Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

But what questions do you have that he won't answer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

Were you even there? The 2nd half was all questions from the room except he couldn’t even get an answer in without rude parents screaming above him. Someone shouted out for him to move on when he was answering a question about safety in the building following the shooting! These people are CRINGE AF, their kids are 100% embarrassed by them!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

So were the live questions planted? Were you even there?

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

So were the live questions planted? Were you even there?

The only live question clearly planted was the microphone snatch at the end to give a plug for the lawsuit fundraising campaign.

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

So were the live questions planted? Were you even there?

The only live question clearly planted was the microphone snatch at the end to give a plug for the lawsuit fundraising campaign.

Yea that was weird - I thought someone claimed on here they had enough money to last years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

So were the live questions planted? Were you even there?

The only live question clearly planted was the microphone snatch at the end to give a plug for the lawsuit fundraising campaign.

Yea that was weird - I thought someone claimed on here they had enough money to last years.

Those last 2 speakers were plants. Grabbing the mic, unhinged people that need to get a grip with reality, begging for people to donate?!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

Because they had 400 submitted questions. He controls the weather, not time.

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

What questions remain? Or is it that you don’t like the answers that you have received?

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

So were the live questions planted? Were you even there?

The only live question clearly planted was the microphone snatch at the end to give a plug for the lawsuit fundraising campaign.

Yea that was weird - I thought someone claimed on here they had enough money to last years.

Did they read the fine print super fast like in drug commercials with all the disclaimers? LOL.

No refunds. Not eligible for a tax deduction. No guarantee of law suit winning. No guarantee a lawyer who isn’t currently disbarred is providing legal advice. No guarantee any lawyer outside of ChatGPT and DCUM wanna be legal eagles are providing advice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

Were you even there? The 2nd half was all questions from the room except he couldn’t even get an answer in without rude parents screaming above him. Someone shouted out for him to move on when he was answering a question about safety in the building following the shooting! These people are CRINGE AF, their kids are 100% embarrassed by them!

Good morning Tom!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They think that the state needed to grant permission to use Wootton as a holding facility. Spoiler: they dont--they already own the building and can do whatever they want with it. They needed to get permission from the state for Crown to be used as a holding facility because of the language in the deed that required it to be used as a permanent high school. Completely different things but just like you, they can do whatever they like with the property they own.

You are 100% wrong. State approval is an issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

Were you even there? The 2nd half was all questions from the room except he couldn’t even get an answer in without rude parents screaming above him. Someone shouted out for him to move on when he was answering a question about safety in the building following the shooting! These people are CRINGE AF, their kids are 100% embarrassed by them!

It’s called running out the clock. And of course, there can be plants in the audience. Again, politicians do this all the time. President Biden was famous for this, as he had written instructions to call on certain reporters with pre-vetted questions by name.

Taylor and MCPS only answered the questions they wanted to answer. As for the unanswered ones, I’d be happy if they answered every question that was submitted in advance. I’m sure there are questions along the same lines, so it wouldn’t be 400 individual answers. Besides, MCPS has had over 3 months to answer some of these (ie since announcement of Option H), so one would think they already know the answers but are avoiding them. The government does this for proposed regulations all the time.

Here are a couple questions off the top of my head:

When did you actually decide moving Wootton was on the table (or even contemplated), and why wasn’t that possibility clearly spelled out as part of the boundary proposal commissioning effort in Novém 2024, or even in the first version of Option H issued on December 1, 2025 (until people complained, requiring MCPS to finally come clean about its intentions for Wootton)?

When Blair was moved, it was part of a long-term, clearly planned project that everyone knew about and understood years in advance. Here, you’re closing a long-standing (55 years) neighborhood high school and moving it several miles away (requiring boundary movement to do it). Where is the same level of planning and transparency for doing something that significant?

For the latter question, my guess is that relocating Wootton was actually part of the Crown development project, just not disclosed to the public until it was too late (ie Crown was 40% constructed). This is because there would be massive opposition had this been disclosed right after Wootton was taken off the CIP in May 2024. Such opposition would have prevented MCPS from breaking ground on Crown in July 2024, and MCPS would lose the land because it couldn’t build and open Crown within the 20 year time limit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

Were you even there? The 2nd half was all questions from the room except he couldn’t even get an answer in without rude parents screaming above him. Someone shouted out for him to move on when he was answering a question about safety in the building following the shooting! These people are CRINGE AF, their kids are 100% embarrassed by them!

