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Anonymous wrote:BOE just added criteria-based theater back to Northwood. No STEM criteria-based added back. So half victory?

Crazy the flip flop.

MCPS isn't thinking this out at all. Its crazy that there is no stem between Einstein and Northwood and those kids are going to miss out like they currently do.

Please stop posting this misinformation. They may not have as many STEM classes as other schools, but it's just false to stay there is no STEM.

Please share with us how much stem is there.

There is up to calc bc, two engineering classes taught at the same time and two computer science. There are no AP science classes. It is bare bones. Compare it to other schools.

This actually isn’t true. Northwood has AP Chemistry, Biology, and Environmental Science (maybe more). That said, there should be a criteria-based STEM program there, not just performing arts.

+ AP Physics

Northwood only offers 1 section of AP Physics 1 and no sections of AP Physics C. Northwood didn’t offer AP Chem the previous 2 years. This year they have one section of AP Chem. In contrast the W schools offer multiple periods of AP Physics 1, AP Physics C (Mechanics), AP Physics C (E&M) and AP Chem. Way more options at these schools. Also, when only one section of a class is offered, it means many students who want to take it are not able to either because it conflicts with another class at the same time or the class fills up.

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Anonymous wrote:The Northwood PTSA is testifying on Thursday, 10/30. Please 1) show up, and 2) request a Northwood T-shirt ahead of time to show your support. This is important! It’s a once in a decade chance to shape our brand new school for current and future families.

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I am confirmed to give public comments to the Board of Education at this Thursday's meeting. It would be great for the BoE to see Northwood supporters in the audience.

If you are available (you should arrive by 4pm), please let us know if you need a Northwood shirt. We can make arrangements to deliver one before Thursday afternoon.

All parents, guardians, staff, current and future students, and community members are welcome. Let's show them some Gladiator Pride!

MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
15 West Gude Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20850

Nice work Northwood Community!

People sleep on the Northwood community but we will step up loud when we have to. We are not the boy who cried wolf. There’s an actual wolf when we cry.

Anonymous wrote:The Northwood PTSA is testifying on Thursday, 10/30. Please 1) show up, and 2) request a Northwood T-shirt ahead of time to show your support. This is important! It’s a once in a decade chance to shape our brand new school for current and future families.

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I am confirmed to give public comments to the Board of Education at this Thursday's meeting. It would be great for the BoE to see Northwood supporters in the audience.

If you are available (you should arrive by 4pm), please let us know if you need a Northwood shirt. We can make arrangements to deliver one before Thursday afternoon.

All parents, guardians, staff, current and future students, and community members are welcome. Let's show them some Gladiator Pride!

MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
15 West Gude Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20850

Nice work Northwood Community!

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Anonymous wrote:Northwood should have the criteria-based performing arts program reinstated ASAP for starters.

But why? I have a child who wants to join the Law Academy at Northwood. When my oldest attended Northwood, the arts program wasn’t that prominent. I fully support Einstein having the Performing Arts Magnet — that’s what the school is known for. However, the real issue is that the county seems unwilling to give Northwood the Humanities program because they don’t view our students as thinkers, future lawmakers, or leaders. A Humanities program could benefit Northwood tremendously, but instead, they’re giving both of our academy programs to the “W” schools.

there's only one "w" school in the region....

Oh come on, you know what she means. Lots of people consider BCC an honorary W school.

B-CC, with a 25% FARMS rate and less than 50% white, is very different from Whitman. It’s convenient for people on this board to lump them together to say “the W schools” are getting everything in an us vs. them way, but it’s not that simple.

To those of us in schools that are 60%+ FARMS, that makes BCC the same as any W school. And you not realizing that is part of the problem.

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There are 25 high schools in MCPS and 18 of them have higher FARMS rates than BCC. 39% is average. 25% is quite low.

Glad to see this, PP.

The Northwood PTSA is testifying on Thursday, 10/30. Please 1) show up, and 2) request a Northwood T-shirt ahead of time to show your support. This is important! It’s a once in a decade chance to shape our brand new school for current and future families.

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I am confirmed to give public comments to the Board of Education at this Thursday's meeting. It would be great for the BoE to see Northwood supporters in the audience.

