Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

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Anonymous wrote:What should have been done that wasn’t done?

Direct, fulsome answers/responses to all of the pointed, nuanced questions asked/issues raised (not just the ones hand picked as easily addressable by gatekeeping moderators),

With all questions/issues and corresponding answers/responses made public for fully informed stakeholder consideration,

With public access to the data/map construction tools used by MCPS/the consultant such that any variation could be equivalently presented for BOE consideration (if they so chose),

With timing to allow for all of that.

If Taylor admitted the current Wootton building would be closed until MCPS finds the money, it would be game over as a school closure because MCPS has to move the boundaries to relocate Wootton’s students to Crown.

The building is unsafe.

Did MCPS declare it so?

Wootton parents said so which is why they are closing the building.

So you believe Wootton parents when it suits you, but you don’t when it doesn’t. Got it.

Yes, we believe them when they say the physical building is not safe. That's why they got so lucky to be given a new building.

So you believe them when they say that they want remediation of the current building and don’t want the new building?

So you believe them when they say that if Wootton’s current building will be used as a holding school, they should be allowed to stay?

So you believe them when they say that Magruder kids deserve to use Crown as a holding school while their far more unsafe school is renovated?

The question of whether a school is safe or not is pretty matter of fact. Everything else you’ve mentioned (except for Magruder being unsafe) is, on the other hand, about what specific communities desire. We can believe you want that, sure, but we don’t have to have the same desire as you.

So if Wootton parents have claimed their school is unsafe for many years, and you believe that claim as a matter of indisputable fact, why was Wootton taken off the CIP three different times (even before MCPS broke ground on Crown)? Such dire conditions couldn’t have waited years for Crown to be built (for someone else). They also can’t wait for Crown to be finished and opened in fall 2027. Remediation must happen right now. Then again, that would remove the primary impetus for Taylor to close Wootton and move its kids to Crown in order to fill a school that shouldn’t have been built.

1) I wasn't the prior poster. While Wootton is in poor condition, the facility rating is not reflective of immediate danger. However it is true to say it’s nearing end of life.

2) It was most certainly NOT in dangerous conditions when it was previously on the CIP.

3) I have no answer to your question about why it was taken off the CIP. That’s something you should ask the county directly. People who have a neutral mindset on this like myself or even those who vehemently support H don’t have anything stake in that.


My two cents from a pure cost benefit analysis stand point? The Crown land was good for a HS and if that land was going to have to be given back, they should build something there.

It would have been given back to the city for a park/recreational community space. Had MCPS decided not to build a school and the city not to build a community space, it would’ve been given back.

Exactly and why would MCPS want to lose that valuable land for a school with that in mind?

So it was the valuable land, not outdated, pre-Covid enrollment projections, that motivated MCPS to build a school it didn’t need? Makes the timing of pulling Wootton off the CIP ever more suspect.

I wonder what the reaction would have been if MCPS had disclosed back when it broke ground on Crown a few years ago that it was considering plugging Wootton kids into Crown?

Wootton was considered part of the Crown boundary study from the very beginning.

But moving the boundaries didn’t include closing Wootton and relocating all of its kids to Crown. If that were even a possibility, this issue would have been raised and addressed long before Option H was proposed.

Because the overall enrollment decrease wasn't enough at the time for that to be an option. Now it is.

Suddenly this was discovered in December last year?

Were Options E, F, G, and H contemplated when Options A, B, C, and D were proposed? Presumably MCPS had them as fallback options. Also, why was Option H not proposed at the same time as Options E, F, and G? Was there a meeting with MCPS that caused Taylor to propose it later? If so, who met with him?

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Anonymous wrote:What should have been done that wasn’t done?

Direct, fulsome answers/responses to all of the pointed, nuanced questions asked/issues raised (not just the ones hand picked as easily addressable by gatekeeping moderators),

With all questions/issues and corresponding answers/responses made public for fully informed stakeholder consideration,

With public access to the data/map construction tools used by MCPS/the consultant such that any variation could be equivalently presented for BOE consideration (if they so chose),

With timing to allow for all of that.

