Woodward will be on par with the schools its directly adjacent to namely WJ, Einstein and BCC.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

Yes, it has, notwithstanding your personal opinion about North Bethesda. Why does the existence of North Bethesda, as a place, bother you so much?

Anonymous wrote:It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

No, it hasn't. I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s; some people tried hard for the "North Bethesda" thing, but it was squarely Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It has a Rockville address.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs

All that means is that USPS mail is delivered by carriers who are based out of the post office on Rollins Ave, which actually is in Rockville, just barely.

OK? How is this relevant to the conversation?

It's relevant if you're using the USPS zip code as the basis for declaring that Woodward is in Rockville.

Please don't make us get into another Rockville/North Bethesda debate here.

Agreed. We can avoid this debate if people don't post that Woodward is in Rockville.

Don't people call Rockville North Bethesda these days?

No, people still call Rockville Rockville. And people call North Bethesda North Bethesda.

Incorrect, North Bethesda used to be called Rockville. They just try to pretend it's fancier now. It would be like calling Woodside East Chevy Chase.

Rockville used to be called Hungerford's Tavern. Times change. It's been North Bethesda for at least 50 years now. How old are you?

No... this was a move entirely driven by realtors, but it is a lot more recent than that.

Per Wikipedia, which is definitive here: "The existence of North Bethesda as an actual place with distinct boundaries has been mistakenly questioned by local residents and online commenters.[7] Skeptics frequently dismiss the census-designated place as just a southern portion of Rockville rather than a defined place[8] and the name as a neologism coined by realtors.[9]"

7: https://moco360.media/2016/09/28/since-you-asked-where-exactly-is-north-bethesda/
8: https://moco360.media/2014/01/21/north-bethesda-or-rockville/
9: https://mocoshow.com/blog/north-bethesda-and-north-potomac-you-mean-rockville-and-gaithersburg-html/

Thanks to the MoCo Show article also for answering my question of when North Bethesda became a Census-Designated Place: 1980.

Unfortunately, the Planning Department website doesn't seem to include a link to the 1970 North Bethesda-Garrett Park master plan, just the 1992 North Bethesda Garrett Park master plan that updated the 1970 plan.

Also, while we're at it: the current address of the "church that named Bethesda" is 9400 Rockville Pike: https://moco360.media/2023/06/29/bethesda-meeting-house-deteriorates-falls-apart/

I honestly don't understand why the existence of North Bethesda as a place, which is not Bethesda or Rockville (aka Hungerford's Tavern), seems to upset some people so much.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It has a Rockville address.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs

All that means is that USPS mail is delivered by carriers who are based out of the post office on Rollins Ave, which actually is in Rockville, just barely.

OK? How is this relevant to the conversation?

It's relevant if you're using the USPS zip code as the basis for declaring that Woodward is in Rockville.

Please don't make us get into another Rockville/North Bethesda debate here.

Agreed. We can avoid this debate if people don't post that Woodward is in Rockville.

Don't people call Rockville North Bethesda these days?

No, people still call Rockville Rockville. And people call North Bethesda North Bethesda.

Incorrect, North Bethesda used to be called Rockville. They just try to pretend it's fancier now. It would be like calling Woodside East Chevy Chase.

Rockville used to be called Hungerford's Tavern. Times change. It's been North Bethesda for at least 50 years now. How old are you?

No... this was a move entirely driven by realtors, but it is a lot more recent than that.

It may seem that way, but it's not the case.

https://moco360.media/2016/09/28/since-you-asked-where-exactly-is-north-bethesda/

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It has a Rockville address.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs

All that means is that USPS mail is delivered by carriers who are based out of the post office on Rollins Ave, which actually is in Rockville, just barely.

OK? How is this relevant to the conversation?

It's relevant if you're using the USPS zip code as the basis for declaring that Woodward is in Rockville.

Please don't make us get into another Rockville/North Bethesda debate here.

Agreed. We can avoid this debate if people don't post that Woodward is in Rockville.

Don't people call Rockville North Bethesda these days?

No, people still call Rockville Rockville. And people call North Bethesda North Bethesda.

Incorrect, North Bethesda used to be called Rockville. They just try to pretend it's fancier now. It would be like calling Woodside East Chevy Chase.

Rockville used to be called Hungerford's Tavern. Times change. It's been North Bethesda for at least 50 years now. How old are you?