It’s called running out the clock. And of course, there can be plants in the audience. Again, politicians do this all the time. President Biden was famous for this, as he had written instructions to call on certain reporters with pre-vetted questions by name.

Taylor and MCPS only answered the questions they wanted to answer. As for the unanswered ones, I’d be happy if they answered every question that was submitted in advance. I’m sure there are questions along the same lines, so it wouldn’t be 400 individual answers. Besides, MCPS has had over 3 months to answer some of these (ie since announcement of Option H), so one would think they already know the answers but are avoiding them. The government does this for proposed regulations all the time.

Here are a couple questions off the top of my head:

When did you actually decide moving Wootton was on the table (or even contemplated), and why wasn’t that possibility clearly spelled out as part of the boundary proposal commissioning effort in Novém 2024, or even in the first version of Option H issued on December 1, 2025 (until people complained, requiring MCPS to finally come clean about its intentions for Wootton)?

When Blair was moved, it was part of a long-term, clearly planned project that everyone knew about and understood years in advance. Here, you’re closing a long-standing (55 years) neighborhood high school and moving it several miles away (requiring boundary movement to do it). Where is the same level of planning and transparency for doing something that significant?

For the latter question, my guess is that relocating Wootton was actually part of the Crown development project, just not disclosed to the public until it was too late (ie Crown was 40% constructed). This is because there would be massive opposition had this been disclosed right after Wootton was taken off the CIP in May 2024. Such opposition would have prevented MCPS from breaking ground on Crown in July 2024, and MCPS would lose the land because it couldn’t build and open Crown within the 20 year time limit.

I don’t get what you want - it’s just constant criticism where the answers don’t actually matter unless it somehow changes the outcome.

For the first question, even if they say oops we messed up and should have said more but then we did clarify because of community feedback, that still wont be enough. For question 2, they plan to use it as a holding school at some point. There is no money to fix it faster right now so there isn’t some grand plan with a timeline. Nobody is going to commit to something more concrete because they can’t - and you will definitely sue them then.

Now what other questions?

There is a lot of pretending that people wouldn’t be going crazy if you JUST had answers and it’s whack.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

Were you even there? The 2nd half was all questions from the room except he couldn’t even get an answer in without rude parents screaming above him. Someone shouted out for him to move on when he was answering a question about safety in the building following the shooting! These people are CRINGE AF, their kids are 100% embarrassed by them!

It’s called running out the clock. And of course, there can be plants in the audience. Again, politicians do this all the time. President Biden was famous for this, as he had written instructions to call on certain reporters with pre-vetted questions by name.

Taylor and MCPS only answered the questions they wanted to answer. As for the unanswered ones, I’d be happy if they answered every question that was submitted in advance. I’m sure there are questions along the same lines, so it wouldn’t be 400 individual answers. Besides, MCPS has had over 3 months to answer some of these (ie since announcement of Option H), so one would think they already know the answers but are avoiding them. The government does this for proposed regulations all the time.

Here are a couple questions off the top of my head:

When did you actually decide moving Wootton was on the table (or even contemplated), and why wasn’t that possibility clearly spelled out as part of the boundary proposal commissioning effort in Novém 2024, or even in the first version of Option H issued on December 1, 2025 (until people complained, requiring MCPS to finally come clean about its intentions for Wootton)?

When Blair was moved, it was part of a long-term, clearly planned project that everyone knew about and understood years in advance. Here, you’re closing a long-standing (55 years) neighborhood high school and moving it several miles away (requiring boundary movement to do it). Where is the same level of planning and transparency for doing something that significant?

For the latter question, my guess is that relocating Wootton was actually part of the Crown development project, just not disclosed to the public until it was too late (ie Crown was 40% constructed). This is because there would be massive opposition had this been disclosed right after Wootton was taken off the CIP in May 2024. Such opposition would have prevented MCPS from breaking ground on Crown in July 2024, and MCPS would lose the land because it couldn’t build and open Crown within the 20 year time limit.

I don’t get what you want - it’s just constant criticism where the answers don’t actually matter unless it somehow changes the outcome.