If Taylor admitted the current Wootton building would be closed until MCPS finds the money, it would be game over as a school closure because MCPS has to move the boundaries to relocate Wootton’s students to Crown.

The building is unsafe.

Did MCPS declare it so?

Wootton parents said so which is why they are closing the building.

So you believe Wootton parents when it suits you, but you don’t when it doesn’t. Got it.

Yes, we believe them when they say the physical building is not safe. That's why they got so lucky to be given a new building.

So you believe them when they say that they want remediation of the current building and don’t want the new building?

So you believe them when they say that if Wootton’s current building will be used as a holding school, they should be allowed to stay?

So you believe them when they say that Magruder kids deserve to use Crown as a holding school while their far more unsafe school is renovated?

The question of whether a school is safe or not is pretty matter of fact. Everything else you’ve mentioned (except for Magruder being unsafe) is, on the other hand, about what specific communities desire. We can believe you want that, sure, but we don’t have to have the same desire as you.

So if Wootton parents have claimed their school is unsafe for many years, and you believe that claim as a matter of indisputable fact, why was Wootton taken off the CIP three different times (even before MCPS broke ground on Crown)? Such dire conditions couldn’t have waited years for Crown to be built (for someone else). They also can’t wait for Crown to be finished and opened in fall 2027. Remediation must happen right now. Then again, that would remove the primary impetus for Taylor to close Wootton and move its kids to Crown in order to fill a school that shouldn’t have been built.

1) I wasn't the prior poster. While Wootton is in poor condition, the facility rating is not reflective of immediate danger. However it is true to say it’s nearing end of life.

2) It was most certainly NOT in dangerous conditions when it was previously on the CIP.

3) I have no answer to your question about why it was taken off the CIP. That’s something you should ask the county directly. People who have a neutral mindset on this like myself or even those who vehemently support H don’t have anything stake in that.


My two cents from a pure cost benefit analysis stand point? The Crown land was good for a HS and if that land was going to have to be given back, they should build something there.

It would have been given back to the city for a park/recreational community space. Had MCPS decided not to build a school and the city not to build a community space, it would’ve been given back.

Exactly and why would MCPS want to lose that valuable land for a school with that in mind?

So it was the valuable land, not outdated, pre-Covid enrollment projections, that motivated MCPS to build a school it didn’t need? Makes the timing of pulling Wootton off the CIP ever more suspect.

I wonder what the reaction would have been if MCPS had disclosed back when it broke ground on Crown a few years ago that it was considering plugging Wootton kids into Crown?

Wootton was considered part of the Crown boundary study from the very beginning.

But moving the boundaries didn’t include closing Wootton and relocating all of its kids to Crown. If that were even a possibility, this issue would have been raised and addressed long before Option H was proposed.

Because the overall enrollment decrease wasn't enough at the time for that to be an option. Now it is.

Suddenly this was discovered in December last year?

Were Options E, F, G, and H contemplated when Options A, B, C, and D were proposed? Presumably MCPS had them as fallback options. Also, why was Option H not proposed at the same time as Options E, F, and G? Was there a meeting with MCPS that caused Taylor to propose it later? If so, who met with him?

A-D were meant to follow the regional program model therefore moving away from originally released 1-4. However, ABCD did not reflect the dropping enrollment. Once new numbers came out (a week after A-D were released...you'd think they could have waited) the county reconsidered.

H WAS released with E-G.

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Anonymous wrote:What a conspiracy theory. I think there is WAY too much credit being given to the long game that MCPS has supposedly be playing to close Wootton.

Not really. Folks on this thread (and previous ones) claimed that Crown was built 100% in good faith to ease overcrowding at QO, GHS, etc. Now they’re claiming that MCPS was absolutely right to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land, regardless of whether there are enough kids to fill it.

