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

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Anonymous wrote:If they do a total rezone just send Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill all to Crown. Dufief's main issue initially with A-D was that they were the only ones being pulled from the Wootton cluster and it was being done in a way that made no sense. If it's all three schools that are clearly closer to Crown than Wootton, have at it.

Also, it's becoming more and more obvious that Fallsmead/Lakewood care more about Wootton staying on the Parkway than keeping the cluster together. The North Potomac schools that don't really care about Option H have been quiet and going along with anti-H anyway, but now that it's clear no one cares about keeping them in the cluster hopefully they get more vocal about getting their kids into a safe school. Because this sudden change to "actually, we don't want repairs" doesn't help the kids.

Technically, Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill may be closer to Crown HS than to Wootton HS. If they split Wootton like this by rezoning, pull out some to Crown and take some in to Wootton, both Crown HS and Wootton HS exist may work. I am sure Dufief would be fine with this option since they are not alone.

I would say when they build so many houses all over everywhere in MoCo, rezoning is unavoidable.

Yeah, I was looking at the map, that seems to be the case. Seems like Wootton should be folded into the Rockville System(s) for the families that are actually in Rockville.

It is really disingenuous to take families in Rockville, who are paying to Rockville taxes for Rockville amenities and ship them 3 miles away to Gaithersburg.

Pretty simple, take the outer county residents who bought into car commuting, send them to Crown their only issue is likely demographics. They knew what they were signing up for before they bought when it comes to car commuting. Leave the ones in Rockville at Wootton, fix the school with the light attendance, then rebalance Wootton, Richard Montgomery and Rockville High School as necessary.

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Rockville high school isn’t even a part of the discussion. Also it’s no where near any of the neighborhoods in question.

Yes, it is all the affected neighborhoods would be in Rockville. You would need to rebalance the schools. RM is overcrowded and RHS is near capacity so it would make sense if they ended up back filling Wootton with a generally westward migration. RHS->RM->Wootton then a northward migration Wootton-> crown, but only in the outer county areas like Travilah.

Do you know how this works? Clearly not.

I like that idea though. The Wootton walkers are happy because they get the location and that’s clearly the only thing they care about. The more open-minded parts of the cluster go to the new school. Those are backfilled with overflow from RMHS and RHS who would be happy to go to Wootton (though it wouldn’t be “Wootton” anymore). Sounds like a win-win to me.

Wootton cannot have those students join their school as Wootton parents think they are inferior.

They have to pick a lane and they have already abandoned half their cluster who contributed to its reputation. You want the dumpy school on Wootton parkway? Then you risk boundaries being changed around you. But you can walk!

So you want the boundaries to make no geographical sense whatsoever? Clearly a fan of bussing kids. RM makes sense to redistrict some to Wootton. The neighborhoods that feed to RHS are too far away for it to make sense. They would pass two high schools on the way-which is the whole problem with this boundary study in the first place. If they just redraw all the boundaries when Crown opens they can make all the boundaries make more sense.

Yes that’s what I want. I want boundaries to make absolutely no sense and for kids to be bussed to Timbuktu and back. If we’re making assumptions, I assume you are in Wootton’s walk zone. Where a three-mile bus ride is “nonsensical” and once again proof of self-interest. How dare you take umbrage with “bussing” when everyone but you already busses to Wootton!!!! So obtuse. And one of woottons feeder schools drives past frost to get to cabin John. It is already happening. Maybe you all take a turn for once and stop thinking you’re the only neighborhood impacted by this.

That’s why i’m saying the boundaries need to be redrawn-because the kids shouldn’t be passing one school to get to another one. That was kind of my whole point that you seemed to have missed. All the moco boundaries need to be redrawn-not just the ones on the boundary study.

What does it matter? Particularly once you get out of the walk zone. There's no reason to limit things to the closest schools. That just leads people to not care about the quality of the district as a whole.

