Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Lol awesome use Asian kids to improve QO ratings instead of you know…maybe doing something to actually improve QO’s academic performance?

And why not? Isn't that what they already do with Blair magnet and Richard Montgomery IB?

The Tiger Asian parents will make sure QO is not just about Sports and will push for academics.

Do you realize how dumb this argument is? Blair and RM do it so it must be right? If you actually care about academic performance, especially the performance of low income under-resourced kids, the solution would be to actually fix the root problems NOT let’s bring a bunch of Asian kids to mask the problem and pretend like they don’t exist.

Also—remind me: are we for or against using kids of color as political pawns and tools? It seems like when it’s Asian kids, it’s ok to use them.

Ok let me put it another way without using them as pawns. 2 of Wootton's feeders are closer to QO, so lets move them to QO. Sounds better? End result is still the same. Those feeders have the Asian population.

+ 1000 that will happen.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Lol awesome use Asian kids to improve QO ratings instead of you know…maybe doing something to actually improve QO’s academic performance?

And why not? Isn't that what they already do with Blair magnet and Richard Montgomery IB?

The Tiger Asian parents will make sure QO is not just about Sports and will push for academics.

Do you realize how dumb this argument is? Blair and RM do it so it must be right? If you actually care about academic performance, especially the performance of low income under-resourced kids, the solution would be to actually fix the root problems NOT let’s bring a bunch of Asian kids to mask the problem and pretend like they don’t exist.

Also—remind me: are we for or against using kids of color as political pawns and tools? It seems like when it’s Asian kids, it’s ok to use them.

Ok let me put it another way without using them as pawns. 2 of Wootton's feeders are closer to QO, so lets move them to QO. Sounds better? End result is still the same. Those feeders have the Asian population.

Wonderful. Do that. I would be all for it.

Personally, I believe in common sense boundary proposals. Go to the school that is closest to where you live. It’s not that hard.

What I am not okay with is closing down a school illegally.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Fields School would go to Crown? They live in walkable distance. That’s what they are all up in arms about—rightfully so.

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️

No plausible legal complaint has been provided.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Look at the original A-D. Whenever Dufief and Travilah got moved out, it was Churchill cluster schools—not QO or Gaithersburg cluster schools—that got moved into Wootton. (Wayside ES and Potomac ES, specifically were possibilities).

Then Churchill cluster threatened lawsuits, and BOE decided to recommend E-H.

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️

No plausible legal complaint has been provided.

That you know of lol. Do you expect the legal notice to be delivered to you personally at your home address instead of the BOE, Taylor, and OGC?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Fields School would go to Crown? They live in walkable distance. That’s what they are all up in arms about—rightfully so.

Then some other school from Rockville will be with Wootton - I am not too familiar with the Rockville cluster but I take it they are not as academically strong as Wootton.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Fields School would go to Crown? They live in walkable distance. That’s what they are all up in arms about—rightfully so.

Then some other school from Rockville will be with Wootton - I am not too familiar with the Rockville cluster but I take it they are not as academically strong as Wootton.

Give us back Horizon Hill. They are walkable to Wootton. They belong in the cluster.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Look at the original A-D. Whenever Dufief and Travilah got moved out, it was Churchill cluster schools—not QO or Gaithersburg cluster schools—that got moved into Wootton. (Wayside ES and Potomac ES, specifically were possibilities).

Then Churchill cluster threatened lawsuits, and BOE decided to recommend E-H.

I'm curious how a school cluster can threaten lawsuits when the whole county is being rezoned?

I can understand with lawsuits for moving an entire school to a different location, but lawsuits for rezoning? Even if they did go through, I'm sure they will lose.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Look at the original A-D. Whenever Dufief and Travilah got moved out, it was Churchill cluster schools—not QO or Gaithersburg cluster schools—that got moved into Wootton. (Wayside ES and Potomac ES, specifically were possibilities).

Then Churchill cluster threatened lawsuits, and BOE decided to recommend E-H.

I'm curious how a school cluster can threaten lawsuits when the whole county is being rezoned?

I can understand with lawsuits for moving an entire school to a different location, but lawsuits for rezoning? Even if they did go through, I'm sure they will lose.

I cannot speak to Churchill’s lawsuits, but they had enough merit to get MCPS to back off. The Wootton lawsuit has even more merit.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Fields School would go to Crown? They live in walkable distance. That’s what they are all up in arms about—rightfully so.

Then some other school from Rockville will be with Wootton - I am not too familiar with the Rockville cluster but I take it they are not as academically strong as Wootton.

Give us back Horizon Hill. They are walkable to Wootton. They belong in the cluster.

Ha ha, I take it you are zoned for RHS and you would rather go to Wootton. Does Wootton want your school?

Not familiar with that part of the county.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Look at the original A-D. Whenever Dufief and Travilah got moved out, it was Churchill cluster schools—not QO or Gaithersburg cluster schools—that got moved into Wootton. (Wayside ES and Potomac ES, specifically were possibilities).

Then Churchill cluster threatened lawsuits, and BOE decided to recommend E-H.

I'm curious how a school cluster can threaten lawsuits when the whole county is being rezoned?

I can understand with lawsuits for moving an entire school to a different location, but lawsuits for rezoning? Even if they did go through, I'm sure they will lose.

I cannot speak to Churchill’s lawsuits, but they had enough merit to get MCPS to back off. The Wootton lawsuit has even more merit.

My guess - MCPS thought Wootton would keep quiet and take the offer but since the noise is more, they will have to go back to consider the rezoning of all schools affected by the Crown study.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Fields School would go to Crown? They live in walkable distance. That’s what they are all up in arms about—rightfully so.

Then some other school from Rockville will be with Wootton - I am not too familiar with the Rockville cluster but I take it they are not as academically strong as Wootton.

Give us back Horizon Hill. They are walkable to Wootton. They belong in the cluster.

Ha ha, I take it you are zoned for RHS and you would rather go to Wootton. Does Wootton want your school?

Not familiar with that part of the county.

No, I’m zoned for Wootton in one of the walkable neighborhoods. Not Dufief or Travilah. I rather take Horizon Hill—a walkable neighborhood—moving into the Wootton cluster over busing all of our kids to Crown.

RMHS is overcrowded. HH should never have been moved out. They were historically a Wootton community. If a cluster like Dufief or Travilah has to leave for common sense reasons like geographic proximity, I would love to have HH back!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

How can MCPS stick to me when I don’t live in Dufief or Travilah 🤣. Try again.

Stop using Asian kids as pawns in your agenda. Maybe try to actually help find solutions to the root of why QO is performing poorly.

If you don't live in Travilah, but still zoned for Wootton, what do you think will happen if 2 schools are moved out? Fields Rd will come in and from what you all have posted you do not want Fields Rd since your strong cohort will be diluted.

Look at the original A-D. Whenever Dufief and Travilah got moved out, it was Churchill cluster schools—not QO or Gaithersburg cluster schools—that got moved into Wootton. (Wayside ES and Potomac ES, specifically were possibilities).

Then Churchill cluster threatened lawsuits, and BOE decided to recommend E-H.

I'm curious how a school cluster can threaten lawsuits when the whole county is being rezoned?

I can understand with lawsuits for moving an entire school to a different location, but lawsuits for rezoning? Even if they did go through, I'm sure they will lose.

I cannot speak to Churchill’s lawsuits, but they had enough merit to get MCPS to back off. The Wootton lawsuit has even more merit.

My guess - MCPS thought Wootton would keep quiet and take the offer but since the noise is more, they will have to go back to consider the rezoning of all schools affected by the Crown study.

Yup—precisely. They thought they can bully Wootton. FAFO.