Woodward Auditorium Construction Advocacy Ahead of Monday County Council Meeting

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't there other capital projects that have been delayed for over a decade? Is the auditorium more important?

Do you have HS students? Ones who perform in school plays or musicals? Ones who play an instrument in the band or orchestra? Ones who sing in a chorus? Do you participate in grade-level meetings for parents? All of these and more take place in the auditorium that every other HS in the county has. This is about access and equity, and yes, it's more important than other capital projects, because you don't build 97% of a new HS, you build 100%

Woodward, rebuilt ahead of multiple other capital projects that were on the list for rebuilding first. Take your 97% of a school and be grateful.

The perennial MCPS Capital projects problem: Overcrowded schools get funded before schools that aren't overcrowded.

The DCC schools were overcrowded before WJ. It's just that westside parents have more influence so you went to the front of the line.

Please stop all this east side/west side stuff. Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.

This is pretty disingenuous when you are asking for advocacy for an auditorium and other communities are advocating for space to relieve overcrowding in school or to fix mold or provide ADA accommodation.

Make the case for why this auditorium is more important than all those other needs and more important Thant what the council is already proposing.

DP. Why is it disingenuous? If Northwood families don't advocate for themselves, who will advocate for them?

Because it said “Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.” The reality is that no one in another cluster or another school for that matter is an interested party in getting the auditorium. Particular if it means that other equally or more needed projects continue to get delayed

Any of the clusters included in the Woodward study might have an interest.

The Woodward Study should be renamed. This is really a realignment of several middle school and high school boundaries - it's just not about Woodward. The DCC needs to be part of the name of the study. That current name is intentional, so DCC families don't realize they need to pay attention to it. This has been going on for five years now.

It’s doubtful that it will really impact DCC. So, why would they care. It may pull from Rockville but that’s it.

Stop spreading misinformation.

Okay, let's be honest. Nobody cares about the DCC. It's an afterthought. That's why DCC schools are so overcrowded whereas Bethesda schools get build or renovated so much sooner.

And how does that explain Bethesda school WJ having to wait for relief from their absurd overcrowding until after DCC school Northwood has been rebuilt?

Blair has more portables than WJ, and yet WJ gets a new school, Woodward, to relieve the anxiety of WJ parents, while Blair does not. Stop whining about having to have Northwood use Woodward for a holding school. Count your blessings.

WJ has had several additions. Lots of schools have portables.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

Football is great and all but maybe they should just focus on reading and math until kids start doing better.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

Football is great and all but maybe they should just focus on reading and math until kids start doing better.

Now you are asking to much to go back to basics and make academics a priority.

[Anonymous]

Share facilities? Schools fight for field space as it is, now you want to double the amount if use per school? You really don't have kids, let alone HS students. Every Ezs amd MS school field is filled with rock and dirt patches, not to mention divots. Why? Overuse. The turf at HSs is in high demand (lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, football and I'm sire I'm forgetting by some things). And I'm not really sure what this has to do with Woodward and Crown needing an auditorium, which they both do

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Anonymous wrote:Share facilities? Schools fight for field space as it is, now you want to double the amount if use per school? You really don't have kids, let alone HS students. Every Ezs amd MS school field is filled with rock and dirt patches, not to mention divots. Why? Overuse. The turf at HSs is in high demand (lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, football and I'm sire I'm forgetting by some things). And I'm not really sure what this has to do with Woodward and Crown needing an auditorium, which they both do

The issue is more opening new schools with lack of space.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't there other capital projects that have been delayed for over a decade? Is the auditorium more important?

Do you have HS students? Ones who perform in school plays or musicals? Ones who play an instrument in the band or orchestra? Ones who sing in a chorus? Do you participate in grade-level meetings for parents? All of these and more take place in the auditorium that every other HS in the county has. This is about access and equity, and yes, it's more important than other capital projects, because you don't build 97% of a new HS, you build 100%

Woodward, rebuilt ahead of multiple other capital projects that were on the list for rebuilding first. Take your 97% of a school and be grateful.

The perennial MCPS Capital projects problem: Overcrowded schools get funded before schools that aren't overcrowded.

The DCC schools were overcrowded before WJ. It's just that westside parents have more influence so you went to the front of the line.

