Anonymous
02/06/2026 08:49
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by different?Anonymous wrote: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.
Wealth. A lot less of it.
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.
That is actually false.
Is it? We have a Whitman 2.0 supporter here.
No, I share concerns. I just think facts matter and there are multifamily homes from GP zoned to WJ in the proposal.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 08:43
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by different?Anonymous wrote: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.
Wealth. A lot less of it.
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.
That is actually false.
Is it? We have a Whitman 2.0 supporter here.
Idk maybe Whitman 2.0 is better for the county. I for one will miss the current mix at WJ. It’s a special place today.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 08:42
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by different?Anonymous wrote: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.
Wealth. A lot less of it.
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.
That is actually false.
Is it? We have a Whitman 2.0 supporter here.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 08:41
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by different?Anonymous wrote: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.
Wealth. A lot less of it.
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.
That is actually false.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 08:30
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by different?Anonymous wrote: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.
Wealth. A lot less of it.
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.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 08:24
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by different?Anonymous wrote: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.
Wealth. A lot less of it.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 08:21
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
In a class of 30 students, it is going from 25 non-FARM students to 20 non-FARM students. Not an earth shattering change. No need for hyperbole.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 07:56
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
I have to admit that I find it a little funny that after all these WJ-area parents worked so hard over the last decade to argue against the idea of balancing demographics being an important factor in boundary changes and basically got what they wanted (very little focus on balancing demographics in these boundary maps), they're now freaking out and begging MCPS to balance demographics between Woodward and WJ.
Surprise surprise, it was never about "you shouldn't try to balance demographics in schools" and was always just "our kids shouldn't have to go to schools with anywhere near the county average number of poor kids."
Surprise surprise, it was never about "you shouldn't try to balance demographics in schools" and was always just "our kids shouldn't have to go to schools with anywhere near the county average number of poor kids."
Anonymous
02/06/2026 07:47
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
now I know what white panic looks like
Anonymous
02/06/2026 07:17
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Wheaton engineering and biomed programs are slated to stay, and be joined by the regional SMCS.
And it's not that people are being defensive, it's that there's some whiny parent from WJ in here acting like something uniquely terrible has happened to them and that no one else is really affected by the boundary study because the things that affect other kids somehow don't count.
Well, it is true that Tilden families suddenly find themselves going from 18% to 36% FARMS. It is a major shift. Is there any other school in a similar situation?
Huh? The data table shows Tilden's FARMS rate going from 22.1% to 21.6%.
When poeple say TIlden area, theya re not talking about Tilden MS. They are referring to Woodward compared to WJ.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 07:15
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:
Well, it is true that Tilden families suddenly find themselves going from 18% to 36% FARMS. It is a major shift. Is there any other school in a similar situation?
Anyone is facing doubling the FARMS? I am curious.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 07:13
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That's the problem in attending school focused on Art and high FARMS. It's not likely to offer MVC and Linear Algebra even if kid is ready for it.
This is not a real problem. A vanishingly small number of high school students take multivariable calculus anywhere. If it’s that important to you then take your child to community college.
DP
MVC should be seen here only as an example. There are many reasons to think that Woodward will have poor class offering - high FARMS typically means not much interest in advanced courses, Arts classes will demand resources, lack of teachers since it will be a new school, ...
35% is not "high FARMS," it's lower than the county average.
35% is high. Next county will becpome 50% and you will say it;s not high. Anything higher than 20% starts impacting school and in Woodward, it will have issues anyway die to opening new.
It's much higher than earlier WJ
It's much much higher than future WJ
MCPS is trying to ceoncentrate poverty intentioanlly in one school when WJ and Woodward is less than one mile on the same road.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 07:12
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This new plan has current 8th graders needing to switch schools in 10th. Taylor previously said they could stay where they start. Why did we go through this whole DCC process for all these kids if they have to shuffle schools in two years?!
Kids currently in consortia and regional/countywide programs (and next year's class of 9th graders) can stay. The thing about switching in 10th is for everyone else.
When was this ever put in writing or eve said aloud during yesterday’s meeting? I’ve only ever heard MCPS say in BOE meetings that students in “regional magnet programs” can finish them. So Eastern, TPMS, RMIB and Blair
It's in writing here:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sYH8G9mVKZI0Bkm_-ZXoSszwRGnrsemE_ksF7DZR4fs/mobilebasic#kix.ze3sp7c1drio
Anonymous
02/06/2026 07:04
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Now let’s walk through what Woodward will look like in 2027, 2028, and 2029.
2027: full grade 9 class; 10th graders only from Farmland, Luxmanor and portions of KP and Garrett Park because PPs say consortia 10th graders won’t have to move. No 11th or 12th graders?!?
2028: full 9th and 10th grade classes; 11th graders only from Farmland, Luxmanor, portions of KP/GP
2029: full classes of 9/10/11th graders and a tiny senior class.
This seems wasteful and if I had a current 9th grader from those ES outside the DCC I would be pissed. Less teachers for my kid’s grade means less course offerings, crappy varsity teams, etc. I really doubt Taylor will let DCC kids stay where they are.
2027: full grade 9 class; 10th graders only from Farmland, Luxmanor and portions of KP and Garrett Park because PPs say consortia 10th graders won’t have to move. No 11th or 12th graders?!?
2028: full 9th and 10th grade classes; 11th graders only from Farmland, Luxmanor, portions of KP/GP
2029: full classes of 9/10/11th graders and a tiny senior class.
This seems wasteful and if I had a current 9th grader from those ES outside the DCC I would be pissed. Less teachers for my kid’s grade means less course offerings, crappy varsity teams, etc. I really doubt Taylor will let DCC kids stay where they are.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 06:55
Subject: Taylor's Feb. Rec for Woodward Boundary Study
Anonymous wrote:Help me understand the enrollment projections for Loiederman in this version. It shows a drop from 989 to the 600’s. Who is getting moved and to where?
These bullet points are in the recommendation for the Wheaton cluster:
● Students assigned to Sargent Shriver Elementary School will be reassigned to Parkland Middle School and Wheaton High School north of Weller Road and west of Barbara Road, including residences along Barbara Road
● Students assigned to Georgian Forest Elementary School will be reassigned to Odessa Shannon Middle School and Wheaton High School (please note, students assigned to Georgian Forest Elementary School island assignment #3 will continue to articulate to Argyle Middle School and John F. Kennedy High School)
● Students assigned to Harmony Hills Elementary School will be reassigned to Wheaton High School (please note, students assigned to Harmony Hills Elementary School island assignment #1 will be reassigned to Argyle Middle School and continue to articulate to John F. Kennedy High School)