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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today at the BOE meeting, the central office stood behind the Superintendent’s recommendation.

However…to respond to some comments, they propose an alternative to the BOE that would cut Viers Mill Elementary in two for split articulation. The half in the walk zone to Wheaton would go to Wheaton. The other half would go to WJ. This is instead of all of VMES going to Woodward.

Thoughts?[/quote]

Horrible. In 2 years they will cry that Wheaton is overcrowded and how horrible it is for taxpayers not to fund an expansion of Edison "for equity". When they should have just done the boundary study correctly without inflating Wheaton HS capacity with seats that don't exist.[/quote]

+1 the utilization presentation made it clear that it is Wheaton that needs alleviation, not Woodward. So this will make Woodward 76% utilized and Wheaton 93%. This is not parity and equity. [/quote]

And Woodward shouldn’t have 9% less utilization than WJ. That’s greater wear and tear on the older facility. But more importantly, demand for WJ magnet will be greater than Woodward magnet creating capacity issue at WJ. This is fiscally irresponsible to build a new school and not use it.[/quote]

Yeah, every effort should be made to keep WJ as empty as possible.

First, it is amazing that the proposed compromise doesn't touch WJ even though it is at 77% utilization.

This story about magnet demand defeats the purpose of the whole magnet model. So you are saying that magnets will be so unbalanced that we have to plan utilization numbers accordingly. Then don't even bother with magnets that are predicted not to attract students.

WJ is at 77% and there is still worry that it will be a lot of wear and tear there. Then how about another compromise - we move the humanities magnet to Woodward and send art magnet to WJ so they are not too stressed with too many students. 
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