Seriously? Then maybe we should bus some Gaithersburg and RHS students to Wootton. That will be caring about the district as a whole and improving the diversity in Wootton.

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Anonymous wrote:I am totally against H. The only way to defeat H is to convince the BOE that Wootton should stay Wootton and that doing so is in the best interest of the Wootton Community and the MCPS. I am not hearing that, not even from Wootton parents. If the name does not matter, and the "W" school status does not matter and the historical legacy does not matter, then the argument against H becomes fragmented and weak. Some parents want things to hang on for a couple of years, so their kids can graduate, then they don't care, Others are ok with shipping some neighborhoods other than their own to other schools. This is not a unified message. If the BOE floated something like this for any of the other W schools you would see that school's community in unified, absolute opposition. The Wootton community is in an everyone for themselves mode where portions of what the BOE is doing, are ok, as long as it does not affect them directly. Travilah and Dufief have been going to Wootton for decades and people are tossing them around like excess baggage. So now the name does not matter, the legacy does not matter, the "W" school does not matter, and it is ok to jettison a couple of elementary schools from Wootton. And that is the starting point of our argument? Not very compelling.

Mt.Prospect which is down the road from QO and goes to Travilah is 4-5 years old - they haven't been going to Wootton for decades. If anything, MCPS should rezone them. Just because they paid a million and a half does not mean they get special treatment.

Where would they go? QO and its countless portables are way overcapacity.

Here’s the thing: we will never get reasonable boundaries because MCPS is too scared of communities like Potomac. That’s just the truth. You talk about Mt. Prospect… did you know down the round from them is Stoney Creek. You want to guess where they go? Churchill lol. They are closer to BOTH QO and Wootton but they go to Churchill.

I’d love to see MCPS do a real boundary study, but they are too scared to do the right thing. So let’s pick on Wootton instead!

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Anonymous wrote:If they do a total rezone just send Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill all to Crown. Dufief's main issue initially with A-D was that they were the only ones being pulled from the Wootton cluster and it was being done in a way that made no sense. If it's all three schools that are clearly closer to Crown than Wootton, have at it.

Also, it's becoming more and more obvious that Fallsmead/Lakewood care more about Wootton staying on the Parkway than keeping the cluster together. The North Potomac schools that don't really care about Option H have been quiet and going along with anti-H anyway, but now that it's clear no one cares about keeping them in the cluster hopefully they get more vocal about getting their kids into a safe school. Because this sudden change to "actually, we don't want repairs" doesn't help the kids.

Technically, Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill may be closer to Crown HS than to Wootton HS. If they split Wootton like this by rezoning, pull out some to Crown and take some in to Wootton, both Crown HS and Wootton HS exist may work. I am sure Dufief would be fine with this option since they are not alone.

I would say when they build so many houses all over everywhere in MoCo, rezoning is unavoidable.

Yeah, I was looking at the map, that seems to be the case. Seems like Wootton should be folded into the Rockville System(s) for the families that are actually in Rockville.

It is really disingenuous to take families in Rockville, who are paying to Rockville taxes for Rockville amenities and ship them 3 miles away to Gaithersburg.

Pretty simple, take the outer county residents who bought into car commuting, send them to Crown their only issue is likely demographics. They knew what they were signing up for before they bought when it comes to car commuting. Leave the ones in Rockville at Wootton, fix the school with the light attendance, then rebalance Wootton, Richard Montgomery and Rockville High School as necessary.

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Rockville high school isn’t even a part of the discussion. Also it’s no where near any of the neighborhoods in question.

Yes, it is all the affected neighborhoods would be in Rockville. You would need to rebalance the schools. RM is overcrowded and RHS is near capacity so it would make sense if they ended up back filling Wootton with a generally westward migration. RHS->RM->Wootton then a northward migration Wootton-> crown, but only in the outer county areas like Travilah.

Do you know how this works? Clearly not.

