What elementary schools will Taylor be closing?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a serious question. You all keep posting bad things about Dufief. Did you actually hear from all of Dufief just like you are claiming people have not heard from all of Travilah or Stone Mill? Some people from Dufief like the recommendation, some are ok either way, and others just want this to all be over. Simply saying you hate Dufief or that Dufief is a hypocrite is generalizing an entire group together that you have no clue if everyone agrees. Placing stereotypes and beating people up in anonymous forum is childish and pointless. I hope you aren’t saying to your kids “if you ever meet a Dufief kid, you better not be their friend”. All anybody wanted in this study was for their kids to be happy and go to a good school that is safe. Clearly some people have other interests that they have not been able to convince the greater community that makes any sense. Walking is nice, sure. I can’t figure out myself what would really make the most people happy with any of these options. Attacking your neighbors especially in the current environment makes you just as bad as those people you watch on the news arresting innocent people for no reason. Grow up, read a book, or maybe just maybe find a new friend. I feel sorry for those people on here that just need to be mean for no reason.

Keep this same energy when MCPS closes Dufief and redistrict yall.

Guess what? If you’re at SM or TES you enjoy your new boundary too-you are also at risk! Or just enjoy your new bus ride over to the new Wootton 😁

Some of us will be 🚶‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️to Wootton @Crown can’t wait! 👑

Yea per mcps, there are over 100 kids from stone mill that are crown walkers, never mind the fact that some of these kids will need to walk over 45-60 minutes across SEVERAL lanes of traffic during peak morning rush hour.

But omg, at least the cluster can be TOGETHER!!

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Let's be so for real right now... Wootton, with yard signs, campaigns, tons of people at their rally, more testimony slots than any other speakers plus a politician (maybe more than one), plus some building organization, plus their PTA prez, think that DuFief, a tiny ass elementary school within the same Wootton cluster with a few parents, was so powerful that DuFief is the reason that the Superintendent's recommendation is going through? And you continue to attack one school, when in fact, there are some people at other schools within the cluster (Stone Mill, Travilah, probably parents at other schools too afraid to say a damn thing) and other schools not within the cluster (Crown), besides DuFief, that feel the same? And now Wootton teachers (some, not all) are coming out and saying the same - that they want to move?

Wootton - you've done everything you can do to advocate - and MCPS still isn't going to cave to you. They literally can't. But if we put ourselves in MCPS shoes for one second and guess what they are thinking, it might be something like this... Wootton has been advocating for over a decade that their school is in disrepair and even though this new school was meant for other things (overcrowding at other schools?), things have changed (no money, declining enrollment) and we need to address this hazardous situation (current Wootton) so here is a BRAND NEW SCHOOL and we are doing our best to serve the community it was originally meant for (Crown) at the same time. And we still need money to do more for other schools because we aren't doing enough. It's not perfect.

It's not over and they could vote against the recommendation but I guess we will see. But it's not a school within your own cluster that's the problem - they were just the only ones willing to speak up. You are giving way too much credit where credit is not due.

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Wootton people, get a room (i.e. your own thread on this Dufief issue or whatever it is you are sniping at each other over.). You are not the only important part of the county, but it is impossible for the rest of us to discuss this very consequential issue of ES closures when you are generating these endless posts back and forth at each other that are only tangentially related to the topic of this post.)

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton people, get a room (i.e. your own thread on this Dufief issue or whatever it is you are sniping at each other over.). You are not the only important part of the county, but it is impossible for the rest of us to discuss this very consequential issue of ES closures when you are generating these endless posts back and forth at each other that are only tangentially related to the topic of this post.)

This is a “back and forth post”.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly curious. Why the Dufief hate? We are at another Wootton feeder school and I don’t see why they’re being singled out. The parents there are more down to earth than at the other schools (including ours).

I’m a proponent of Wootton staying on Wootton pkway. I’m an alum and so are my kids. It’s been part of the community for over 50 years. But I’m resigned to the fact the plan will be approved as Taylor proposed and all the drama isn’t going to change the BOE’s mind. All that’s happening now is we are dividing the community and pitting communities against one another.

Agreed. Maybe MCPS will start growing again and they will need Wootton to reopen in its original location. Time will tell.

Which is the funniest thing because this either doesn’t happen as some of the other posters alluded to OR it does happen and Wootton reopens without Dufief.

Either way, 👋 Dufief.

Dufief hate explanation: they are hypocritical. If they truly think the Wootton building is unsafe, they should’ve been happen with option D during the initial round. But no, they was pissed as hell and wanted the entire cluster to get behind them so that they can still at Wootton. But when H came out, all of a sudden, its we absolutely need to leave Wootton.