For the first question, even if they say oops we messed up and should have said more but then we did clarify because of community feedback, that still wont be enough. For question 2, they plan to use it as a holding school at some point. There is no money to fix it faster right now so there isn’t some grand plan with a timeline. Nobody is going to commit to something more concrete because they can’t - and you will definitely sue them then.

Now what other questions?

There is a lot of pretending that people wouldn’t be going crazy if you JUST had answers and it’s whack.

But they will change the outcome. Failure to follow legal procedures means a court could grant an injunction blocking the relocation of Wootton to Crown and force Crown to be used as a holding school to preserve the status quo. Then MCPS can do what it was supposed to have done (ie like Blair). If Wootton ultimately moves, so be it. Just do it the right way.

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Anonymous wrote:People are pissed and deserve answers. If you want people to accept what you call is a done deal, then answer their questions. Obfuscation and evasion only make things worse.

If people wanted answers, they wouldn’t have yelled over Taylor every time he tried to speak. I’m not against yelling at public officials as therapy, but let’s not pretend that the main source of obfuscation wasn’t mostly just the crowd’s own boos.

The problem is that Taylor didn’t want to answer the questions to which Wootton families wanted answers.

If a public official was deliberately not answering your questions, at an event intended to facilitate those answers, you would be very annoyed as well.

Like what?

He pre-screened questions. If he wanted to answer questions actually asked by the parents hm who attended, he wouldn’t have done that. He was trying to control the narrative like a typical politician.

Were you even there? The 2nd half was all questions from the room except he couldn’t even get an answer in without rude parents screaming above him. Someone shouted out for him to move on when he was answering a question about safety in the building following the shooting! These people are CRINGE AF, their kids are 100% embarrassed by them!

It’s called running out the clock. And of course, there can be plants in the audience. Again, politicians do this all the time. President Biden was famous for this, as he had written instructions to call on certain reporters with pre-vetted questions by name.

Taylor and MCPS only answered the questions they wanted to answer. As for the unanswered ones, I’d be happy if they answered every question that was submitted in advance. I’m sure there are questions along the same lines, so it wouldn’t be 400 individual answers. Besides, MCPS has had over 3 months to answer some of these (ie since announcement of Option H), so one would think they already know the answers but are avoiding them. The government does this for proposed regulations all the time.

Here are a couple questions off the top of my head:

When did you actually decide moving Wootton was on the table (or even contemplated), and why wasn’t that possibility clearly spelled out as part of the boundary proposal commissioning effort in Novém 2024, or even in the first version of Option H issued on December 1, 2025 (until people complained, requiring MCPS to finally come clean about its intentions for Wootton)?

When Blair was moved, it was part of a long-term, clearly planned project that everyone knew about and understood years in advance. Here, you’re closing a long-standing (55 years) neighborhood high school and moving it several miles away (requiring boundary movement to do it). Where is the same level of planning and transparency for doing something that significant?

For the latter question, my guess is that relocating Wootton was actually part of the Crown development project, just not disclosed to the public until it was too late (ie Crown was 40% constructed). This is because there would be massive opposition had this been disclosed right after Wootton was taken off the CIP in May 2024. Such opposition would have prevented MCPS from breaking ground on Crown in July 2024, and MCPS would lose the land because it couldn’t build and open Crown within the 20 year time limit.

I don’t get what you want - it’s just constant criticism where the answers don’t actually matter unless it somehow changes the outcome.

For the first question, even if they say oops we messed up and should have said more but then we did clarify because of community feedback, that still wont be enough. For question 2, they plan to use it as a holding school at some point. There is no money to fix it faster right now so there isn’t some grand plan with a timeline. Nobody is going to commit to something more concrete because they can’t - and you will definitely sue them then.

Now what other questions?

There is a lot of pretending that people wouldn’t be going crazy if you JUST had answers and it’s whack.

But they will change the outcome. Failure to follow legal procedures means a court could grant an injunction blocking the relocation of Wootton to Crown and force Crown to be used as a holding school to preserve the status quo. Then MCPS can do what it was supposed to have done (ie like Blair). If Wootton ultimately moves, so be it. Just do it the right way.

Of course, that would piss off MCPS because it would be embarrassed in having to open Crown as a holding school (which Taylor actually proposed) and Crown developers couldn’t sell overpriced townhomes.