I like that idea though. The Wootton walkers are happy because they get the location and that’s clearly the only thing they care about. The more open-minded parts of the cluster go to the new school. Those are backfilled with overflow from RMHS and RHS who would be happy to go to Wootton (though it wouldn’t be “Wootton” anymore). Sounds like a win-win to me.

Wootton cannot have those students join their school as Wootton parents think they are inferior.

They have to pick a lane and they have already abandoned half their cluster who contributed to its reputation. You want the dumpy school on Wootton parkway? Then you risk boundaries being changed around you. But you can walk!

So you want the boundaries to make no geographical sense whatsoever? Clearly a fan of bussing kids. RM makes sense to redistrict some to Wootton. The neighborhoods that feed to RHS are too far away for it to make sense. They would pass two high schools on the way-which is the whole problem with this boundary study in the first place. If they just redraw all the boundaries when Crown opens they can make all the boundaries make more sense.

Yes that’s what I want. I want boundaries to make absolutely no sense and for kids to be bussed to Timbuktu and back. If we’re making assumptions, I assume you are in Wootton’s walk zone. Where a three-mile bus ride is “nonsensical” and once again proof of self-interest. How dare you take umbrage with “bussing” when everyone but you already busses to Wootton!!!! So obtuse. And one of woottons feeder schools drives past frost to get to cabin John. It is already happening. Maybe you all take a turn for once and stop thinking you’re the only neighborhood impacted by this.

That’s why i’m saying the boundaries need to be redrawn-because the kids shouldn’t be passing one school to get to another one. That was kind of my whole point that you seemed to have missed. All the moco boundaries need to be redrawn-not just the ones on the boundary study.

What does it matter? Particularly once you get out of the walk zone. There's no reason to limit things to the closest schools. That just leads people to not care about the quality of the district as a whole.

Seriously? Then maybe we should bus some Gaithersburg and RHS students to Wootton. That will be caring about the district as a whole and improving the diversity in Wootton.

First: Wootton is actually one of the most diverse schools in the county. O wait are you not counting Asians as diverse? Not the right kind of minority for you? Are we supposed to or not supposed to see color?

Second: For the love of god, moving high performing kids around doesn’t actually solve education issues at their root. Maybe instead of wasting god knows how much money on bussing and boundary studies, we tackle the root issue of increasing the education performance at lower performing schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Can they simply add a “W” to the new school?

This comment took me out. Welcome to WCrown High School 🤣.

Or maybe Wu-Crown??

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Anonymous wrote:If they do a total rezone just send Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill all to Crown. Dufief's main issue initially with A-D was that they were the only ones being pulled from the Wootton cluster and it was being done in a way that made no sense. If it's all three schools that are clearly closer to Crown than Wootton, have at it.

Also, it's becoming more and more obvious that Fallsmead/Lakewood care more about Wootton staying on the Parkway than keeping the cluster together. The North Potomac schools that don't really care about Option H have been quiet and going along with anti-H anyway, but now that it's clear no one cares about keeping them in the cluster hopefully they get more vocal about getting their kids into a safe school. Because this sudden change to "actually, we don't want repairs" doesn't help the kids.

Technically, Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill may be closer to Crown HS than to Wootton HS. If they split Wootton like this by rezoning, pull out some to Crown and take some in to Wootton, both Crown HS and Wootton HS exist may work. I am sure Dufief would be fine with this option since they are not alone.

I would say when they build so many houses all over everywhere in MoCo, rezoning is unavoidable.

Yeah, I was looking at the map, that seems to be the case. Seems like Wootton should be folded into the Rockville System(s) for the families that are actually in Rockville.

It is really disingenuous to take families in Rockville, who are paying to Rockville taxes for Rockville amenities and ship them 3 miles away to Gaithersburg.

Pretty simple, take the outer county residents who bought into car commuting, send them to Crown their only issue is likely demographics. They knew what they were signing up for before they bought when it comes to car commuting. Leave the ones in Rockville at Wootton, fix the school with the light attendance, then rebalance Wootton, Richard Montgomery and Rockville High School as necessary.