Let’s just be transparent. It was never about safety, but forcing everyone else in the cluster to move with you when literally more than 90% of the entire cluster is against it.

If end up at Crown, I hope Dufief is closed. In fact, I can promise, there will be people pushing for this. You want Wootton closed? Great, do Dufief next.

Karma!

They aren't hypocrites, they are realists. There is no money. A renovation of Wootton just isn't going to happen. Dufief understands this and the Wootton walkers can't accept it. Dufief wanted to stay with Wootton. Option H happened. Stay with Wootton AND get a safe school? Awesome!

It's also not just Dufief. 100's of community members from Stone Mill and Travilah also signed onto a letter saying they support H.

Sorry this is so difficult for you to understand!

Except it’s not stay with Wootton. It’s sacrificing Cold Spring now, and Fallsmead followed by Lakewood.

Dufief and the other signers please go to Crown and leave the rest of us alone.

Anyways back to the topic thread: hope they close Dufief. I sure will be campaigning for it. After all, I was told to be a realist right? MCPS simply doesn’t have money for one do the lowest utilized schools in the county. Bye Dufief! And when this happens, I will laugh my ass off if any of you Dufiefers cry about losing your neighborhood school. Remember, just be a realist!

Cold Spring asked to go to Churchill. I’m sure they will be fine.

And yeah, it would be sad if they closed Dufief but I’d understand. Interesting reaction from you though. You seem like a pretty terrible person to take such pleasure in what you think hurts others.

Why would moving Dufief to QO hurt them? They should be happy to be at a more diverse school. Does the Dufief poster who calls everyone not supporting the recommendation elitist & racist want to weigh in here?

LOL at new QO being diverse…have you even looked at it? 🤣

Of course QO is diverse. We have lots of white population who only care about Sports, and Hispanic population /s

Honestly we would welcome Blacks and Asians to make it truly diverse. We are not Wootton elitists.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton people, get a room (i.e. your own thread on this Dufief issue or whatever it is you are sniping at each other over.). You are not the only important part of the county, but it is impossible for the rest of us to discuss this very consequential issue of ES closures when you are generating these endless posts back and forth at each other that are only tangentially related to the topic of this post.)

Make sure you support Dufiefs closure at the upcoming ES boundary study before we gang up to close your dear ES too. /sarcasm

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Anonymous wrote:Truly curious. Why the Dufief hate? We are at another Wootton feeder school and I don’t see why they’re being singled out. The parents there are more down to earth than at the other schools (including ours).

I’m a proponent of Wootton staying on Wootton pkway. I’m an alum and so are my kids. It’s been part of the community for over 50 years. But I’m resigned to the fact the plan will be approved as Taylor proposed and all the drama isn’t going to change the BOE’s mind. All that’s happening now is we are dividing the community and pitting communities against one another.

Agreed. Maybe MCPS will start growing again and they will need Wootton to reopen in its original location. Time will tell.

Which is the funniest thing because this either doesn’t happen as some of the other posters alluded to OR it does happen and Wootton reopens without Dufief.

Either way, 👋 Dufief.

Dufief hate explanation: they are hypocritical. If they truly think the Wootton building is unsafe, they should’ve been happen with option D during the initial round. But no, they was pissed as hell and wanted the entire cluster to get behind them so that they can still at Wootton. But when H came out, all of a sudden, its we absolutely need to leave Wootton.

Let’s just be transparent. It was never about safety, but forcing everyone else in the cluster to move with you when literally more than 90% of the entire cluster is against it.

If end up at Crown, I hope Dufief is closed. In fact, I can promise, there will be people pushing for this. You want Wootton closed? Great, do Dufief next.

Karma!

Dufief mom here: Two things can be true. We wanted BOTH to 1) get out of the moldy building for physical health reasons AND 2) stay with our friends for social/mental health reasons. Just like the Parkway People want BOTH to 1) stay on the Parkway 2) have it spruced up--even minimally--as they have (rightfully) been asking for for the last 15 years.

I think the difference between Dufief and the Parkway People is that we have realized we actually can't have it all and worked to figure out what is most likely and throw our support at that recognizing the limits of our power.

Actually no, they can’t be. Safety trumps all. Nothing comes above my children’s safety.

If you genuinely think the building is unsafe, you would’ve been all too happy with option D instead crying about having to go alone.

The fact that Dufief is not ok with D but ok with H proves that it was never about safety.

