Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or “I really don’t want to move to Bethesda - pls give me reason to stay”

Have you gotten one?

Not everyone can afford Bethesda.

Some can, but not everyone holds up Bethesda as some aspirational end goal.

We lived close to Bethesda (zoned for a “W” school) before buying in DC. Most of our activities, child care, and one of our jobs was in Bethesda. It was fine, but much prefer DC.

Are you one of the people who moved to a neighborhood you knew had sub-par IB schools, and not are complaining that DC needs to dramatically increase, or at least preserve, its OOB slots?

Anonymous wrote:I lose with a new Western High. It’s a waste of my money. Arguments that it isn’t redundant have to do with something about the west side of DC being special because of whatever Wilson has that the rest of DC doesn’t.

Of course it seems absurd to build a new HS in DC when there are half a dozen HS below 50% enrollment, all but one of them recently renovated at great cost.

But politically it might be easier than re-drawing the boundaries and DC politicians have access to more cash than courage.

They've done a version of this already with all of the money they've spent expanding all of the ES and Deal (twice!) that are west of the park - if they tightened up on OOB enrollments and re-drew the boundaries they could have saved a lot of money.

Einstein >>>>>> Cardozo, Coolidge and Roosevelt!!

Plus the taxes are lower in Wheaton and wouldn't be pawns in some sick game between rich people in Palisades and Crestwood.

But the rest of DC wants it and are looking for it at Wilson. Give it to them someplace else + make them go someplace else. Or build Western HS. Wilson is only so big.

I lose with a new Western High. It’s a waste of my money. Arguments that it isn’t redundant have to do with something about the west side of DC being special because of whatever Wilson has that the rest of DC doesn’t.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or “I really don’t want to move to Bethesda - pls give me reason to stay”

Have you gotten one?

Here's one: the class sizes are no smaller in Bethesda.

This is true. Having said that the Bethesda area has a number of well regarded public schools at all 3 levels and hence a lot more political flexibility to tweak boundaries depending on demand. Sure there will be similar levels of teeth gnashing since it involves people from Bethesda but at the end of the day you are essentially moving kids between long established and successful schools while in DC at some point you are likely forcing some cohort or another to be pioneers of sorts when they get moved.

Lol, go on the Maryland schools forum here and tell that to families who will be moved from BCC to Einstein.

There's always Rockville. Have you seen that Town Center?! It's got everything!

For example Pyle is larger thank deal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or “I really don’t want to move to Bethesda - pls give me reason to stay”

Have you gotten one?

Not everyone can afford Bethesda.

Some can, but not everyone holds up Bethesda as some aspirational end goal.

We lived close to Bethesda (zoned for a “W” school) before buying in DC. Most of our activities, child care, and one of our jobs was in Bethesda. It was fine, but much prefer DC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or “I really don’t want to move to Bethesda - pls give me reason to stay”

Have you gotten one?

Here's one: the class sizes are no smaller in Bethesda.

This is true. Having said that the Bethesda area has a number of well regarded public schools at all 3 levels and hence a lot more political flexibility to tweak boundaries depending on demand. Sure there will be similar levels of teeth gnashing since it involves people from Bethesda but at the end of the day you are essentially moving kids between long established and successful schools while in DC at some point you are likely forcing some cohort or another to be pioneers of sorts when they get moved.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or “I really don’t want to move to Bethesda - pls give me reason to stay”

Have you gotten one?

Here's one: the class sizes are no smaller in Bethesda.

Anonymous wrote:Or “I really don’t want to move to Bethesda - pls give me reason to stay”

Have you gotten one?

Or “I really don’t want to move to Bethesda - pls give me reason to stay”

14 pages in, and this thread could be retitled, "Why I moved to Bethesda"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get this. Wilson feeder system is overcrowded so it can’t be changed?

No one is saying it can't be changed. However, no one can agree on how to resolve the issue - i.e., who wins and who loses.

This is always the point of contention in these voluminous threads.

That's what I don't get. Nobody loses with a reborn Western High (location TBD). Every other suggestion seems to be contingent on people losing.

A new MS is needed EOTP AND a new HS is needed WOTP. Both of these things used to be there but were taken away a generation or two ago.

Nobody loses....except the taxpayers who have to foot a $100 million+ bill and who lose out on whatever tax revenue the site otherwise could have supported.

Here's an idea....let's rename Roosevelt HS "Western High" and route Oyster and Bancroft there. And we can call New North and Coolidge "Deal 2" and "Wilson 2" and send Shepherd and Lafayette there. Nobody loses!

Better yet, let's just get rid of public schools altogether. Amirite!

That's a lot of hate for first thing in the morning. Your "plan" will destroy the tax base and lead to the imposition of a city wide lottery for all schools. We'd be back in the 90's. Good job.

Once we do that, let's rename one of the failing secondary schools as "Marion Barry High," which will be a fitting tribute.