Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

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If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

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Anonymous wrote:Guess the resentful Woottonites should have taken out extra loans to purchase houses in the Churchill district instead of Wootton. Sucks to be reminded that being Upper Middle Class means you share some structural conditions with the Middle Class and not the 1%ers of McMansion Potomac. A tragedy.

You sound really silly. Wootton is mostly middle class - upper middle class and we know it. We aren’t confused about our status. People like us sacrifice and live in small dated houses to get into the district rather than spending the same dollars to live in a nicer home zoned to QO or RM. I and many other parents sacrifice cars and vacations. Yes there is some expensive housing but that’s not the majority by any means.

You’re stilled zoned into Wootton even with the relocation, so what’s the problem? Wootton has been clamoring for a new building forever at board meetings when other schools with less advocacy have it worse, and they now get it. Now if having some lower income students make up more of the student population is the issue, why should the rest of the county subsidize Wootton’s “closed borders.”

DP. Why are you against holding MCPS compliant with the law on school closure? You might have a point if Crown had been built AFTER a Wootton boundary change to include kids from other high schools. That would have been transparent.

But it wasn’t.

MCPS had to change the Wootton boundary in order to fill Crown after it appears that it may have knowingly used outdated (pre-COVID) enrollment projections to break ground on gifted valuable land in the heart of densely populated Crown that it was going to lose if it didn’t. MCPS couldn’t move the Wootton boundaries in time to break ground (it tried previously and failed), so it’s doing so retroactively to cover what it appears had been its plan all along.

MCPS had publicly claimed that Crown was built for the very kids you are championing, but it’s now taking it away from them. Don’t you think a state of the art, under enrolled Crown with smaller class sizes would benefit those kids more, while allowing for the future growth of Crown that we know is coming in the next 5-10 years? Under Taylor’s recommendation, WJ will be significantly under enrolled with low FARMS, so I guess WJ families get a benefit's the Crown kids are being denied.

DP. MCPS has not "tried and failed" to change the Wootton boundaries. There hasn't even been a HS boundary study in the area for decades.

Crown kids will now be going to school in Crown, so it isn't taking it away from them. And class sizes are the same regardless of a school's enrollment. The more students enrolled, the more teachers allocated.

1. There were boundary studies and significant pushback

2. Teachers are assigned based on class size range. 3-5 fewer kids in a class makes a difference. Also, the facility is less crowded overall.

3. Less Gaithersburg kids get to go to Crown because Wootton is taking 1700 spots.

When? For which schools?

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Anonymous wrote:For those that didn't attend the meeting, Taylor recommended a modified option H where Wootton is closed and Crown High School is opened with the students from Wootton + Fields Roads + some of Rosemont - Cold Spring which they are moving to Churchill. There was a secondary recommendation for how to shift boundaries if the board rejects closing Wootton and wants to operate both Crown and Wootton.

What was the secondary recommendation?

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Anonymous wrote:For those that didn't attend the meeting, Taylor recommended a modified option H where Wootton is closed and Crown High School is opened with the students from Wootton + Fields Roads + some of Rosemont - Cold Spring which they are moving to Churchill. There was a secondary recommendation for how to shift boundaries if the board rejects closing Wootton and wants to operate both Crown and Wootton.

What was the secondary recommendation?

There's not a lot of detail, but see pages. 42-44:

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DQZPAX63BCF7/$file/Rec%20Secondary%20Prog%20Analysis%20Boundary%20Studies%20260205%20PPT.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

That’s just too greedy. Wootton cannot lose on every single aspect. That’s too unfair

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

That’s just too greedy. Wootton cannot lose on every single aspect. That’s too unfair

MCPS has been after Wootton for a long time - and targeting Wootton is the easiest way to disperse this cluster of Asians.

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

This is good for Region 5, but bad for Wootton itself and region 4. If this happens, region 4 will only have 3 HSs, and Wootton loses strong stem candidates from Churchill and RM. Wootton has been sacrificed too much.

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

This is good for Region 5, but bad for Wootton itself and region 4. If this happens, region 4 will only have 3 HSs, and Wootton loses strong stem candidates from Churchill and RM. Wootton has been sacrificed too much.

wait, now we have someone saying that there are strong STEM students at RM to compete with kids from Wootton (which sends the most students to Blair STEM)? Go figure.

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

That’s just too greedy. Wootton cannot lose on every single aspect. That’s too unfair

MCPS has been after Wootton for a long time - and targeting Wootton is the easiest way to disperse this cluster of Asians.

MCPS has avoided any renovation of Wootton for a long time. This lends credence to the belief that this closure was planned a long time ago.

There have been MCPS efforts to redistribute achievement for years. Those were primarily through COE, GT, IB and Magnet programs, but those too became a “haves and have nots”, so MCPS is taking things a step further now.

[Anonymous]

It would be an insanely irresponsible financial decision to open a 27th high school with declining enrollment. Wootton families have been complaining about the state of their building for years. They now get a brand new building and are complaining? Maybe it's not about the building after all....

[Anonymous]

I think this whole thread is AI. Just keeps repeating. Including me? Maybe...

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Anonymous wrote:I think this whole thread is AI. Just keeps repeating. Including me? Maybe...

Sadly it isn’t. Neither side can see the other’s viewpoint. That said, I think even the most hardcore pro-H person would agree that the recommendation process was rushed at the end. From watching the BOE’s faces during community testimonies, it was pretty clear they weren’t listening in good faith. It’s likely Option H was proposed by Dr. Taylor only after the BOE votes were in hand, and before any community input on it was sought.

It’s now up to the County Council to decide whether Option H is truly in the best interest of MoCo (and their own, of course).

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

That’s just too greedy. Wootton cannot lose on every single aspect. That’s too unfair

MCPS has been after Wootton for a long time - and targeting Wootton is the easiest way to disperse this cluster of Asians.

If Taylor was dispersing Asians, he would have moved the new Wootton into region 5. Instead, Wootton will be with Churchill in region 4.

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

That’s just too greedy. Wootton cannot lose on every single aspect. That’s too unfair

MCPS has been after Wootton for a long time - and targeting Wootton is the easiest way to disperse this cluster of Asians.

If Taylor was dispersing Asians, he would have moved the new Wootton into region 5. Instead, Wootton will be with Churchill in region 4.

He may be only doing this to reduce pushback at first. One step at a time. Who knows what’s coming next

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Anonymous wrote:If Wootton at Crown is the final decision I hope they do something about the regional magnets too - move Magruder to Region 4, Wootton at Crown still stays with Region 5 and becomes the STEM magnet and Gaithersburg houses the Humanities Magnet.

That’s just too greedy. Wootton cannot lose on every single aspect. That’s too unfair

MCPS has been after Wootton for a long time - and targeting Wootton is the easiest way to disperse this cluster of Asians.

If Taylor was dispersing Asians, he would have moved the new Wootton into region 5. Instead, Wootton will be with Churchill in region 4.

He may be only doing this to reduce pushback at first. One step at a time. Who knows what’s coming next

How so? He proposed a modified H, but what else can he do short of keeping Wootton open?