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Anonymous wrote:Allowing students to switch schools within regions for various programs (if seats are actually available) will also change the FARmS rates.

I would support a lottery into underenrolled schools for FARMS kids. The question is busing, but apparently there are already 75 bus rides for DCC kids so maybe that is not really an issue.

This is only for kids who are enrolled outside their home school, which means it is their choice. I'm not saying it is the right choice, or a good choice, but no kid has a 75 minute bus ride to their home school.

It's a horrible idea for a number of reasons already discussed in this thread.

it is a horrible idea but one that currently exists for choice programs in the DCC. I guess for kids/families that it makes sense for, that's what they are choosing to do.

I wouldn't want to force anyone on a lengthy bus ride.

Anonymous wrote:Whitman is:
1) underenrolled
2) far away
3) has few close-proximity lower-income housing options (which definitely should be changed)
4) has the lowest FARMS rate in the boundary study.

Anonymous wrote:the best option would be to improve everyone's home school and provide resources to all kids at all levels, but that's not what is proposed in the boundary study.

Anonymous wrote:Whitman is:
1) underenrolled
2) far away
3) has few close-proximity lower-income housing options (which definitely should be changed)
4) has the lowest FARMS rate in the boundary study.

Anonymous wrote:Tiden + DCC at Woodward
NB + DCC at WJ

* Viers Mills should be at Woodward or WJ. They were sent off by themselves to Wheaton when Woodward closed down.

This makes sense, is completely supported by the entire WJ community, and has been suggested many, many times to mcps.

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Anonymous wrote:WJ won out big in the options. They roped in essentially zero folks from the DCC into their boundary. Only Woodward took on DCC folks when they're essentially equidistant.

WJ still even has areas from Kensington Parkwood elementary and beyond Connecticut Ave that traditionally should be Einstein based on proximity, but haven't been for decades and get to maintain that status.

WJ is W Yay.

Farmland, Luxmanor and Garrett Park are the biggest losers.

For biggest losers, don't forget Chevy Chase in option 3, going from walking to high school to taking a 6-mile or longer bus ride. Some Chevy Chase houses are literally 500 ft from BCC (truly across the street) and would be bussed to Blair instead.

Yawn. Option 3 only happens bc of zealously Rabid progressives. Cry me a river Chevy Chase, how did you fair in 1, 2 and 4 which are the most likely closer to scenarios. Nobody cares about Chevy Chase rich kids. Go private

We’d just move.

But I’d advocate for more equitable demographics between WJ and Woodward. It’s baffling why they are making them so different.

Progressives with an agenda made them different. Or idiots at Flo. Or bc sanctuary state

Anonymous wrote:You all should realize that Viers Mills, Farmlamd, Garrett Park, and Luxmanor originally went to Woodward High School before MCPS shut it down due to underenrollment. I think this was back in the 80s maybe early 90s. Viers Mills were sent to Wheaton and the rest to WJ.

Apparently, there were huge protests at the time, everyone was very upset, and it was a terrible thing to lose the neighborhood high school.

Many of those families are still around and the kids now live in those houses, raising their own families as real estate is so expensive!

So try to understand and be compassionate when you hear Tilden families wanting to stay together back at the neighborhood school and get that up and running with our friends from the DCC. They never wanted to get sent away in the first place. To not return them to Woodward is just wrong.

One of the factors is Stability - I think that should weigh on favor of options keeping Tilden plus DCC at Woodward.

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Anonymous wrote:WJ won out big in the options. They roped in essentially zero folks from the DCC into their boundary. Only Woodward took on DCC folks when they're essentially equidistant.

WJ still even has areas from Kensington Parkwood elementary and beyond Connecticut Ave that traditionally should be Einstein based on proximity, but haven't been for decades and get to maintain that status.

WJ is W Yay.

Farmland, Luxmanor and Garrett Park are the biggest losers.

For biggest losers, don't forget Chevy Chase in option 3, going from walking to high school to taking a 6-mile or longer bus ride. Some Chevy Chase houses are literally 500 ft from BCC (truly across the street) and would be bussed to Blair instead.

Yawn. Option 3 only happens bc of zealously Rabid progressives. Cry me a river Chevy Chase, how did you fair in 1, 2 and 4 which are the most likely closer to scenarios. Nobody cares about Chevy Chase rich kids. Go private

We’d just move.

But I’d advocate for more equitable demographics between WJ and Woodward. It’s baffling why they are making them so different.

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Anonymous wrote:Allowing students to switch schools within regions for various programs (if seats are actually available) will also change the FARmS rates.

I would support a lottery into underenrolled schools for FARMS kids. The question is busing, but apparently there are already 75 bus rides for DCC kids so maybe that is not really an issue.

This is only for kids who are enrolled outside their home school, which means it is their choice. I'm not saying it is the right choice, or a good choice, but no kid has a 75 minute bus ride to their home school.

It's a horrible idea for a number of reasons already discussed in this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Allowing students to switch schools within regions for various programs (if seats are actually available) will also change the FARmS rates.

I would support a lottery into underenrolled schools for FARMS kids. The question is busing, but apparently there are already 75 bus rides for DCC kids so maybe that is not really an issue.

This is only for kids who are enrolled outside their home school, which means it is their choice. I'm not saying it is the right choice, or a good choice, but no kid has a 75 minute bus ride to their home school.

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Anonymous wrote:Allowing students to switch schools within regions for various programs (if seats are actually available) will also change the FARmS rates.

I would support a lottery into underenrolled schools for FARMS kids. The question is busing, but apparently there are already 75 bus rides for DCC kids so maybe that is not really an issue.