Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary

[Anonymous]

Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary ? I dont belong to Wootton and Gaithersburg community .. but seeing multiple threads about option H being final. Infact, I dont like Option H much since it changes my High school to Seneca Valley from Clarksburg HIGH. So can someone enlighten me about this buzz of option H being the final ?

[Anonymous]

The response is probably out of recognition that it either is most sensible or most likely to be selected by decision makers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary ? I dont belong to Wootton and Gaithersburg community .. but seeing multiple threads about option H being final. Infact, I dont like Option H much since it changes my High school to Seneca Valley from Clarksburg HIGH. So can someone enlighten me about this buzz of option H being the final ?

Because it’s closing Wootton.

[Anonymous]

because it's the only one that makes sense.

THere's no way MCPS is going to use Crown as a holding school while renovating Wootton.

Option H, using Wootton as a holding school makes much better financial sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary ? I dont belong to Wootton and Gaithersburg community .. but seeing multiple threads about option H being final. Infact, I dont like Option H much since it changes my High school to Seneca Valley from Clarksburg HIGH. So can someone enlighten me about this buzz of option H being the final ?

Because it’s closing Wootton.

Correction: Closing the current Wootton building and MOVING the high school to the Crown location.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary ? I dont belong to Wootton and Gaithersburg community .. but seeing multiple threads about option H being final. Infact, I dont like Option H much since it changes my High school to Seneca Valley from Clarksburg HIGH. So can someone enlighten me about this buzz of option H being the final ?

Because it’s closing Wootton.

Correction: Closing the current Wootton building and MOVING the high school to the Crown location.

No, it's closing Wootton as it's been historically known for the past 55 years (almost 3 generations of graduates). In its place will be a mega high school that many parents believe will be unlikely to meet the same level of academic success. This is often what happens when you close schools and mix/match student populations.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary ? I dont belong to Wootton and Gaithersburg community .. but seeing multiple threads about option H being final. Infact, I dont like Option H much since it changes my High school to Seneca Valley from Clarksburg HIGH. So can someone enlighten me about this buzz of option H being the final ?

Because it’s closing Wootton.

Correction: Closing the current Wootton building and MOVING the high school to the Crown location.

No, it's closing Wootton as it's been historically known for the past 55 years (almost 3 generations of graduates). In its place will be a mega high school that many parents believe will be unlikely to meet the same level of academic success. This is often what happens when you close schools and mix/match student populations.

I mean, it wouldn't be the first time MCPS has done that. They closed Blair, converted into a SSIMS and SCES and moved Blair High School to its current site at Four Corners as a much larger school.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary ? I dont belong to Wootton and Gaithersburg community .. but seeing multiple threads about option H being final. Infact, I dont like Option H much since it changes my High school to Seneca Valley from Clarksburg HIGH. So can someone enlighten me about this buzz of option H being the final ?

Because it’s closing Wootton.

Correction: Closing the current Wootton building and MOVING the high school to the Crown location.

No, it's closing Wootton as it's been historically known for the past 55 years (almost 3 generations of graduates). In its place will be a mega high school that many parents believe will be unlikely to meet the same level of academic success. This is often what happens when you close schools and mix/match student populations.

I mean, it wouldn't be the first time MCPS has done that. They closed Blair, converted into a SSIMS and SCES and moved Blair High School to its current site at Four Corners as a much larger school.

Isn’t Blair complaining about being overcrowded and too big? Why are we repeating this mistake

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone talking as if Option H is final for Crown/Damascus Re-boundary ? I dont belong to Wootton and Gaithersburg community .. but seeing multiple threads about option H being final. Infact, I dont like Option H much since it changes my High school to Seneca Valley from Clarksburg HIGH. So can someone enlighten me about this buzz of option H being the final ?

Because it’s closing Wootton.

Correction: Closing the current Wootton building and MOVING the high school to the Crown location.

No, it's closing Wootton as it's been historically known for the past 55 years (almost 3 generations of graduates). In its place will be a mega high school that many parents believe will be unlikely to meet the same level of academic success. This is often what happens when you close schools and mix/match student populations.

I mean, it wouldn't be the first time MCPS has done that. They closed Blair, converted into a SSIMS and SCES and moved Blair High School to its current site at Four Corners as a much larger school.

But Blair's boundary didn't change when it moved to Four Corners in 1998. And it actually got smaller several years later when Northwood reopened.

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn't they send the Wooton kids to Crown for a few years; tear down Wooton, and rebuild it? Then once the new building is ready, the kids would return.

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't they send the Wooton kids to Crown for a few years; tear down Wooton, and rebuild it? Then once the new building is ready, the kids would return.

because they already spent all the money on this boundary study.

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't they send the Wooton kids to Crown for a few years; tear down Wooton, and rebuild it? Then once the new building is ready, the kids would return.

because they already spent all the money on this boundary study.

Well that and allocating money for the six region model

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't they send the Wooton kids to Crown for a few years; tear down Wooton, and rebuild it? Then once the new building is ready, the kids would return.

because they already spent all the money on this boundary study.

That makes no sense. Wooton HS is roughly 295,000 Sqft. Rough estimates to rebuild a HS from scratch are $350-400/sqft. Wooton is in a nice area so let's use the high side. That would be $118M.

According to this article, the boundary study was about $1.3M
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/12/05/school-board-approves-boundary-study-contract/

I'm obviously missing something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't they send the Wooton kids to Crown for a few years; tear down Wooton, and rebuild it? Then once the new building is ready, the kids would return.

because they already spent all the money on this boundary study.

Because they don’t want to give Wootton nice things. You want to fix Wootton? Then you have to move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't they send the Wooton kids to Crown for a few years; tear down Wooton, and rebuild it? Then once the new building is ready, the kids would return.

That would make too much sense, but MCPS already blew their money on lots of other stupid expenses (like multiple boundary studies) so there is no money to rebuild Wootton.