Taylor Meeting at Wootton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The teachers overwhelming support the move. That says a lot.

Sign their petition: https://www.change.org/p/move-wootton-high-school

Not even signed by teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a post from Rockville Council Member Adam Van Grack and it captures a video snippet of Taylor answering questions:

The audience was pretty hostile and aggressive, and booed and talked over him a few times. Taylor looked like he crapped himself toward the end of the clip.

What a night!

kudos to him for staying calm. I would've yelled back at the parents, "Shut up and let me talk".

+1

I am pretty upset with Taylor over many things, especially the regional model but also his constant refrain about "equity" that strips that word of any real meaning. But him standing up to these rude, entitled families makes me almost like him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked it up on google maps. 12 min drive from Wootton to Crown.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that the communities around the current site of Wootton HS bought their homes under the assumption their kids (or other people's kids who bought their home) could walk to school, and they feel entitled to have that continue to be the case in perpetuity, taxpayers be damned

Ridiculous. You can be damn certain that if there was a vote of every resident who currently is zoned for Wootton to raise taxes for say $10k per home per year for ten years or however much would be needed to cover $400M with interest I am certain that would fail. Unfortunately we are a county based school system but they seem to think it’s ok to make the rest of the taxpayers pay for a renovation that’s not needed at this time.

I get it, I’d want to avoid change but compounding one bad decision with another does not make sense.

I hope the county prospers and we need both schools in 10 years but honestly the way the state and county are going on taxes and economic measures I’m not optimistic about that.

Taxes are going up, whether Wootton makes it on to CIP or not.

And I’m a center left voter who hates MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Taxes are going up, whether Wootton makes it on to CIP or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teachers overwhelming support the move. That says a lot.

Sign their petition: https://www.change.org/p/move-wootton-high-school

Not even signed by teachers.

Yes, it is. Sure, other community members have signed since, but the teachers are the ones organizing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's a post from Rockville Council Member Adam Van Grack and it captures a video snippet of Taylor answering questions:

The audience was pretty hostile and aggressive, and booed and talked over him a few times. Taylor looked like he crapped himself toward the end of the clip.

What a night!

wow, look who found their way here for some self promotion...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taxes are going up, whether Wootton makes it on to CIP or not.

It doesn’t help. The entire capital budget needs could be massively reduced by having a holding school for hvac projects and by closing schools and shifting students around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teachers overwhelming support the move. That says a lot.

Sign their petition: https://www.change.org/p/move-wootton-high-school

Not even signed by teachers.

Yes, it is. Sure, other community members have signed since, but the teachers are the ones organizing it.

Where are their names? Let's see the list of teacher's names.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are "parkway people"?

The Wootton people who can walk to the building, who value the ability to walk to school above all else. Including their children’s health.

They are the members of the wootton community who are adamantly against the superintendents recommendation. Many others in the community are for the move to crown.

Maybe we don’t want our children to spend 40 minutes each way on the bus daily because it will negatively impact their health. We are going to be the farthest community from Crown. Our kids will be getting on those buses before 7 am. We bought our tiny townhouse to be able to walk to all 3 schools.

40 minutes? Really? It's not going to take 40 minutes to go 5 miles. You complain about the school, and then you get a new school and don't want it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked it up on google maps. 12 min drive from Wootton to Crown.

Cool. Schools buses aren’t Uber

MCPS admin have unlimited hours a day to sit on this site and post stupid stuff and have posts deleted. The only way 12 min means anything is if you kid is the last one to get on the bus in the morning. Otherwise, the ride is at least an hour.

You have got to be kidding. We live near Wootton and there is no way it takes an hour to get over to Crown. Maybe 15 minutes if I miss a light or two. 30 minutes tops if stopping to pick up students. I've lived in this area for 25 years and going towards Crown in the morning there is no heavy traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's a post from Rockville Council Member Adam Van Grack and it captures a video snippet of Taylor answering questions:

The audience was pretty hostile and aggressive, and booed and talked over him a few times. Taylor looked like he crapped himself toward the end of the clip.

What a night!

why this man look that that it messed my whole night up

[Anonymous]

Oh good, the "it's only 12 minutes" people are here. Love it. Please, tell me more about the school bus system you have apparently never ridden. Your kid is not getting picked up last and dropped off at Crown. They are stop four of thirty-seven at 6:45am. But sure. Twelve minutes. Totally.

Now that we've handled that, let's talk about what's actually happening here because some of you are out here defending a process that wouldn't pass a middle school civics test.

