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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent, I think it’s crappy for kids to lose their MS friends when going into a HS.  Particularly for girls, it is HARD to make friends at that age.  It takes a lot of girls most of MS to find a group they are comfortable with, and then to split that group in two and send them to two different HS?  (Or worse—have your daughter be the only one in her friend group not going to WJ or WW.). Clearly it’s not terrible on the level of being a refugee is terrible—but it’s not great.  The idea of having to live that agony twice with a teen girl is really, really unappetizing to me as a parent.[/quote]
I totally understand this, but I also look at it this way, it would be really crappy if they said ok, we’re going to send all of Tilden to Woodward and then a feeder from Wheaton and a feeder from Einstein. Not only are they busing those kids from Wheaton and/or Einstein into a school where everyone is unfamiliar, but they are each their own tiny segment of the school population while an entire MS of UMC kids from WJ joined Woodward together. To me that is setting those kids up for a miserable experience. I almost feel like Woodward should be all split matriculations so there isn’t that type of divide set up from the outset.[/quote]

For many years there have been houses zoned for Tilden/WJ literally across the street from houses zoned for Newport Mill/Einstein, and literally across the backyard fence from houses zoned for Loiederman/Wheaton. These are neighbors. The schools serve the same or immediately adjacent neighborhoods. The families already mix together. They shop at the same grocery stores, go to the same gas stations.[/quote]
Using the same gas stations and shopping at the same grocery stores has no bearing on high school social dynamics. If 3/5 of a HS went to MS together and the other 1/5 segments each went to separate MSs that puts them at a pretty clear social disadvantage. Would you want your child to be part of either of those 1/5 of the HSs population? I know I wouldn’t.[/quote]

They could always make Woodward 3/5 Tilden and 2/5 Loiederman and WJ 3/5 North Bethesda and 2/5 Newport Mill...[/quote]

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