Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Problem is, we don't really know how the split breaks. Doing so would require a survey, and who has time for that? Survey of Wootton parents' appetite for being relocated should've been done when the Boundary Study was happening all of last year. But oh well, MCPS blew that and instead suprised parents and got to find out in a chaotic, real-time manner, the response to their unanticipated proposal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

The hybrid proposal is a fever dream from Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman. It is not being considered seriously by MCPS.

Either Wootton moves there or Crown becomes a holding school. Problem is, if it becomes a holding school, the only high school slated for a rebuild in the current CIP is Damascus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well said but I don't think any rational logic has place here with these keyboard warriors. Let them fume away and burn through some cash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 don't want Crown as you would rather spend your time complaining on social media vs. putting that time into your kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

They should leave Wootton alone and have the families who want Crown go to crown so their kids are safe. The few Wooton advocates don't care about Gaithersburg families.

[Anonymous]

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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.

These are not mutually contradictory. The new Wootton @ Crown will relieve over-crowding at those schools. QO will go from 120% to around 95% for example. And Crown is being built with a higher capacity than the current Wootton and can be expanded further to 2700 kids without much difficulty if needed. It’s clearly better for the county to balance enrollment needs geographically than the current Wootton site.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Many schools need repairs but Gaithersburg needs a school too. Stop being selfish and obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

They should leave Wootton alone and have the families who want Crown go to crown so their kids are safe. The few Wooton advocates don't care about Gaithersburg families.

Y’all be talking about caring about Gaithersburg families who will be affected when Gaithersburg HS is already dropping below 100% and is not in the same zip code as crown HS. Who is in the same zip code as Crown?

- Fields Road
- DuFief
- Stone Mill
- Travilah

…and then QO feeders that are way closer to QO than Crown and shouldn’t move to Crown.


But, sure, let’s not send SM, DuFief and Travilah to Crown at the expense of “Gaithersburg kids” who live in a diff zip code right next to Gaithersburg HS.

Okay. Improving the experience for kids at GHS also means filling the building in a way that will make their home school less overcrowded. Not busing them across 270 to a new school when GHS is in walking distance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

They should leave Wootton alone and have the families who want Crown go to crown so their kids are safe. The few Wooton advocates don't care about Gaithersburg families.

Y’all be talking about caring about Gaithersburg families who will be affected when Gaithersburg HS is already dropping below 100% and is not in the same zip code as crown HS. Who is in the same zip code as Crown?

- Fields Road
- DuFief
- Stone Mill
- Travilah

…and then QO feeders that are way closer to QO than Crown and shouldn’t move to Crown.


But, sure, let’s not send SM, DuFief and Travilah to Crown at the expense of “Gaithersburg kids” who live in a diff zip code right next to Gaithersburg HS.

Okay. Improving the experience for kids at GHS also means filling the building in a way that will make their home school less overcrowded. Not busing them across 270 to a new school when GHS is in walking distance.

Look, you started this drama with your demands. They don't need to fill the building. It's fine to have it at a lower capacity. Per you, Wootton is unsafe. So, stop flip-flopping and be grateful for this opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Is it true that rich families are donating $500.00 each to raise $100,000.00 to fight having their children mix with families who are not rich? And is it true that parents from a current Wootton elementary school were removed from a group chat? Or is this just silly drama that could never be true?