No... this was a move entirely driven by realtors, but it is a lot more recent than that.

It's been "North Bethesda" at least since the 70s, even if y'all want to think otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It’s right off rockville pike is it not? North Bethesda is rockville rebranded by strivers

It's on Old Georgetown Rd.

"North Georgetown"!

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It has a Rockville address.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs

All that means is that USPS mail is delivered by carriers who are based out of the post office on Rollins Ave, which actually is in Rockville, just barely.

OK? How is this relevant to the conversation?

It's relevant if you're using the USPS zip code as the basis for declaring that Woodward is in Rockville.

Please don't make us get into another Rockville/North Bethesda debate here.

Agreed. We can avoid this debate if people don't post that Woodward is in Rockville.

Don't people call Rockville North Bethesda these days?

No, people still call Rockville Rockville. And people call North Bethesda North Bethesda.

Incorrect, North Bethesda used to be called Rockville. They just try to pretend it's fancier now. It would be like calling Woodside East Chevy Chase.

Rockville used to be called Hungerford's Tavern. Times change. It's been North Bethesda for at least 50 years now. How old are you?

Some folks can't let go.

No. We moved here in 2912. The Toys R Us where Pike and Rose now sits had a Rockville address. It’s so fake who, when and why they want to claim North Bethesda over Rockville. Very similar to the Wheaton vs Silver Spring designation in the media. Anything g negative gets labelled as Wheaton despite a SS address and anything positive will get labelled as SS or even N Bethesda!

Was it like this with North Kensington back in the day?

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It’s right off rockville pike is it not? North Bethesda is rockville rebranded by strivers

It's on Old Georgetown Rd.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It’s right off rockville pike is it not? North Bethesda is rockville rebranded by strivers

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It has a Rockville address.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs

All that means is that USPS mail is delivered by carriers who are based out of the post office on Rollins Ave, which actually is in Rockville, just barely.

OK? How is this relevant to the conversation?

It's relevant if you're using the USPS zip code as the basis for declaring that Woodward is in Rockville.

Please don't make us get into another Rockville/North Bethesda debate here.

Agreed. We can avoid this debate if people don't post that Woodward is in Rockville.

Don't people call Rockville North Bethesda these days?

No, people still call Rockville Rockville. And people call North Bethesda North Bethesda.

Incorrect, North Bethesda used to be called Rockville. They just try to pretend it's fancier now. It would be like calling Woodside East Chevy Chase.

Rockville used to be called Hungerford's Tavern. Times change. It's been North Bethesda for at least 50 years now. How old are you?

Some folks can't let go.

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If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It has a Rockville address.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs

All that means is that USPS mail is delivered by carriers who are based out of the post office on Rollins Ave, which actually is in Rockville, just barely.

OK? How is this relevant to the conversation?

It's relevant if you're using the USPS zip code as the basis for declaring that Woodward is in Rockville.

Please don't make us get into another Rockville/North Bethesda debate here.

Agreed. We can avoid this debate if people don't post that Woodward is in Rockville.

Don't people call Rockville North Bethesda these days?

No, people still call Rockville Rockville. And people call North Bethesda North Bethesda.

Incorrect, North Bethesda used to be called Rockville. They just try to pretend it's fancier now. It would be like calling Woodside East Chevy Chase.

Rockville used to be called Hungerford's Tavern. Times change. It's been North Bethesda for at least 50 years now. How old are you?

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If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.

Your crystal ball is broken. The DCC needs help and this is an easy fix. The W’s getting messed with would cost people their jobs. They will take the low hanging fruit and give a rockville school to the DCC.

Woodward is in Rockville? I had no idea. How fascinating. Does the City of Rockville know about this?

It has a Rockville address.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/woodwardhs

All that means is that USPS mail is delivered by carriers who are based out of the post office on Rollins Ave, which actually is in Rockville, just barely.

OK? How is this relevant to the conversation?

It's relevant if you're using the USPS zip code as the basis for declaring that Woodward is in Rockville.

Please don't make us get into another Rockville/North Bethesda debate here.

Agreed. We can avoid this debate if people don't post that Woodward is in Rockville.

Don't people call Rockville North Bethesda these days?

No, people still call Rockville Rockville. And people call North Bethesda North Bethesda.

Incorrect, North Bethesda used to be called Rockville. They just try to pretend it's fancier now. It would be like calling Woodside East Chevy Chase.

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