Yup! The underlying motivation is “We don’t want to be the only white and Asian kids at the black and brown school!!” 😭😭😭 Please let our “vewy special fwends” come with us so we won’t be new, alllll alone. 😱😱

+1 ding ding ding

😂 when Dufief kept going keep us with Stone Mill and Travilah, meanwhile literally countless Stone Mill and Travilah parents saying we don’t claim you and keep our names out of your mouth.

Travilah’d own survey shows over 80% oppose H. Similarly, an overwhelming majority of Stone Mill also oppose H. Then when you go to the rest of the cluster, it becomes nearly 100% opposed.

This is why we hate you Dufief. You sold out the rest of the cluster.

Don’t care what you think of Dufief. Good thing hundreds of SM and Travilah also support us. It’s on record and the board has it.

Cool. And thousands more signed the petition against H. I’m willing to bet more SM and Travilah families signed that petition than your letter. MCPS don’t give a rats ass on letters or petitions. They only care about things that support their outcome.

So when they close and redistrict Dufief, feel free to collect hundreds more signatures and see how that works out for you!

Taylor doesn't care about surveys or petitions. Taylor relies on his own personal data.

Bingo

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Close Dufief!

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief always wants to act like they are magnanimous but their initial reaction was to stay with the Asians and whites at all costs. Then when cornered, they championed going to Crown which would be more diverse, but it was just so they could stay in the cluster and as long as their “friends” at the other Asian and white schools were forced to go as well. And the push to join Stone Mill (very predominantly Asian) is also part of this. Dufief, you think we can’t see you but we SEE you. Your actions are so transparent.

Jumping to conclusions. Dufief did speak up in the first two rounds. Why? In the first round they were being split east and west, with their middle school in one direction and high school in another direction. All they asked was don't mess with the cluster and dont split articulate.

The next round they were the only North Potomac school sent to Gaithersburg region in the regional program. The concern was that Gaithersburg doesn't see that community as part of Gaithersburg. They are charged a non resident fee for all services. All they asked for was staying within North Potomac community. They welcomed FRES and Rosemont communities with open arms, as long as they got to be with at least a few other neighborhood schools like SMES or Travilah. Would honestly even be happy with Marshall, or Carson or Jones Lane, as long as it's the kids that they play soccer, basketball, swimming, karate etc. with.

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief. It’s 1/2 empty and 1/2 of that 1/2 is bussed in for special education.

it’s not half empty - it’s utilization is 70+% or so. An only maybe a 1/3 is special education - I even believe it’s utilization is higher than Travilah

So without the special education population, its utilization would be is around 46%. Stellar. Send those kids to Travillah and make Dufief a halfway house for those with alcohol and drug addiction.

Dufief would be an easy closure—they’re 250 kids could just be divided to Stone Mill and Travilah without any disruption to MS or HS assignment.

The Dufief sanctimommies will not have that!! They will make signs and shirts and super duper “cute” videos and baseball caps and socks and tattoo their foreheads and their kids’ foreheads and their unborn childrens’ placentas! They WILL be heard.

I thought it was Karens

Either way, they sound fun and far less shrieky than their Rockville counterparts.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a serious question. You all keep posting bad things about Dufief. Did you actually hear from all of Dufief just like you are claiming people have not heard from all of Travilah or Stone Mill? Some people from Dufief like the recommendation, some are ok either way, and others just want this to all be over. Simply saying you hate Dufief or that Dufief is a hypocrite is generalizing an entire group together that you have no clue if everyone agrees. Placing stereotypes and beating people up in anonymous forum is childish and pointless. I hope you aren’t saying to your kids “if you ever meet a Dufief kid, you better not be their friend”. All anybody wanted in this study was for their kids to be happy and go to a good school that is safe. Clearly some people have other interests that they have not been able to convince the greater community that makes any sense. Walking is nice, sure. I can’t figure out myself what would really make the most people happy with any of these options. Attacking your neighbors especially in the current environment makes you just as bad as those people you watch on the news arresting innocent people for no reason. Grow up, read a book, or maybe just maybe find a new friend. I feel sorry for those people on here that just need to be mean for no reason.

Keep this same energy when MCPS closes Dufief and redistrict yall.

Guess what? If you’re at SM or TES you enjoy your new boundary too-you are also at risk! Or just enjoy your new bus ride over to the new Wootton 😁

Some of us will be 🚶‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️to Wootton @Crown can’t wait! 👑

Yea per mcps, there are over 100 kids from stone mill that are crown walkers, never mind the fact that some of these kids will need to walk over 45-60 minutes across SEVERAL lanes of traffic during peak morning rush hour.

You mean like some of our kids do….