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Rockville high school isn’t even a part of the discussion. Also it’s no where near any of the neighborhoods in question.

Yes, it is all the affected neighborhoods would be in Rockville. You would need to rebalance the schools. RM is overcrowded and RHS is near capacity so it would make sense if they ended up back filling Wootton with a generally westward migration. RHS->RM->Wootton then a northward migration Wootton-> crown, but only in the outer county areas like Travilah.

Do you know how this works? Clearly not.

I like that idea though. The Wootton walkers are happy because they get the location and that’s clearly the only thing they care about. The more open-minded parts of the cluster go to the new school. Those are backfilled with overflow from RMHS and RHS who would be happy to go to Wootton (though it wouldn’t be “Wootton” anymore). Sounds like a win-win to me.

Wootton cannot have those students join their school as Wootton parents think they are inferior.

They have to pick a lane and they have already abandoned half their cluster who contributed to its reputation. You want the dumpy school on Wootton parkway? Then you risk boundaries being changed around you. But you can walk!

So you want the boundaries to make no geographical sense whatsoever? Clearly a fan of bussing kids. RM makes sense to redistrict some to Wootton. The neighborhoods that feed to RHS are too far away for it to make sense. They would pass two high schools on the way-which is the whole problem with this boundary study in the first place. If they just redraw all the boundaries when Crown opens they can make all the boundaries make more sense.

Yes that’s what I want. I want boundaries to make absolutely no sense and for kids to be bussed to Timbuktu and back. If we’re making assumptions, I assume you are in Wootton’s walk zone. Where a three-mile bus ride is “nonsensical” and once again proof of self-interest. How dare you take umbrage with “bussing” when everyone but you already busses to Wootton!!!! So obtuse. And one of woottons feeder schools drives past frost to get to cabin John. It is already happening. Maybe you all take a turn for once and stop thinking you’re the only neighborhood impacted by this.

That’s why i’m saying the boundaries need to be redrawn-because the kids shouldn’t be passing one school to get to another one. That was kind of my whole point that you seemed to have missed. All the moco boundaries need to be redrawn-not just the ones on the boundary study.

What does it matter? Particularly once you get out of the walk zone. There's no reason to limit things to the closest schools. That just leads people to not care about the quality of the district as a whole.

Seriously? Then maybe we should bus some Gaithersburg and RHS students to Wootton. That will be caring about the district as a whole and improving the diversity in Wootton.

First: Wootton is actually one of the most diverse schools in the county. O wait are you not counting Asians as diverse? Not the right kind of minority for you? Are we supposed to or not supposed to see color?

Second: For the love of god, moving high performing kids around doesn’t actually solve education issues at their root. Maybe instead of wasting god knows how much money on bussing and boundary studies, we tackle the root issue of increasing the education performance at lower performing schools?

So, leave the high performing kids in your failing building and any low performers can go to Crown since only high performers are welcome at Wootton.

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Anonymous wrote:Can they simply add a “W” to the new school?

This comment took me out. Welcome to WCrown High School 🤣.

Or maybe Wu-Crown??

Between Wu-Crown and trans women the thread is becoming more deranged by the second. Par for the course, as each boundary option is also getting more and more deranged 🍿

I propose Wu-Crown Junior High School so no one feels left out.

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Anonymous wrote:If they do a total rezone just send Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill all to Crown. Dufief's main issue initially with A-D was that they were the only ones being pulled from the Wootton cluster and it was being done in a way that made no sense. If it's all three schools that are clearly closer to Crown than Wootton, have at it.

Also, it's becoming more and more obvious that Fallsmead/Lakewood care more about Wootton staying on the Parkway than keeping the cluster together. The North Potomac schools that don't really care about Option H have been quiet and going along with anti-H anyway, but now that it's clear no one cares about keeping them in the cluster hopefully they get more vocal about getting their kids into a safe school. Because this sudden change to "actually, we don't want repairs" doesn't help the kids.