If you are available (you should arrive by 4pm), please let us know if you need a Northwood shirt. We can make arrangements to deliver one before Thursday afternoon.

All parents, guardians, staff, current and future students, and community members are welcome. Let's show them some Gladiator Pride!

MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
15 West Gude Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20850

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Anonymous wrote:Northwood should have the criteria-based performing arts program reinstated ASAP for starters.

But why? I have a child who wants to join the Law Academy at Northwood. When my oldest attended Northwood, the arts program wasn’t that prominent. I fully support Einstein having the Performing Arts Magnet — that’s what the school is known for. However, the real issue is that the county seems unwilling to give Northwood the Humanities program because they don’t view our students as thinkers, future lawmakers, or leaders. A Humanities program could benefit Northwood tremendously, but instead, they’re giving both of our academy programs to the “W” schools.

there's only one "w" school in the region....

Oh come on, you know what she means. Lots of people consider BCC an honorary W school.

B-CC, with a 25% FARMS rate and less than 50% white, is very different from Whitman. It’s convenient for people on this board to lump them together to say “the W schools” are getting everything in an us vs. them way, but it’s not that simple.

To those of us in schools that are 60%+ FARMS, that makes BCC the same as any W school. And you not realizing that is part of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:BOE just added criteria-based theater back to Northwood. No STEM criteria-based added back. So half victory?

Crazy the flip flop.

MCPS isn't thinking this out at all. Its crazy that there is no stem between Einstein and Northwood and those kids are going to miss out like they currently do.

Please stop posting this misinformation. They may not have as many STEM classes as other schools, but it's just false to stay there is no STEM.

Please share with us how much stem is there.

There is up to calc bc, two engineering classes taught at the same time and two computer science. There are no AP science classes. It is bare bones. Compare it to other schools.

This actually isn’t true. Northwood has AP Chemistry, Biology, and Environmental Science (maybe more). That said, there should be a criteria-based STEM program there, not just performing arts.

Not every school will have a criteria based stem program

Ok, how about every school should have a criteria based ACADEMIC program?

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Anonymous wrote:Northwood should have the criteria-based performing arts program reinstated ASAP for starters.

But why? I have a child who wants to join the Law Academy at Northwood. When my oldest attended Northwood, the arts program wasn’t that prominent. I fully support Einstein having the Performing Arts Magnet — that’s what the school is known for. However, the real issue is that the county seems unwilling to give Northwood the Humanities program because they don’t view our students as thinkers, future lawmakers, or leaders. A Humanities program could benefit Northwood tremendously, but instead, they’re giving both of our academy programs to the “W” schools.

there's only one "w" school in the region....

Oh come on, you know what she means. Lots of people consider BCC an honorary W school.

B-CC, with a 25% FARMS rate and less than 50% white, is very different from Whitman. It’s convenient for people on this board to lump them together to say “the W schools” are getting everything in an us vs. them way, but it’s not that simple.

To those of us in schools that are 60%+ FARMS, that makes BCC the same as any W school. And you not realizing that is part of the problem.

right there are differences but you dismiss the existance and needs of students at these schools when you lump them together and say they are all white and all rich

That's exactly right. The B-CC cluster was affected in the first set of boundary options, but the students who would've been the most impacted are the Black and Latino kids in the apartments on the east side of the cluster who were being sent to middle schools farther away, even if they stayed at B-CC for high school, and in one option were sent to Whitman and in another option to WJ, which are both less accessible by public transportation than B-CC. The west part of the cluster (mostly Westland MS) was left alone in the first options. So, the fact that the new options don't mess with B-CC is a good thing for the lower-income kids at B-CC, whose needs are no less important than those of lower-income kids in the DCC just because their school isn't 60% FARMS.

Now their solution is to bus (or have parents drive kids) from East county for special programs to balance enrollment so nobody in west county has to be disrupted. Gmafb. They can figure out a way to balance enrollment without this regional programs mess that will increase racial and economic segregation because guess who will be traveling west? White kids. Guess who will be traveling east? Nobody.