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Anonymous wrote:Truly curious. Why the Dufief hate? We are at another Wootton feeder school and I don’t see why they’re being singled out. The parents there are more down to earth than at the other schools (including ours).

I’m a proponent of Wootton staying on Wootton pkway. I’m an alum and so are my kids. It’s been part of the community for over 50 years. But I’m resigned to the fact the plan will be approved as Taylor proposed and all the drama isn’t going to change the BOE’s mind. All that’s happening now is we are dividing the community and pitting communities against one another.

Agreed. Maybe MCPS will start growing again and they will need Wootton to reopen in its original location. Time will tell.

Which is the funniest thing because this either doesn’t happen as some of the other posters alluded to OR it does happen and Wootton reopens without Dufief.

Either way, 👋 Dufief.

Dufief hate explanation: they are hypocritical. If they truly think the Wootton building is unsafe, they should’ve been happen with option D during the initial round. But no, they was pissed as hell and wanted the entire cluster to get behind them so that they can still at Wootton. But when H came out, all of a sudden, its we absolutely need to leave Wootton.

Let’s just be transparent. It was never about safety, but forcing everyone else in the cluster to move with you when literally more than 90% of the entire cluster is against it.

If end up at Crown, I hope Dufief is closed. In fact, I can promise, there will be people pushing for this. You want Wootton closed? Great, do Dufief next.

Karma!

They aren't hypocrites, they are realists. There is no money. A renovation of Wootton just isn't going to happen. Dufief understands this and the Wootton walkers can't accept it. Dufief wanted to stay with Wootton. Option H happened. Stay with Wootton AND get a safe school? Awesome!

It's also not just Dufief. 100's of community members from Stone Mill and Travilah also signed onto a letter saying they support H.

Sorry this is so difficult for you to understand!

I tried that a while back, don’t think they’ll ever understand. But who cares! We’ll dance all the way to the new safe school with our fun new friends! Karma - so silly. If DuFief closes it would be for the greater good. I sure wouldn’t behave like a stubborn teenager who won’t entertain any kind of compromise. See you at crown, peeps! 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:Truly curious. Why the Dufief hate? We are at another Wootton feeder school and I don’t see why they’re being singled out. The parents there are more down to earth than at the other schools (including ours).

I’m a proponent of Wootton staying on Wootton pkway. I’m an alum and so are my kids. It’s been part of the community for over 50 years. But I’m resigned to the fact the plan will be approved as Taylor proposed and all the drama isn’t going to change the BOE’s mind. All that’s happening now is we are dividing the community and pitting communities against one another.

Agreed. Maybe MCPS will start growing again and they will need Wootton to reopen in its original location. Time will tell.

Which is the funniest thing because this either doesn’t happen as some of the other posters alluded to OR it does happen and Wootton reopens without Dufief.

Either way, 👋 Dufief.

Dufief hate explanation: they are hypocritical. If they truly think the Wootton building is unsafe, they should’ve been happen with option D during the initial round. But no, they was pissed as hell and wanted the entire cluster to get behind them so that they can still at Wootton. But when H came out, all of a sudden, its we absolutely need to leave Wootton.

Let’s just be transparent. It was never about safety, but forcing everyone else in the cluster to move with you when literally more than 90% of the entire cluster is against it.

If end up at Crown, I hope Dufief is closed. In fact, I can promise, there will be people pushing for this. You want Wootton closed? Great, do Dufief next.

Karma!

Dufief mom here: Two things can be true. We wanted BOTH to 1) get out of the moldy building for physical health reasons AND 2) stay with our friends for social/mental health reasons. Just like the Parkway People want BOTH to 1) stay on the Parkway 2) have it spruced up--even minimally--as they have (rightfully) been asking for for the last 15 years.

I think the difference between Dufief and the Parkway People is that we have realized we actually can't have it all and worked to figure out what is most likely and throw our support at that recognizing the limits of our power.

Actually no, they can’t be. Safety trumps all. Nothing comes above my children’s safety.

If you genuinely think the building is unsafe, you would’ve been all too happy with option D instead crying about having to go alone.

The fact that Dufief is not ok with D but ok with H proves that it was never about safety.

It literally does not. I smell your defeat. (Pee-ew!)

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Anonymous wrote:Truly curious. Why the Dufief hate? We are at another Wootton feeder school and I don’t see why they’re being singled out. The parents there are more down to earth than at the other schools (including ours).

I’m a proponent of Wootton staying on Wootton pkway. I’m an alum and so are my kids. It’s been part of the community for over 50 years. But I’m resigned to the fact the plan will be approved as Taylor proposed and all the drama isn’t going to change the BOE’s mind. All that’s happening now is we are dividing the community and pitting communities against one another.