Not much of a logical leap to think MCPS always considered closing Wootton, moving its boundaries, then transplanting its kids if the 2019 enrollment projections proved to be wrong, which of course they were. No one with any credibility in business was using pre-COVID projections in 2024 (5-year old projections are incredibly out of date). Thus, no one would spend $400M building an unnecessary facility unless there was an ulterior motive. This is supported by the fact that Wootton kept getting pulled off the CIP, allowing its facility to degrade to the point that closing Wootton was a fait accompli.

It fits a narrative. They built Crown with the intention to relieve overcrowding and that they had to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land. When you combine those 2 things, they fit with Crown being built. I can't make the leap they were planning this all along to close the Wootton building nor do I think Wootton being pulled off the CIP multiple times proves that.

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Anonymous wrote:What should have been done that wasn’t done?

Direct, fulsome answers/responses to all of the pointed, nuanced questions asked/issues raised (not just the ones hand picked as easily addressable by gatekeeping moderators),

With all questions/issues and corresponding answers/responses made public for fully informed stakeholder consideration,

With public access to the data/map construction tools used by MCPS/the consultant such that any variation could be equivalently presented for BOE consideration (if they so chose),

With timing to allow for all of that.

If Taylor admitted the current Wootton building would be closed until MCPS finds the money, it would be game over as a school closure because MCPS has to move the boundaries to relocate Wootton’s students to Crown.

The building is unsafe.

Did MCPS declare it so?

Wootton parents said so which is why they are closing the building.

So you believe Wootton parents when it suits you, but you don’t when it doesn’t. Got it.

Yes, we believe them when they say the physical building is not safe. That's why they got so lucky to be given a new building.

So you believe them when they say that they want remediation of the current building and don’t want the new building?

So you believe them when they say that if Wootton’s current building will be used as a holding school, they should be allowed to stay?

So you believe them when they say that Magruder kids deserve to use Crown as a holding school while their far more unsafe school is renovated?

The question of whether a school is safe or not is pretty matter of fact. Everything else you’ve mentioned (except for Magruder being unsafe) is, on the other hand, about what specific communities desire. We can believe you want that, sure, but we don’t have to have the same desire as you.

So if Wootton parents have claimed their school is unsafe for many years, and you believe that claim as a matter of indisputable fact, why was Wootton taken off the CIP three different times (even before MCPS broke ground on Crown)? Such dire conditions couldn’t have waited years for Crown to be built (for someone else). They also can’t wait for Crown to be finished and opened in fall 2027. Remediation must happen right now. Then again, that would remove the primary impetus for Taylor to close Wootton and move its kids to Crown in order to fill a school that shouldn’t have been built.

1) I wasn't the prior poster. While Wootton is in poor condition, the facility rating is not reflective of immediate danger. However it is true to say it’s nearing end of life.

2) It was most certainly NOT in dangerous conditions when it was previously on the CIP.

3) I have no answer to your question about why it was taken off the CIP. That’s something you should ask the county directly. People who have a neutral mindset on this like myself or even those who vehemently support H don’t have anything stake in that.


My two cents from a pure cost benefit analysis stand point? The Crown land was good for a HS and if that land was going to have to be given back, they should build something there.

It would have been given back to the city for a park/recreational community space. Had MCPS decided not to build a school and the city not to build a community space, it would’ve been given back.

Exactly and why would MCPS want to lose that valuable land for a school with that in mind?

So it was the valuable land, not outdated, pre-Covid enrollment projections, that motivated MCPS to build a school it didn’t need? Makes the timing of pulling Wootton off the CIP ever more suspect.

I wonder what the reaction would have been if MCPS had disclosed back when it broke ground on Crown a few years ago that it was considering plugging Wootton kids into Crown?

Wootton was considered part of the Crown boundary study from the very beginning.

But moving the boundaries didn’t include closing Wootton and relocating all of its kids to Crown. If that were even a possibility, this issue would have been raised and addressed long before Option H was proposed.

Because the overall enrollment decrease wasn't enough at the time for that to be an option. Now it is.

Suddenly this was discovered in December last year?