Technically, Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill may be closer to Crown HS than to Wootton HS. If they split Wootton like this by rezoning, pull out some to Crown and take some in to Wootton, both Crown HS and Wootton HS exist may work. I am sure Dufief would be fine with this option since they are not alone.

I would say when they build so many houses all over everywhere in MoCo, rezoning is unavoidable.

Yeah, I was looking at the map, that seems to be the case. Seems like Wootton should be folded into the Rockville System(s) for the families that are actually in Rockville.

It is really disingenuous to take families in Rockville, who are paying to Rockville taxes for Rockville amenities and ship them 3 miles away to Gaithersburg.

Pretty simple, take the outer county residents who bought into car commuting, send them to Crown their only issue is likely demographics. They knew what they were signing up for before they bought when it comes to car commuting. Leave the ones in Rockville at Wootton, fix the school with the light attendance, then rebalance Wootton, Richard Montgomery and Rockville High School as necessary.

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Rockville high school isn’t even a part of the discussion. Also it’s no where near any of the neighborhoods in question.

Yes, it is all the affected neighborhoods would be in Rockville. You would need to rebalance the schools. RM is overcrowded and RHS is near capacity so it would make sense if they ended up back filling Wootton with a generally westward migration. RHS->RM->Wootton then a northward migration Wootton-> crown, but only in the outer county areas like Travilah.

Do you know how this works? Clearly not.

I like that idea though. The Wootton walkers are happy because they get the location and that’s clearly the only thing they care about. The more open-minded parts of the cluster go to the new school. Those are backfilled with overflow from RMHS and RHS who would be happy to go to Wootton (though it wouldn’t be “Wootton” anymore). Sounds like a win-win to me.

Wootton cannot have those students join their school as Wootton parents think they are inferior.

They have to pick a lane and they have already abandoned half their cluster who contributed to its reputation. You want the dumpy school on Wootton parkway? Then you risk boundaries being changed around you. But you can walk!

So you want the boundaries to make no geographical sense whatsoever? Clearly a fan of bussing kids. RM makes sense to redistrict some to Wootton. The neighborhoods that feed to RHS are too far away for it to make sense. They would pass two high schools on the way-which is the whole problem with this boundary study in the first place. If they just redraw all the boundaries when Crown opens they can make all the boundaries make more sense.

Yes that’s what I want. I want boundaries to make absolutely no sense and for kids to be bussed to Timbuktu and back. If we’re making assumptions, I assume you are in Wootton’s walk zone. Where a three-mile bus ride is “nonsensical” and once again proof of self-interest. How dare you take umbrage with “bussing” when everyone but you already busses to Wootton!!!! So obtuse. And one of woottons feeder schools drives past frost to get to cabin John. It is already happening. Maybe you all take a turn for once and stop thinking you’re the only neighborhood impacted by this.

That’s why i’m saying the boundaries need to be redrawn-because the kids shouldn’t be passing one school to get to another one. That was kind of my whole point that you seemed to have missed. All the moco boundaries need to be redrawn-not just the ones on the boundary study.

What does it matter? Particularly once you get out of the walk zone. There's no reason to limit things to the closest schools. That just leads people to not care about the quality of the district as a whole.

Seriously? Then maybe we should bus some Gaithersburg and RHS students to Wootton. That will be caring about the district as a whole and improving the diversity in Wootton.

First: Wootton is actually one of the most diverse schools in the county. O wait are you not counting Asians as diverse? Not the right kind of minority for you? Are we supposed to or not supposed to see color?

Second: For the love of god, moving high performing kids around doesn’t actually solve education issues at their root. Maybe instead of wasting god knows how much money on bussing and boundary studies, we tackle the root issue of increasing the education performance at lower performing schools?

So, leave the high performing kids in your failing building and any low performers can go to Crown since only high performers are welcome at Wootton.

