Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.

art and music kids take a lot of AP classes

They do but they take less frequently higher level STEM than kids who are focused on STEM. Kids focused on STEM would have to leave Woodward to get decent options given more than third of school will be FARMS. It will create problem for kids who are left behind.

Isn't MCPS committed to offering AP Bio, Chem, Phys or an IB equivalent in all high schools?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.

STEM at Wheaton - is it a good program? Comparable to Blair? I am so upset they are dividing us in 6 regions.

It's not comparable to Blair at all, but given Art/Drama focus of Woodward it will be a better choice than Woodward for anyone intereded in higher level STEM. I suspect even WJ will have better STEM courses given very lkow FARMS so that would a choice as well.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.

art and music kids take a lot of AP classes

They do but they take less frequently higher level STEM than kids who are focused on STEM. Kids focused on STEM would have to leave Woodward to get decent options given more than third of school will be FARMS. It will create problem for kids who are left behind.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.

STEM at Wheaton - is it a good program? Comparable to Blair? I am so upset they are dividing us in 6 regions.

It's very popular in the DCC. We are zoned for Einstein and I'm sad my kid won't have access to it.

Anonymous wrote:Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.

STEM at Wheaton - is it a good program? Comparable to Blair? I am so upset they are dividing us in 6 regions.

Anonymous wrote:Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.

art and music kids take a lot of AP classes

Anonymous wrote:where can I find it?

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DQSMNE51A25D

Holy crap , just saw it.

where can I find it?

Can someone link to what he recommended?

Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.

It's an extremely poor outcome for Tilden/Luxmanor families.

A high FARMS ES should have been assigned to WJ and Woodward each. Here 2 high FARMS ES are assigned to Woodward and none to WJ.

Concentrating poverty in one HS intentionally when both are less than mile from each other is just poorly thought out idea. No need to create Whitman 2.0 at expense of Woodward.

I think it's mostly reasonable, but one thing that doesn't make sense is having Northwood at 77% utilization. The catchment enrollment numbers actually go down from what they are now.

Meanwhile it's titled "Superintendent’s Recommendation (Modified Option B) for the Reopening of Charles W. Woodward High School and Expansion of Northwood High School."

Starting a new thread for specific reactions to Taylor's recommendation on the Woodward boundary changes as the one from last year was getting unwieldy.