Were Options E, F, G, and H contemplated when Options A, B, C, and D were proposed? Presumably MCPS had them as fallback options. Also, why was Option H not proposed at the same time as Options E, F, and G? Was there a meeting with MCPS that caused Taylor to propose it later? If so, who met with him?

A-D were meant to follow the regional program model therefore moving away from originally released 1-4. However, ABCD did not reflect the dropping enrollment. Once new numbers came out (a week after A-D were released...you'd think they could have waited) the county reconsidered.

H WAS released with E-G.

The full details on Option H were released 2 days later. It was only then that MCPS clarified Option H involved permanently relocating Wootton to Crown. It also clarified that the old Wootton building would be a holding school.

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Anonymous wrote:What a conspiracy theory. I think there is WAY too much credit being given to the long game that MCPS has supposedly be playing to close Wootton.

Not really. Folks on this thread (and previous ones) claimed that Crown was built 100% in good faith to ease overcrowding at QO, GHS, etc. Now they’re claiming that MCPS was absolutely right to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land, regardless of whether there are enough kids to fill it.

Not much of a logical leap to think MCPS always considered closing Wootton, moving its boundaries, then transplanting its kids if the 2019 enrollment projections proved to be wrong, which of course they were. No one with any credibility in business was using pre-COVID projections in 2024 (5-year old projections are incredibly out of date). Thus, no one would spend $400M building an unnecessary facility unless there was an ulterior motive. This is supported by the fact that Wootton kept getting pulled off the CIP, allowing its facility to degrade to the point that closing Wootton was a fait accompli.

It fits a narrative. They built Crown with the intention to relieve overcrowding and that they had to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land. When you combine those 2 things, they fit with Crown being built. I can't make the leap they were planning this all along to close the Wootton building nor do I think Wootton being pulled off the CIP multiple times proves that.

And RM was also pulled off the CIP despite already having architectural drawings created for the RM expansion. It's not a conspiracy. Things change.

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Anonymous wrote:What a conspiracy theory. I think there is WAY too much credit being given to the long game that MCPS has supposedly be playing to close Wootton.

Not really. Folks on this thread (and previous ones) claimed that Crown was built 100% in good faith to ease overcrowding at QO, GHS, etc. Now they’re claiming that MCPS was absolutely right to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land, regardless of whether there are enough kids to fill it.

Not much of a logical leap to think MCPS always considered closing Wootton, moving its boundaries, then transplanting its kids if the 2019 enrollment projections proved to be wrong, which of course they were. No one with any credibility in business was using pre-COVID projections in 2024 (5-year old projections are incredibly out of date). Thus, no one would spend $400M building an unnecessary facility unless there was an ulterior motive. This is supported by the fact that Wootton kept getting pulled off the CIP, allowing its facility to degrade to the point that closing Wootton was a fait accompli.

It fits a narrative. They built Crown with the intention to relieve overcrowding and that they had to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land. When you combine those 2 things, they fit with Crown being built. I can't make the leap they were planning this all along to close the Wootton building nor do I think Wootton being pulled off the CIP multiple times proves that.

I believe discussions of using Crown to house an existing high school began in late-2024. Wootton was pulled off the CIP in May 2024, and construction on Crown began in July 2024. These actions may have triggered the discussions about relocating an existing high school, putting Wootton directly in the relocation crosshairs.

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Anonymous wrote:What a conspiracy theory. I think there is WAY too much credit being given to the long game that MCPS has supposedly be playing to close Wootton.

Not really. Folks on this thread (and previous ones) claimed that Crown was built 100% in good faith to ease overcrowding at QO, GHS, etc. Now they’re claiming that MCPS was absolutely right to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land, regardless of whether there are enough kids to fill it.

Not much of a logical leap to think MCPS always considered closing Wootton, moving its boundaries, then transplanting its kids if the 2019 enrollment projections proved to be wrong, which of course they were. No one with any credibility in business was using pre-COVID projections in 2024 (5-year old projections are incredibly out of date). Thus, no one would spend $400M building an unnecessary facility unless there was an ulterior motive. This is supported by the fact that Wootton kept getting pulled off the CIP, allowing its facility to degrade to the point that closing Wootton was a fait accompli.

