Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

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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.

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.

Honestly, Wootton's parents' appetite for being relocated isn't really relevant. Boundary changes are always contentious because few people want 'change,' whatever that change is. If they did surveys of parents whose kids are affected the responses would always be "no." MCPS's job isn't to make every parent happy. It's to make hard decisions that are good for the county as a whole and can be sustained for decades. I'm sympathetic to a pp who suggested they could use Crown as a holding school for a few years and postpone the decision to see how demographics work out, but I'm sure one of their priorities is to make a decision now that can be keep things constant for 20 years or so, as predictability and consistency is valuable in its own right.

It would be relevant to gauge the intensity of pushback and ensure the thoroughness and collaboration needed to minimize fighting by communicating directly, fairly and in a manner that allowed for understanding to be developed between the system and the community.

Even if you believe Option H is the right decision, which it might be, the way MCPS dropped it on the Wootton community out of thin air was at best inconsiderate, and at worst, disrespectful.

Inconsiderate and disrespectful are reasons you break up with a guy, not sue a school system.

Right… as if there wouldn’t still be a legal fundraiser going on right now if mcps had been more considerate and respectful but with the same end results. That’s all it would have taken. Sure

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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.

Unless it’s a housing project in the current Wootton catchment area. Then you not only definitely build it, but you immediately fill it with 3+ kids. Any school districts who tell you otherwise are using bad data, probably to further their evil plans.

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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.

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.

MCPS likely planned on transplanting Wootton kids to Crown when it broke ground. This was an idea considered formally by MCPS in November 2024. Why did MCPS wait over a year to tell Wootton that it was on the chopping block? The reason is that MCPS didn’t want to give enough time for community advocacy to mobilize - it didn’t want to go through the whole Woodward mess again.

It's worse than waiting to tell Wootton, they spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a bait and switch "Boundary Study" that they immediately discarded with this B.S. "Option H" in the eleventh hour. This has such a stench of corruption.

Or... the information they got from the boundary study and the many ideas and feedback they got through the deliberation process led them to revise their ideas and propose a solution they thought better reflected the data and feedback they were receiving. Some of that feedback may well have been complaints from Wootton stakeholders about the quality of their building or complaints about other aspects of the first several proposals and/or feedback from others that caused them to question the merits of choices A-G and come up with a better solution, which they labeled H.

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Anonymous wrote:The most dilapidated building is undeniably Magruder. Give us a plan. We rather be at Crown if only to force the issue of getting us on the CIP. Option H will not result in a plan for Magruder.

Wootton considers your kids less worthy than theirs so its ok that ceiling tiles are falling and could kill someone, apparently. Funny as Magruder would probably jump at the chance for a new school.

You're not making sense. The majority of Wootton families are begging to stay at their Wootton campus, and they stood alongside Magruder at recent BOE meetings to say Magruder should remain first in line to receive repairs. It's the Superintendent and MCPS that are prioritizing Wootton over Magruder, and the Wootton community is standing up to say that's not right.

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

Hey! Unfair! A LOT of the biggest complainers don’t have kids at home anymore to put time into!

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Anonymous wrote:The most dilapidated building is undeniably Magruder. Give us a plan. We rather be at Crown if only to force the issue of getting us on the CIP. Option H will not result in a plan for Magruder.

Wootton considers your kids less worthy than theirs so its ok that ceiling tiles are falling and could kill someone, apparently. Funny as Magruder would probably jump at the chance for a new school.

You're not making sense. The majority of Wootton families are begging to stay at their Wootton campus, and they stood alongside Magruder at recent BOE meetings to say Magruder should remain first in line to receive repairs. It's the Superintendent and MCPS that are prioritizing Wootton over Magruder, and the Wootton community is standing up to say that's not right.

That's not the majority and they have you to thank. You said its unsafe. There isn't enough money to fix all the schools at once.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

No it’s not true. We are a groups of 509 rich families, donating $2,000 each. We already collected over $1,000,000 in funds. Get ready, MCPS, we will drown you in litigation. We can go on for 10 years at least.

Please be sure to save some funds for when current H advocates sue you because their kids have developed the black lung after 10 additional years in a festering school.

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Well that is a new narrative. Throwing more jello at the wall to see what sticks?

I have whiplash from all the different arguments the parkway parents have used. First it was the building in poor condition, then never mind don’t take us from our precious moldy paradise, then AVG and option W, then modified G, then modified H, then the language lawsuit, then Taylor is controlling the weather to plot against us, then four generations of sups have been diabolically against Wootton….and now you’re saying it’s all just been in support of Macgruder???

I need a neck brace….

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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.

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.

MCPS likely planned on transplanting Wootton kids to Crown when it broke ground. This was an idea considered formally by MCPS in November 2024. Why did MCPS wait over a year to tell Wootton that it was on the chopping block? The reason is that MCPS didn’t want to give enough time for community advocacy to mobilize - it didn’t want to go through the whole Woodward mess again.