I see we’re back to the whole high performing means we should hate on Wootton. Does this mean you anti-Wootton folks have given up and realized option H is illegal?

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Anonymous wrote:Can they simply add a “W” to the new school?

This comment took me out. Welcome to WCrown High School 🤣.

Or maybe Wu-Crown??

Between Wu-Crown and trans women the thread is becoming more deranged by the second. Par for the course, as each boundary option is also getting more and more deranged 🍿

I propose Wu-Crown Junior High School so no one feels left out.

That’s it! I found the winning proposal. Option I: Wu-Tang Crown

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Anonymous wrote:Can they simply add a “W” to the new school?

This comment took me out. Welcome to WCrown High School 🤣.

Or maybe Wu-Crown??

Between Wu-Crown and trans women the thread is becoming more deranged by the second. Par for the course, as each boundary option is also getting more and more deranged 🍿

I propose Wu-Crown Junior High School so no one feels left out.

That’s it! I found the winning proposal. Option I: Wu-Tang Crown

Tang is still off.

Maybe Wu-Ten Crown?

or Wu-Deng Crown?

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Anonymous wrote:Can they simply add a “W” to the new school?

This comment took me out. Welcome to WCrown High School 🤣.

Or maybe Wu-Crown??

Between Wu-Crown and trans women the thread is becoming more deranged by the second. Par for the course, as each boundary option is also getting more and more deranged 🍿

I propose Wu-Crown Junior High School so no one feels left out.

Junior high is Middle school. Maybe crown should be middle school then

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Wow, there actually is a Black music group called Wu-Tang Clan.

In that case, Wu-Tang Crown High School is perfect. It covers all the bases.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, there actually is a Black music group called Wu-Tang Clan.

In that case, Wu-Tang Crown High School is perfect. It covers all the bases.

I’m glad at least one other person understood the reference!

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Anonymous wrote:If they do a total rezone just send Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill all to Crown. Dufief's main issue initially with A-D was that they were the only ones being pulled from the Wootton cluster and it was being done in a way that made no sense. If it's all three schools that are clearly closer to Crown than Wootton, have at it.

Also, it's becoming more and more obvious that Fallsmead/Lakewood care more about Wootton staying on the Parkway than keeping the cluster together. The North Potomac schools that don't really care about Option H have been quiet and going along with anti-H anyway, but now that it's clear no one cares about keeping them in the cluster hopefully they get more vocal about getting their kids into a safe school. Because this sudden change to "actually, we don't want repairs" doesn't help the kids.

Technically, Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill may be closer to Crown HS than to Wootton HS. If they split Wootton like this by rezoning, pull out some to Crown and take some in to Wootton, both Crown HS and Wootton HS exist may work. I am sure Dufief would be fine with this option since they are not alone.

I would say when they build so many houses all over everywhere in MoCo, rezoning is unavoidable.

Yeah, I was looking at the map, that seems to be the case. Seems like Wootton should be folded into the Rockville System(s) for the families that are actually in Rockville.

It is really disingenuous to take families in Rockville, who are paying to Rockville taxes for Rockville amenities and ship them 3 miles away to Gaithersburg.

Pretty simple, take the outer county residents who bought into car commuting, send them to Crown their only issue is likely demographics. They knew what they were signing up for before they bought when it comes to car commuting. Leave the ones in Rockville at Wootton, fix the school with the light attendance, then rebalance Wootton, Richard Montgomery and Rockville High School as necessary.

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Rockville high school isn’t even a part of the discussion. Also it’s no where near any of the neighborhoods in question.

Yes, it is all the affected neighborhoods would be in Rockville. You would need to rebalance the schools. RM is overcrowded and RHS is near capacity so it would make sense if they ended up back filling Wootton with a generally westward migration. RHS->RM->Wootton then a northward migration Wootton-> crown, but only in the outer county areas like Travilah.

Do you know how this works? Clearly not.