It fits a narrative. They built Crown with the intention to relieve overcrowding and that they had to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land. When you combine those 2 things, they fit with Crown being built. I can't make the leap they were planning this all along to close the Wootton building nor do I think Wootton being pulled off the CIP multiple times proves that.

I believe discussions of using Crown to house an existing high school began in late-2024. Wootton was pulled off the CIP in May 2024, and construction on Crown began in July 2024. These actions may have triggered the discussions about relocating an existing high school, putting Wootton directly in the relocation crosshairs.

It would appear MCPS knew Wootton was pulled off the CIP when it broke ground on Crown. MCPS also likely knew that its pre-Covid enrollment projections were inaccurate at that time, but as a few PPs noted, MCPS didn’t want to lose the Crown land. So, it’s not much of a logical leap to assume the plan was to transplant Wootton to Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:What a conspiracy theory. I think there is WAY too much credit being given to the long game that MCPS has supposedly be playing to close Wootton.

Not really. Folks on this thread (and previous ones) claimed that Crown was built 100% in good faith to ease overcrowding at QO, GHS, etc. Now they’re claiming that MCPS was absolutely right to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land, regardless of whether there are enough kids to fill it.

Not much of a logical leap to think MCPS always considered closing Wootton, moving its boundaries, then transplanting its kids if the 2019 enrollment projections proved to be wrong, which of course they were. No one with any credibility in business was using pre-COVID projections in 2024 (5-year old projections are incredibly out of date). Thus, no one would spend $400M building an unnecessary facility unless there was an ulterior motive. This is supported by the fact that Wootton kept getting pulled off the CIP, allowing its facility to degrade to the point that closing Wootton was a fait accompli.

It fits a narrative. They built Crown with the intention to relieve overcrowding and that they had to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land. When you combine those 2 things, they fit with Crown being built. I can't make the leap they were planning this all along to close the Wootton building nor do I think Wootton being pulled off the CIP multiple times proves that.

I believe discussions of using Crown to house an existing high school began in late-2024. Wootton was pulled off the CIP in May 2024, and construction on Crown began in July 2024. These actions may have triggered the discussions about relocating an existing high school, putting Wootton directly in the relocation crosshairs.

It would appear MCPS knew Wootton was pulled off the CIP when it broke ground on Crown. MCPS also likely knew that its pre-Covid enrollment projections were inaccurate at that time, but as a few PPs noted, MCPS didn’t want to lose the Crown land. So, it’s not much of a logical leap to assume the plan was to transplant Wootton to Crown.

Crown was planned long before covid.

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Wootton needs to stop the drama. Wootton families said the building is unsafe. MCPS listened and gave them a new building. Be grateful.

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Anonymous wrote:What a conspiracy theory. I think there is WAY too much credit being given to the long game that MCPS has supposedly be playing to close Wootton.

Not really. Folks on this thread (and previous ones) claimed that Crown was built 100% in good faith to ease overcrowding at QO, GHS, etc. Now they’re claiming that MCPS was absolutely right to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land, regardless of whether there are enough kids to fill it.

Not much of a logical leap to think MCPS always considered closing Wootton, moving its boundaries, then transplanting its kids if the 2019 enrollment projections proved to be wrong, which of course they were. No one with any credibility in business was using pre-COVID projections in 2024 (5-year old projections are incredibly out of date). Thus, no one would spend $400M building an unnecessary facility unless there was an ulterior motive. This is supported by the fact that Wootton kept getting pulled off the CIP, allowing its facility to degrade to the point that closing Wootton was a fait accompli.

It fits a narrative. They built Crown with the intention to relieve overcrowding and that they had to build Crown to avoid losing valuable land. When you combine those 2 things, they fit with Crown being built. I can't make the leap they were planning this all along to close the Wootton building nor do I think Wootton being pulled off the CIP multiple times proves that.