It's worse than waiting to tell Wootton, they spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a bait and switch "Boundary Study" that they immediately discarded with this B.S. "Option H" in the eleventh hour. This has such a stench of corruption.

see above re: timeline. Same amount of time was given after H (and E-G for that matter) before the next "unveiling"--in this case the Sup's rec as had been given to other options. It just happened to be the last round (I get that the 11th hour feel comes from this) so it feels worse but is not actually, less time. in hindsight I am sure he wishes that he had unveiled this as not the last set of options just to get away from this "11th hour" narrative.

I don't care about "amount of time given". The previous options took community responses into account and were incorporating feedback. Then they flipped the table and threw everything they have been publicly talking about for months. Let's see what the legal challenges turn up. If there were internal options that were floated internally and not disclosed to the community, I want to know who knew and why it was withheld. Let's see what the lawsuit turns up.

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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.

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.

MCPS likely planned on transplanting Wootton kids to Crown when it broke ground. This was an idea considered formally by MCPS in November 2024. Why did MCPS wait over a year to tell Wootton that it was on the chopping block? The reason is that MCPS didn’t want to give enough time for community advocacy to mobilize - it didn’t want to go through the whole Woodward mess again.

It's worse than waiting to tell Wootton, they spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a bait and switch "Boundary Study" that they immediately discarded with this B.S. "Option H" in the eleventh hour. This has such a stench of corruption.

Or... the information they got from the boundary study and the many ideas and feedback they got through the deliberation process led them to revise their ideas and propose a solution they thought better reflected the data and feedback they were receiving. Some of that feedback may well have been complaints from Wootton stakeholders about the quality of their building or complaints about other aspects of the first several proposals and/or feedback from others that caused them to question the merits of choices A-G and come up with a better solution, which they labeled H.

The feedback they got? Are you serious? It did not align with their agenda so they discarded it as illegitimate. They also choose to ignore the room full of opposition in each and every meeting, and insist there is a non-vocal group of supporters that is large and not imaginary.

I'm sure this is totally NOT corruption like the E.V. buses were. That was just a fluke.

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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.

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.

MCPS likely planned on transplanting Wootton kids to Crown when it broke ground. This was an idea considered formally by MCPS in November 2024. Why did MCPS wait over a year to tell Wootton that it was on the chopping block? The reason is that MCPS didn’t want to give enough time for community advocacy to mobilize - it didn’t want to go through the whole Woodward mess again.

It's worse than waiting to tell Wootton, they spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a bait and switch "Boundary Study" that they immediately discarded with this B.S. "Option H" in the eleventh hour. This has such a stench of corruption.

see above re: timeline. Same amount of time was given after H (and E-G for that matter) before the next "unveiling"--in this case the Sup's rec as had been given to other options. It just happened to be the last round (I get that the 11th hour feel comes from this) so it feels worse but is not actually, less time. in hindsight I am sure he wishes that he had unveiled this as not the last set of options just to get away from this "11th hour" narrative.

I don't care about "amount of time given". The previous options took community responses into account and were incorporating feedback. Then they flipped the table and threw everything they have been publicly talking about for months. Let's see what the legal challenges turn up. If there were internal options that were floated internally and not disclosed to the community, I want to know who knew and why it was withheld. Let's see what the lawsuit turns up.

You realize that the recommendation DID incorporate feedback, that's why FRES is at Crown--they were not included on the original Option H. I'm sorry they didn't take YOUR feedback but they definitely did take feedback. There was an alternate option H map that got leaked by a BOE member so I know you know there were other ideas out there but I also don't think they need to share EVERY IDEA EVER CONSIDERED, do they? They need to share they ones they are truly considering.

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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.

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.

MCPS likely planned on transplanting Wootton kids to Crown when it broke ground. This was an idea considered formally by MCPS in November 2024. Why did MCPS wait over a year to tell Wootton that it was on the chopping block? The reason is that MCPS didn’t want to give enough time for community advocacy to mobilize - it didn’t want to go through the whole Woodward mess again.

It's worse than waiting to tell Wootton, they spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a bait and switch "Boundary Study" that they immediately discarded with this B.S. "Option H" in the eleventh hour. This has such a stench of corruption.

see above re: timeline. Same amount of time was given after H (and E-G for that matter) before the next "unveiling"--in this case the Sup's rec as had been given to other options. It just happened to be the last round (I get that the 11th hour feel comes from this) so it feels worse but is not actually, less time. in hindsight I am sure he wishes that he had unveiled this as not the last set of options just to get away from this "11th hour" narrative.

I don't care about "amount of time given". The previous options took community responses into account and were incorporating feedback. Then they flipped the table and threw everything they have been publicly talking about for months. Let's see what the legal challenges turn up. If there were internal options that were floated internally and not disclosed to the community, I want to know who knew and why it was withheld. Let's see what the lawsuit turns up.

The lawsuit is not going to get to the discovery phase if it’s premised on the hope that there might be internal emails somewhere.

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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.

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.

MCPS likely planned on transplanting Wootton kids to Crown when it broke ground. This was an idea considered formally by MCPS in November 2024. Why did MCPS wait over a year to tell Wootton that it was on the chopping block? The reason is that MCPS didn’t want to give enough time for community advocacy to mobilize - it didn’t want to go through the whole Woodward mess again.

