Anonymous
08/06/2023 10:53
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Anonymous
08/06/2023 10:48
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
Anonymous
08/06/2023 10:46
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
The thing is, filling it up with kids that already like their school is a risky proposition. Sure Einstein parents might be all about it but that’s it.
Most like the use a scalpel to relieve overcrowding and not a hatchet. That would leave plenty of capacity for a few special programs and DCC lottery space for all the parents who “love silver spring” but resent having to send their kids to their IB schools. Woodward will most likely become the #1 lottery choice which tells you all you really need to know about the current options.
Every boundary change does this. Also, rising seniors likely won't move. Rising juniors likely won't move. Rising freshmen won't have been at the school in the first place. So this would only affect only one group of kids: rising sophomores, for the first year after the boundary change. The anxiety about "won't somebody think of the children" on DCUM is all out of proportion with the actual likely scope of the change, and it suggests that the anxiety is really about something else. For example, property values.
Anonymous
08/06/2023 10:42
Subject: Re:Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
The upcoming boundary study is to establish each school's boundaries. Whether or not the DCC is expanded is out of scope of the study and would be addressed separately.
Anonymous
08/06/2023 10:37
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote: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.
The thing is, filling it up with kids that already like their school is a risky proposition. Sure Einstein parents might be all about it but that’s it.
Most like the use a scalpel to relieve overcrowding and not a hatchet. That would leave plenty of capacity for a few special programs and DCC lottery space for all the parents who “love silver spring” but resent having to send their kids to their IB schools. Woodward will most likely become the #1 lottery choice which tells you all you really need to know about the current options.
Anonymous
08/06/2023 10:30
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
08/06/2023 10:04
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:Nah, Woodward and WJ both will go down in test scores.
Bulk averages of standardized test scores are simply reflection of a school's demographics. It has nothing to do with the schools quality of educational opportunities available.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 19:42
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Nah, Woodward and WJ both will go down in test scores.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 11:14
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Vogue? Hunh? WTH does that mean?
"popular, in fashion"
As in: wealth is no longer fleeing cities for the 'burbs but rather the reverse.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 11:10
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If mist businesses were run like mcps they would be out of business.
If MCPS were run like most businesses, MCPS would be out of business.
As would all public schools. It's not a business.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 11:10
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:Quit using the word PAR unless you're referring to the PAR program in mcps that is geared to make new teachers work extra hours on top of their unpaid overtime as well as strip them from any protections from crazy students, parents, and admin.
This is not golf this is educations system that makes teachers feel helpless.
"Par" has multiple meanings. Just because you're a lousy teacher doesn't mean others can't use English as they like.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 10:38
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 10:29
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
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.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 10:24
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Vogue? Hunh? WTH does that mean?
It means that poor people are increasingly living in suburban areas (like Montgomery County), not just the "inner city," and some non-poor people in suburban areas (like Montgomery County) yearn for the good old days (according to them) when all poor people lived in non-suburban areas of concentrated poverty far away from them.
Anonymous
08/05/2023 10:20
Subject: Will Woodward be on par with Whitman and Churchill?
Anonymous wrote:If mist businesses were run like mcps they would be out of business.
If MCPS were run like most businesses, MCPS would be out of business.