I like that idea though. The Wootton walkers are happy because they get the location and that’s clearly the only thing they care about. The more open-minded parts of the cluster go to the new school. Those are backfilled with overflow from RMHS and RHS who would be happy to go to Wootton (though it wouldn’t be “Wootton” anymore). Sounds like a win-win to me.

Wootton cannot have those students join their school as Wootton parents think they are inferior.

They have to pick a lane and they have already abandoned half their cluster who contributed to its reputation. You want the dumpy school on Wootton parkway? Then you risk boundaries being changed around you. But you can walk!

So you want the boundaries to make no geographical sense whatsoever? Clearly a fan of bussing kids. RM makes sense to redistrict some to Wootton. The neighborhoods that feed to RHS are too far away for it to make sense. They would pass two high schools on the way-which is the whole problem with this boundary study in the first place. If they just redraw all the boundaries when Crown opens they can make all the boundaries make more sense.

Yes that’s what I want. I want boundaries to make absolutely no sense and for kids to be bussed to Timbuktu and back. If we’re making assumptions, I assume you are in Wootton’s walk zone. Where a three-mile bus ride is “nonsensical” and once again proof of self-interest. How dare you take umbrage with “bussing” when everyone but you already busses to Wootton!!!! So obtuse. And one of woottons feeder schools drives past frost to get to cabin John. It is already happening. Maybe you all take a turn for once and stop thinking you’re the only neighborhood impacted by this.

That’s why i’m saying the boundaries need to be redrawn-because the kids shouldn’t be passing one school to get to another one. That was kind of my whole point that you seemed to have missed. All the moco boundaries need to be redrawn-not just the ones on the boundary study.

What does it matter? Particularly once you get out of the walk zone. There's no reason to limit things to the closest schools. That just leads people to not care about the quality of the district as a whole.

Seriously? Then maybe we should bus some Gaithersburg and RHS students to Wootton. That will be caring about the district as a whole and improving the diversity in Wootton.

First: Wootton is actually one of the most diverse schools in the county. O wait are you not counting Asians as diverse? Not the right kind of minority for you? Are we supposed to or not supposed to see color?

Second: For the love of god, moving high performing kids around doesn’t actually solve education issues at their root. Maybe instead of wasting god knows how much money on bussing and boundary studies, we tackle the root issue of increasing the education performance at lower performing schools?

No it’s not diverse.

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Anonymous wrote:If they do a total rezone just send Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill all to Crown. Dufief's main issue initially with A-D was that they were the only ones being pulled from the Wootton cluster and it was being done in a way that made no sense. If it's all three schools that are clearly closer to Crown than Wootton, have at it.

Also, it's becoming more and more obvious that Fallsmead/Lakewood care more about Wootton staying on the Parkway than keeping the cluster together. The North Potomac schools that don't really care about Option H have been quiet and going along with anti-H anyway, but now that it's clear no one cares about keeping them in the cluster hopefully they get more vocal about getting their kids into a safe school. Because this sudden change to "actually, we don't want repairs" doesn't help the kids.

Technically, Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill may be closer to Crown HS than to Wootton HS. If they split Wootton like this by rezoning, pull out some to Crown and take some in to Wootton, both Crown HS and Wootton HS exist may work. I am sure Dufief would be fine with this option since they are not alone.

I would say when they build so many houses all over everywhere in MoCo, rezoning is unavoidable.

Yeah, I was looking at the map, that seems to be the case. Seems like Wootton should be folded into the Rockville System(s) for the families that are actually in Rockville.

It is really disingenuous to take families in Rockville, who are paying to Rockville taxes for Rockville amenities and ship them 3 miles away to Gaithersburg.

Pretty simple, take the outer county residents who bought into car commuting, send them to Crown their only issue is likely demographics. They knew what they were signing up for before they bought when it comes to car commuting. Leave the ones in Rockville at Wootton, fix the school with the light attendance, then rebalance Wootton, Richard Montgomery and Rockville High School as necessary.