It's worse than waiting to tell Wootton, they spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a bait and switch "Boundary Study" that they immediately discarded with this B.S. "Option H" in the eleventh hour. This has such a stench of corruption.

see above re: timeline. Same amount of time was given after H (and E-G for that matter) before the next "unveiling"--in this case the Sup's rec as had been given to other options. It just happened to be the last round (I get that the 11th hour feel comes from this) so it feels worse but is not actually, less time. in hindsight I am sure he wishes that he had unveiled this as not the last set of options just to get away from this "11th hour" narrative.

I don't care about "amount of time given". The previous options took community responses into account and were incorporating feedback. Then they flipped the table and threw everything they have been publicly talking about for months. Let's see what the legal challenges turn up. If there were internal options that were floated internally and not disclosed to the community, I want to know who knew and why it was withheld. Let's see what the lawsuit turns up.

You realize that the recommendation DID incorporate feedback, that's why FRES is at Crown--they were not included on the original Option H. I'm sorry they didn't take YOUR feedback but they definitely did take feedback. There was an alternate option H map that got leaked by a BOE member so I know you know there were other ideas out there but I also don't think they need to share EVERY IDEA EVER CONSIDERED, do they? They need to share they ones they are truly considering.

And don't forget they also moved Cold Spring to Churchill, which was feedback they received from the Wootton cluster that they felt was (and should be) actionable.

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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.

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.

Honestly, Wootton's parents' appetite for being relocated isn't really relevant. Boundary changes are always contentious because few people want 'change,' whatever that change is. If they did surveys of parents whose kids are affected the responses would always be "no." MCPS's job isn't to make every parent happy. It's to make hard decisions that are good for the county as a whole and can be sustained for decades. I'm sympathetic to a pp who suggested they could use Crown as a holding school for a few years and postpone the decision to see how demographics work out, but I'm sure one of their priorities is to make a decision now that can be keep things constant for 20 years or so, as predictability and consistency is valuable in its own right.

It would be relevant to gauge the intensity of pushback and ensure the thoroughness and collaboration needed to minimize fighting by communicating directly, fairly and in a manner that allowed for understanding to be developed between the system and the community.

Even if you believe Option H is the right decision, which it might be, the way MCPS dropped it on the Wootton community out of thin air was at best inconsiderate, and at worst, disrespectful.

Inconsiderate and disrespectful are reasons you break up with a guy, not sue a school system.

Right… as if there wouldn’t still be a legal fundraiser going on right now if mcps had been more considerate and respectful but with the same end results. That’s all it would have taken. Sure

You're not grasping the disrespectful part.

Everyone who participated in the Boundary Study knew and understood that the BOE would redrawing which kids and neighborhoods went to which schools. And that the meetings, surveys and testimonies that MCPS held and staff gathered on behalf of the superintendent and the board, were to shape and inform how those boundaries were drawn.

It was NEVER discussed that a scenario on the table was for a school building to be closed and a whole community moved without their input and say. If that was always an option the board and superintendent was willing to consider, then they should have said that from the beginning.

The "disrespect" was in dropping an unpleasant surprise on a community that never knew or understood that was a potential outcome.

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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.

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.

MCPS likely planned on transplanting Wootton kids to Crown when it broke ground. This was an idea considered formally by MCPS in November 2024. Why did MCPS wait over a year to tell Wootton that it was on the chopping block? The reason is that MCPS didn’t want to give enough time for community advocacy to mobilize - it didn’t want to go through the whole Woodward mess again.

It's worse than waiting to tell Wootton, they spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a bait and switch "Boundary Study" that they immediately discarded with this B.S. "Option H" in the eleventh hour. This has such a stench of corruption.

see above re: timeline. Same amount of time was given after H (and E-G for that matter) before the next "unveiling"--in this case the Sup's rec as had been given to other options. It just happened to be the last round (I get that the 11th hour feel comes from this) so it feels worse but is not actually, less time. in hindsight I am sure he wishes that he had unveiled this as not the last set of options just to get away from this "11th hour" narrative.

I don't care about "amount of time given". The previous options took community responses into account and were incorporating feedback. Then they flipped the table and threw everything they have been publicly talking about for months. Let's see what the legal challenges turn up. If there were internal options that were floated internally and not disclosed to the community, I want to know who knew and why it was withheld. Let's see what the lawsuit turns up.

You realize that the recommendation DID incorporate feedback, that's why FRES is at Crown--they were not included on the original Option H. I'm sorry they didn't take YOUR feedback but they definitely did take feedback. There was an alternate option H map that got leaked by a BOE member so I know you know there were other ideas out there but I also don't think they need to share EVERY IDEA EVER CONSIDERED, do they? They need to share they ones they are truly considering.

There was nothing close to a consensus from any feedback that leads to closing a high performing school. That is overwhelmingly unpopular in surveys, in person, by any conceivable metric. I'm sure this is just a little oopsy doopsy and that the corruption that tanked the E.V. bus deal was the only corruption MCPS has recently engaged in.