Please stop all this east side/west side stuff. Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.

This is pretty disingenuous when you are asking for advocacy for an auditorium and other communities are advocating for space to relieve overcrowding in school or to fix mold or provide ADA accommodation.

Make the case for why this auditorium is more important than all those other needs and more important Thant what the council is already proposing.

DP. Why is it disingenuous? If Northwood families don't advocate for themselves, who will advocate for them?

Because it said “Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.” The reality is that no one in another cluster or another school for that matter is an interested party in getting the auditorium. Particular if it means that other equally or more needed projects continue to get delayed

Any of the clusters included in the Woodward study might have an interest.

The Woodward Study should be renamed. This is really a realignment of several middle school and high school boundaries - it's just not about Woodward. The DCC needs to be part of the name of the study. That current name is intentional, so DCC families don't realize they need to pay attention to it. This has been going on for five years now.

It’s doubtful that it will really impact DCC. So, why would they care. It may pull from Rockville but that’s it.

Stop spreading misinformation.

Okay, let's be honest. Nobody cares about the DCC. It's an afterthought. That's why DCC schools are so overcrowded whereas Bethesda schools get build or renovated so much sooner.

And how does that explain Bethesda school WJ having to wait for relief from their absurd overcrowding until after DCC school Northwood has been rebuilt?

Blair has more portables than WJ, and yet WJ gets a new school, Woodward, to relieve the anxiety of WJ parents, while Blair does not. Stop whining about having to have Northwood use Woodward for a holding school. Count your blessings.

WJ has had several additions. Lots of schools have portables.

Blair has more portables than WJ, and yet WJ gets a new school, Woodward, to relieve the anxiety of WJ parents, while Blair does not. Stop whining about having to have Northwood use Woodward for a holding school. Count your blessings.

Northwood is being expanded to help relieve the overcapacity at Blair. DCC is getting a new school.

[Anonymous]

No one at WJ is whining about Northwood using Woodward. We all know when the BOE opened Northwood with "paint and a prayer" it would need to get redone, and WJ is ok with waiting*. And, are supporting Northwood students in their fight for not having to start early, for the auditorium as originally promised and for fields

*if BOE had built Woodward when originally needed for DCC and WJ it would have cost a lot less and would have been done years ago. Instead MCPS and BOE delay and deny and put off, and it costs more and kids are in overcrowded schools for a much longer time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

I don't recall that decision ever being made. Whenever I have heard MCPS staff asked about whether Woodward will become part of the consortium, the answer is always that's still TBD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

...for football?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

...for football?

A football team can use another location just like other sports do. A football team is only for what fifty students?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

...for football?

A football team can use another location just like other sports do. A football team is only for what fifty students?

Where at Strathmore do you think the football team should play?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

...for football?

A football team can use another location just like other sports do. A football team is only for what fifty students?

Where at Strathmore do you think the football team should play?

Woodward is close to WJ. They can share fields, except no need, because MCPS caved and paid to level the Woodward property at great expense to build Woodward's football field.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

...for football?

A football team can use another location just like other sports do. A football team is only for what fifty students?

Where at Strathmore do you think the football team should play?

Woodward is close to WJ. They can share fields, except no need, because MCPS caved and paid to level the Woodward property at great expense to build Woodward's football field.

What do you know about field usage at WJ?

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you have selective memory or you don't have a HS student without telling me you have selective memory and don't have a HS student.

Our overcrowded HS has people in the auditorium all the time. Rehearsing, performing, meeting. There's no time to rent it out to another HS.

If you don't remember because it was a long time ago or you were a football player who's parents only went to the field, don't screw it up for everyone else.

Also - the time to say, "hmm, let's make it an xx school and not a traditional neighborhood/cluster school" was years ago, and with community input, not a couple years before opening when it's already been being in the planning stages as a traditional neighborhood/cluster school for nearly 10 years

How many kids play football in each school? They can share or use other venues like strathmore.

...for football?

A football team can use another location just like other sports do. A football team is only for what fifty students?

Where at Strathmore do you think the football team should play?

Woodward is close to WJ. They can share fields, except no need, because MCPS caved and paid to level the Woodward property at great expense to build Woodward's football field.

What do you know about field usage at WJ?

They can make it work.