MCPS added 16,000 housing units between 2019 and 2024. Enrollment dropped by 6,000 students. That is their own data. They are using declining enrollment to justify moving Wootton. By that exact same logic, Crown doesn't need Wootton's students either. The district built a school for a growth wave that never came, and now Wootton's community gets to pay for that miscalculation with their kids' commutes. Cool system.

And my personal favorite: the Wootton building is apparently SO dangerous, SO deteriorated, SO uninhabitable that students must be relocated immediately to a brand new facility. Great. Totally logical. So why is the very next sentence of the plan "and then we'll put other people's children in that same building as a holding school"? WHICH IS IT? Is it a condemned hazard or a perfectly serviceable facility? Because it cannot be both, and nobody in the pro-move crowd has ever once attempted to explain this contradiction.

Option H... the actual plan on the table, was introduced in December. The board votes March 26. Ninety days. Permanent decision. Thousands of families. A cluster that is over one-third Asian American with documented inadequate multilingual outreach. The community asked for an independent cost comparison of renovation versus relocation. They still don't have one. The community asked for more time. They were told to be grateful for a new building.

The argument that this is just entitled homeowners protecting property values might land better if the district had done a single thing transparently. They didn't. They rushed a process, buried a conflict of interest between needing a holding school and needing to justify Crown, and then acted surprised when thousands of people showed up furious.

You don't have to oppose the move to recognize this process was a dumpster fire. But apparently nuance is also on the renovation delay list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh good, the "it's only 12 minutes" people are here. Love it. Please, tell me more about the school bus system you have apparently never ridden. Your kid is not getting picked up last and dropped off at Crown. They are stop four of thirty-seven at 6:45am. But sure. Twelve minutes. Totally.

Now that we've handled that, let's talk about what's actually happening here because some of you are out here defending a process that wouldn't pass a middle school civics test.

MCPS added 16,000 housing units between 2019 and 2024. Enrollment dropped by 6,000 students. That is their own data. They are using declining enrollment to justify moving Wootton. By that exact same logic, Crown doesn't need Wootton's students either. The district built a school for a growth wave that never came, and now Wootton's community gets to pay for that miscalculation with their kids' commutes. Cool system.

And my personal favorite: the Wootton building is apparently SO dangerous, SO deteriorated, SO uninhabitable that students must be relocated immediately to a brand new facility. Great. Totally logical. So why is the very next sentence of the plan "and then we'll put other people's children in that same building as a holding school"? WHICH IS IT? Is it a condemned hazard or a perfectly serviceable facility? Because it cannot be both, and nobody in the pro-move crowd has ever once attempted to explain this contradiction.

Option H... the actual plan on the table, was introduced in December. The board votes March 26. Ninety days. Permanent decision. Thousands of families. A cluster that is over one-third Asian American with documented inadequate multilingual outreach. The community asked for an independent cost comparison of renovation versus relocation. They still don't have one. The community asked for more time. They were told to be grateful for a new building.

The argument that this is just entitled homeowners protecting property values might land better if the district had done a single thing transparently. They didn't. They rushed a process, buried a conflict of interest between needing a holding school and needing to justify Crown, and then acted surprised when thousands of people showed up furious.

You don't have to oppose the move to recognize this process was a dumpster fire. But apparently nuance is also on the renovation delay list.

I'm so sick of this argument- its so misleading. You guys REALLY don't understand how this whole Wootton holding school thing is supposed to work huh?

They do in fact need to do work to make it safe for the other kids. Guess what, there's no money for that right now. There is zero funding and zero timeline to turn Wootton into the holding school. But they at least have a building they can use if and when the funding and opportunity arise. Not once has MCPS provided any data on when and how Wootton becomes a holding school. My guess? 5-10 years from now.

You should get on boarddocs because lots of the other information you want has been released in the board work sessions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh good, the "it's only 12 minutes" people are here. Love it. Please, tell me more about the school bus system you have apparently never ridden. Your kid is not getting picked up last and dropped off at Crown. They are stop four of thirty-seven at 6:45am. But sure. Twelve minutes. Totally.

Now that we've handled that, let's talk about what's actually happening here because some of you are out here defending a process that wouldn't pass a middle school civics test.

MCPS added 16,000 housing units between 2019 and 2024. Enrollment dropped by 6,000 students. That is their own data. They are using declining enrollment to justify moving Wootton. By that exact same logic, Crown doesn't need Wootton's students either. The district built a school for a growth wave that never came, and now Wootton's community gets to pay for that miscalculation with their kids' commutes. Cool system.