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Rockville high school isn’t even a part of the discussion. Also it’s no where near any of the neighborhoods in question.

Yes, it is all the affected neighborhoods would be in Rockville. You would need to rebalance the schools. RM is overcrowded and RHS is near capacity so it would make sense if they ended up back filling Wootton with a generally westward migration. RHS->RM->Wootton then a northward migration Wootton-> crown, but only in the outer county areas like Travilah.

Do you know how this works? Clearly not.

I like that idea though. The Wootton walkers are happy because they get the location and that’s clearly the only thing they care about. The more open-minded parts of the cluster go to the new school. Those are backfilled with overflow from RMHS and RHS who would be happy to go to Wootton (though it wouldn’t be “Wootton” anymore). Sounds like a win-win to me.

Wootton cannot have those students join their school as Wootton parents think they are inferior.

They have to pick a lane and they have already abandoned half their cluster who contributed to its reputation. You want the dumpy school on Wootton parkway? Then you risk boundaries being changed around you. But you can walk!

So you want the boundaries to make no geographical sense whatsoever? Clearly a fan of bussing kids. RM makes sense to redistrict some to Wootton. The neighborhoods that feed to RHS are too far away for it to make sense. They would pass two high schools on the way-which is the whole problem with this boundary study in the first place. If they just redraw all the boundaries when Crown opens they can make all the boundaries make more sense.

Yes that’s what I want. I want boundaries to make absolutely no sense and for kids to be bussed to Timbuktu and back. If we’re making assumptions, I assume you are in Wootton’s walk zone. Where a three-mile bus ride is “nonsensical” and once again proof of self-interest. How dare you take umbrage with “bussing” when everyone but you already busses to Wootton!!!! So obtuse. And one of woottons feeder schools drives past frost to get to cabin John. It is already happening. Maybe you all take a turn for once and stop thinking you’re the only neighborhood impacted by this.

That’s why i’m saying the boundaries need to be redrawn-because the kids shouldn’t be passing one school to get to another one. That was kind of my whole point that you seemed to have missed. All the moco boundaries need to be redrawn-not just the ones on the boundary study.

What does it matter? Particularly once you get out of the walk zone. There's no reason to limit things to the closest schools. That just leads people to not care about the quality of the district as a whole.

Seriously? Then maybe we should bus some Gaithersburg and RHS students to Wootton. That will be caring about the district as a whole and improving the diversity in Wootton.

First: Wootton is actually one of the most diverse schools in the county. O wait are you not counting Asians as diverse? Not the right kind of minority for you? Are we supposed to or not supposed to see color?

Second: For the love of god, moving high performing kids around doesn’t actually solve education issues at their root. Maybe instead of wasting god knows how much money on bussing and boundary studies, we tackle the root issue of increasing the education performance at lower performing schools?

So, leave the high performing kids in your failing building and any low performers can go to Crown since only high performers are welcome at Wootton.

I see we’re back to the whole high performing means we should hate on Wootton. Does this mean you anti-Wootton folks have given up and realized option H is illegal?

No it means you are obsessed with only high performers so the mid to low performers should be moved to other schools as they are not welcome. We are a kind school. We will take them.

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This is not diverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Wootton_High_School#:~:text=During%2520the%25202022%E2%80%932023%2520school%2520year%252C%2520the%2520school's,38.3%2525%2520Asian%252C%252011.8%2525%2520Black%252C%2520and%25208.2%2525%2520Hispanic.

data.
Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity 2022–2023[2]
White Asian Black Hispanic Two or More Races American Indian/Alaska Native
711 732 224 157 80 4
During the 2022–2023 school year, the school's racial composition was 37.3% white, 38.3% Asian, 11.8% Black, and 8.2% Hispanic.[8] Multiracial students made up less than 5% of the student body, as did Native and Pacific Islander American students.[8] The overall size of the student body was 1,911.[8]