Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 16:45     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.


They need to tear down Einstein and expand it.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 16:45     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


They might have worked that if they had built a new HS inside the beltway in the SS/TKPK area. But they eschewed that in favor of Woodward, promising that that would help ease DCC overcrowding, and then have been walking that help for the DCC back bit by bit ever since.

Unless they move DCC feeder ES's to pyramids to the west in cascading fashion or add the BCC pyramid (and maybe one or more of the Woodward/Whitman/WJ pyramids) to some modified consortium construct, the overcrowding of DCC schools will continue.


I think that's exactly what they will do.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 16:45     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.


Einstein's overcrowding will be eased by the opening of Woodward and the expansion of Northwood, which will ease pressure on the DCC.


Northwood is not enough.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 16:44     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


How would that work when Einstein is overcrowded and already have portables. In some classes the kids don’t have desks or chairs.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 16:42     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


They might have worked that if they had built a new HS inside the beltway in the SS/TKPK area. But they eschewed that in favor of Woodward, promising that that would help ease DCC overcrowding, and then have been walking that help for the DCC back bit by bit ever since.

Unless they move DCC feeder ES's to pyramids to the west in cascading fashion or add the BCC pyramid (and maybe one or more of the Woodward/Whitman/WJ pyramids) to some modified consortium construct, the overcrowding of DCC schools will continue.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 12:32     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.


Einstein's overcrowding will be eased by the opening of Woodward and the expansion of Northwood, which will ease pressure on the DCC.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 12:31     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


With the addition of Crown and Woodward, I think Kensington and Bethesda schools and neighborhoods will have plenty of space to move kids around without unreasonable busing as a solution.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 12:30     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.


I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 09:20     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2024 08:49     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:Anyone? What happens next?


There are public hearings next week, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2024 22:56     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anyone? What happens next?
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 17:25     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Comments. Stop wasting education money with these studies and just make a decision.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 16:39     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Anonymous wrote:Boundary Study Update
The Request for Proposals (RFP) process for the Charles W. Woodward High School and Crown High School boundary studies has been extended. We will keep you updated throughout the process.

Any comments?


What is your question? They extended the due date of the RFP to October 31.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/procurement/uploads/4998.1/RFP%204998.1%20Erratum%204.pdf
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 15:53     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Update me
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 14:58     Subject: Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

Boundary Study Update
The Request for Proposals (RFP) process for the Charles W. Woodward High School and Crown High School boundary studies has been extended. We will keep you updated throughout the process.

Any comments?