I believe discussions of using Crown to house an existing high school began in late-2024. Wootton was pulled off the CIP in May 2024, and construction on Crown began in July 2024. These actions may have triggered the discussions about relocating an existing high school, putting Wootton directly in the relocation crosshairs.

It would appear MCPS knew Wootton was pulled off the CIP when it broke ground on Crown. MCPS also likely knew that its pre-Covid enrollment projections were inaccurate at that time, but as a few PPs noted, MCPS didn’t want to lose the Crown land. So, it’s not much of a logical leap to assume the plan was to transplant Wootton to Crown.

Crown was planned long before covid.

Of course it was. But just because you plan something doesn’t mean you build it. Plenty of examples of this when a school is pulled off the CIP.

MCPS likely knew its pre-COVID enrollment projections were inaccurate in July 2024 when it broke ground for Crown. But as others have said, it didn’t want to lose the land. It also knew Wootton wasn’t on the CIP anymore. Not a leap in logic to think that MCPS had Wootton in mind to transplant into Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton needs to stop the drama. Wootton families said the building is unsafe. MCPS listened and gave them a new building. Be grateful.

MCPS created the drama. Wootton doesn’t want Crown. Give it to Magruder as a holding school so it can get its badly needed renovation of an even more unsafe building done ASAP. MCPS can always transplant Wootton to Crown later if that’s what enrollment projections really support. What’s the rush?

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton needs to stop the drama. Wootton families said the building is unsafe. MCPS listened and gave them a new building. Be grateful.

MCPS created the drama. Wootton doesn’t want Crown. Give it to Magruder as a holding school so it can get its badly needed renovation of an even more unsafe building done ASAP. MCPS can always transplant Wootton to Crown later if that’s what enrollment projections really support. What’s the rush?

Some of Wootton doesn't want Crown. Some of Wootton wants out of the unsafe Wootton building and is happy with Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton needs to stop the drama. Wootton families said the building is unsafe. MCPS listened and gave them a new building. Be grateful.

MCPS created the drama. Wootton doesn’t want Crown. Give it to Magruder as a holding school so it can get its badly needed renovation of an even more unsafe building done ASAP. MCPS can always transplant Wootton to Crown later if that’s what enrollment projections really support. What’s the rush?

You're in a public school system doing a boundary study and Wootton schools are some of the closest to Crown with 2 other nearby high schools overcrowded (Churchill and RM) while Wootton was underenrolled.. Wootton cluster was always going to be one of the most highly affected clusters in a boundary study with a new high school next to the Wootton boundaries whether there were issues with the existing Wootton building or not. Either way whatever "Wootton" was would have changed. It's just being changed in a different way than diverting other schools to Wootton and sending some Wootton neighbhorhoods and schools closer to Crown to a new school.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton needs to stop the drama. Wootton families said the building is unsafe. MCPS listened and gave them a new building. Be grateful.

MCPS created the drama. Wootton doesn’t want Crown. Give it to Magruder as a holding school so it can get its badly needed renovation of an even more unsafe building done ASAP. MCPS can always transplant Wootton to Crown later if that’s what enrollment projections really support. What’s the rush?

No, Wootton families wanted drama and created this. You may not want Crown but it was the best option in response to your advocacy for the unsafe conditions at your school. Take responsibility. Is Wootton unsafe or not?

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton needs to stop the drama. Wootton families said the building is unsafe. MCPS listened and gave them a new building. Be grateful.

MCPS created the drama. Wootton doesn’t want Crown. Give it to Magruder as a holding school so it can get its badly needed renovation of an even more unsafe building done ASAP. MCPS can always transplant Wootton to Crown later if that’s what enrollment projections really support. What’s the rush?

What about the Gaithersburg families from FRES, Rosemont, and others who have been planning to go to Crown for 20 years? Do they not matter? Or should they just be part of a hybrid school forever? MCPS has to think about the entire population and equity and this situation allows for a stable and safe school for everyone for the long term.