 current WJ ES and 2 current DCC ES into a new high school rather than 3:1? Wouldn't that result in more cohesion in the new school? Less likely for anyone to be othered or ignored? Less likely for the former WJ ES communities to dominate?

I know I will be dismissed as wanting Whitman 2.0 or whatever but genuinely asking.

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There is documented proof that students( FARMS and non-FARMS) benefit most when they attend school below or around 20% FARMS. Concentrating poverty in one HS while creating second Whitman is net negative for our county.

I don't have document link handy but it has been shared here in past. There is no benefit to have 2:2 instead of 3:1. Many times, its not possible to do this due to how demography is distributed in our county, but when two schools are literally right next to each other it makes no sense to concentrate poverty in one and have Whitman 2.0 in another.[/quote]

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