Agreed. Maybe MCPS will start growing again and they will need Wootton to reopen in its original location. Time will tell.

Which is the funniest thing because this either doesn’t happen as some of the other posters alluded to OR it does happen and Wootton reopens without Dufief.

Either way, 👋 Dufief.

Dufief hate explanation: they are hypocritical. If they truly think the Wootton building is unsafe, they should’ve been happen with option D during the initial round. But no, they was pissed as hell and wanted the entire cluster to get behind them so that they can still at Wootton. But when H came out, all of a sudden, its we absolutely need to leave Wootton.

Let’s just be transparent. It was never about safety, but forcing everyone else in the cluster to move with you when literally more than 90% of the entire cluster is against it.

If end up at Crown, I hope Dufief is closed. In fact, I can promise, there will be people pushing for this. You want Wootton closed? Great, do Dufief next.

Karma!

They aren't hypocrites, they are realists. There is no money. A renovation of Wootton just isn't going to happen. Dufief understands this and the Wootton walkers can't accept it. Dufief wanted to stay with Wootton. Option H happened. Stay with Wootton AND get a safe school? Awesome!

It's also not just Dufief. 100's of community members from Stone Mill and Travilah also signed onto a letter saying they support H.

Sorry this is so difficult for you to understand!

When MCPS ultimately screws over Dufief and closes the school, I’m going to quote this “They are realists. There is no money. Dufief understands this.”

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Enjoy your bus ride.

Silly goose. We were always bussers to Wootton parkway but I’m sure the kids will enjoy a shorter ride to crown. What we should say, though, is enjoy YOUR bus ride ☮️

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Anonymous wrote:Truly curious. Why the Dufief hate? We are at another Wootton feeder school and I don’t see why they’re being singled out. The parents there are more down to earth than at the other schools (including ours).

I’m a proponent of Wootton staying on Wootton pkway. I’m an alum and so are my kids. It’s been part of the community for over 50 years. But I’m resigned to the fact the plan will be approved as Taylor proposed and all the drama isn’t going to change the BOE’s mind. All that’s happening now is we are dividing the community and pitting communities against one another.

Agreed. Maybe MCPS will start growing again and they will need Wootton to reopen in its original location. Time will tell.

Which is the funniest thing because this either doesn’t happen as some of the other posters alluded to OR it does happen and Wootton reopens without Dufief.

Either way, 👋 Dufief.

Dufief hate explanation: they are hypocritical. If they truly think the Wootton building is unsafe, they should’ve been happen with option D during the initial round. But no, they was pissed as hell and wanted the entire cluster to get behind them so that they can still at Wootton. But when H came out, all of a sudden, its we absolutely need to leave Wootton.

Let’s just be transparent. It was never about safety, but forcing everyone else in the cluster to move with you when literally more than 90% of the entire cluster is against it.

If end up at Crown, I hope Dufief is closed. In fact, I can promise, there will be people pushing for this. You want Wootton closed? Great, do Dufief next.

Karma!

They aren't hypocrites, they are realists. There is no money. A renovation of Wootton just isn't going to happen. Dufief understands this and the Wootton walkers can't accept it. Dufief wanted to stay with Wootton. Option H happened. Stay with Wootton AND get a safe school? Awesome!

It's also not just Dufief. 100's of community members from Stone Mill and Travilah also signed onto a letter saying they support H.

Sorry this is so difficult for you to understand!

Except it’s not stay with Wootton. It’s sacrificing Cold Spring now, and Fallsmead followed by Lakewood.

Dufief and the other signers please go to Crown and leave the rest of us alone.

Anyways back to the topic thread: hope they close Dufief. I sure will be campaigning for it. After all, I was told to be a realist right? MCPS simply doesn’t have money for one do the lowest utilized schools in the county. Bye Dufief! And when this happens, I will laugh my ass off if any of you Dufiefers cry about losing your neighborhood school. Remember, just be a realist!

Cold Spring asked to go to Churchill. I’m sure they will be fine.

And yeah, it would be sad if they closed Dufief but I’d understand. Interesting reaction from you though. You seem like a pretty terrible person to take such pleasure in what you think hurts others.

I just don’t like self serving hypocrites.

All good. I don’t like elitist racists.

Cool me neither. Not sure why you think anything I’m saying makes me a racist.

Lol let me guess, if I dislike Dufief, I must be a racist 😂. Sound logic!

Shot in the dark here but are you the same poster who felt inclined to drag the “whites and Asians” into the conversation?