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Anonymous wrote:Silver Spring families, please consider signing this well-written and argued petition: https://form.jotform.com/onestepatatime/fairboundaries.

Sorry--try this instead (have to delete the period): https://form.jotform.com/onestepatatime/fairboundaries

Yeah, I think filling out this petition and offering in the comments to help organize is a great way to do the cross-DCC work, and then joining the Northwood listserv (list+subscribe@northwoodptsa.groups) and reaching out to the PTSA (ptsa.northwoodhighschool@...@gmail.com) is a good way to do Northwood-specific work.

Folks should also turn out to the session on the boundaries and program analysis at 7 this Thursday at Kennedy. They may not leave much time for questions but at least they can't screen and control what you ask, and folks can bring signs and otherwise insist on being seen and heard.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwood should have the criteria-based performing arts program reinstated ASAP for starters.

But why? I have a child who wants to join the Law Academy at Northwood. When my oldest attended Northwood, the arts program wasn’t that prominent. I fully support Einstein having the Performing Arts Magnet — that’s what the school is known for. However, the real issue is that the county seems unwilling to give Northwood the Humanities program because they don’t view our students as thinkers, future lawmakers, or leaders. A Humanities program could benefit Northwood tremendously, but instead, they’re giving both of our academy programs to the “W” schools.

there's only one "w" school in the region....

Oh come on, you know what she means. Lots of people consider BCC an honorary W school.

B-CC, with a 25% FARMS rate and less than 50% white, is very different from Whitman. It’s convenient for people on this board to lump them together to say “the W schools” are getting everything in an us vs. them way, but it’s not that simple.

To those of us in schools that are 60%+ FARMS, that makes BCC the same as any W school. And you not realizing that is part of the problem.

right there are differences but you dismiss the existance and needs of students at these schools when you lump them together and say they are all white and all rich

That's exactly right. The B-CC cluster was affected in the first set of boundary options, but the students who would've been the most impacted are the Black and Latino kids in the apartments on the east side of the cluster who were being sent to middle schools farther away, even if they stayed at B-CC for high school, and in one option were sent to Whitman and in another option to WJ, which are both less accessible by public transportation than B-CC. The west part of the cluster (mostly Westland MS) was left alone in the first options. So, the fact that the new options don't mess with B-CC is a good thing for the lower-income kids at B-CC, whose needs are no less important than those of lower-income kids in the DCC just because their school isn't 60% FARMS.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwood should have the criteria-based performing arts program reinstated ASAP for starters.

But why? I have a child who wants to join the Law Academy at Northwood. When my oldest attended Northwood, the arts program wasn’t that prominent. I fully support Einstein having the Performing Arts Magnet — that’s what the school is known for. However, the real issue is that the county seems unwilling to give Northwood the Humanities program because they don’t view our students as thinkers, future lawmakers, or leaders. A Humanities program could benefit Northwood tremendously, but instead, they’re giving both of our academy programs to the “W” schools.

there's only one "w" school in the region....

Oh come on, you know what she means. Lots of people consider BCC an honorary W school.

B-CC, with a 25% FARMS rate and less than 50% white, is very different from Whitman. It’s convenient for people on this board to lump them together to say “the W schools” are getting everything in an us vs. them way, but it’s not that simple.

BCC may be different than Whitman but it's not much different then WJ. Definitely a W school in all but the letter, and pedantic to criticize the PP for calling it a W. Yes, Whitman is super-rich and that's different, but there's no point pretending BCC is not also among the richest schools in the county

I agree there are some nuances here and I would absolutely argue that BCC should be prioritized over Whitman for special programs and other advantages-- but also that DCC schools should be prioritized over BCC. (And schools like Kennedy prioritized over schools like Einstein.). It's a spectrum for sure, but the "BCC is sooo diverse and has sooo many poor kids, we're not a rich school at all" act just makes it seem like you haven't looked around the county and your only point of comparison is a place like Whitman., which makes no sense. You are among the better-off schools and you should own it.

(Speaking of, I'm not sure what county or century you think you're in, but around half white is the whitest MCPS high schools get. Even Whitman is only around 55% white and everywhere else is around where you are or lower.)