And my personal favorite: the Wootton building is apparently SO dangerous, SO deteriorated, SO uninhabitable that students must be relocated immediately to a brand new facility. Great. Totally logical. So why is the very next sentence of the plan "and then we'll put other people's children in that same building as a holding school"? WHICH IS IT? Is it a condemned hazard or a perfectly serviceable facility? Because it cannot be both, and nobody in the pro-move crowd has ever once attempted to explain this contradiction.

Option H... the actual plan on the table, was introduced in December. The board votes March 26. Ninety days. Permanent decision. Thousands of families. A cluster that is over one-third Asian American with documented inadequate multilingual outreach. The community asked for an independent cost comparison of renovation versus relocation. They still don't have one. The community asked for more time. They were told to be grateful for a new building.

The argument that this is just entitled homeowners protecting property values might land better if the district had done a single thing transparently. They didn't. They rushed a process, buried a conflict of interest between needing a holding school and needing to justify Crown, and then acted surprised when thousands of people showed up furious.

You don't have to oppose the move to recognize this process was a dumpster fire. But apparently nuance is also on the renovation delay list.

I'm so sick of this argument- its so misleading. You guys REALLY don't understand how this whole Wootton holding school thing is supposed to work huh?

They do in fact need to do work to make it safe for the other kids. Guess what, there's no money for that right now. There is zero funding and zero timeline to turn Wootton into the holding school. But they at least have a building they can use if and when the funding and opportunity arise. Not once has MCPS provided any data on when and how Wootton becomes a holding school. My guess? 5-10 years from now.

You should get on boarddocs because lots of the other information you want has been released in the board work sessions.

So Magruder just sits and rots for 5-10 years right? The alternative is Magruder gets to and wants to (rightfully so) go straight to Crown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh good, the "it's only 12 minutes" people are here. Love it. Please, tell me more about the school bus system you have apparently never ridden. Your kid is not getting picked up last and dropped off at Crown. They are stop four of thirty-seven at 6:45am. But sure. Twelve minutes. Totally.

Now that we've handled that, let's talk about what's actually happening here because some of you are out here defending a process that wouldn't pass a middle school civics test.

MCPS added 16,000 housing units between 2019 and 2024. Enrollment dropped by 6,000 students. That is their own data. They are using declining enrollment to justify moving Wootton. By that exact same logic, Crown doesn't need Wootton's students either. The district built a school for a growth wave that never came, and now Wootton's community gets to pay for that miscalculation with their kids' commutes. Cool system.

And my personal favorite: the Wootton building is apparently SO dangerous, SO deteriorated, SO uninhabitable that students must be relocated immediately to a brand new facility. Great. Totally logical. So why is the very next sentence of the plan "and then we'll put other people's children in that same building as a holding school"? WHICH IS IT? Is it a condemned hazard or a perfectly serviceable facility? Because it cannot be both, and nobody in the pro-move crowd has ever once attempted to explain this contradiction.

Option H... the actual plan on the table, was introduced in December. The board votes March 26. Ninety days. Permanent decision. Thousands of families. A cluster that is over one-third Asian American with documented inadequate multilingual outreach. The community asked for an independent cost comparison of renovation versus relocation. They still don't have one. The community asked for more time. They were told to be grateful for a new building.

The argument that this is just entitled homeowners protecting property values might land better if the district had done a single thing transparently. They didn't. They rushed a process, buried a conflict of interest between needing a holding school and needing to justify Crown, and then acted surprised when thousands of people showed up furious.

You don't have to oppose the move to recognize this process was a dumpster fire. But apparently nuance is also on the renovation delay list.

I'm so sick of this argument- its so misleading. You guys REALLY don't understand how this whole Wootton holding school thing is supposed to work huh?

They do in fact need to do work to make it safe for the other kids. Guess what, there's no money for that right now. There is zero funding and zero timeline to turn Wootton into the holding school. But they at least have a building they can use if and when the funding and opportunity arise. Not once has MCPS provided any data on when and how Wootton becomes a holding school. My guess? 5-10 years from now.

You should get on boarddocs because lots of the other information you want has been released in the board work sessions.

So Magruder just sits and rots for 5-10 years right? The alternative is Magruder gets to and wants to (rightfully so) go straight to Crown.

Agree to the fullest and rightfully!!