How will Wootton or RM be affected by new high school in Crown Farm?

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This shows that you have no idea of how they hire for new schools or the effect on teacher transfer season. Opening a new school is an exciting opportunity for administrators and teachers, especially good ones currently in a school where there are other good teachers/admin with more seniority. The chosen principal (and HR) will hire the rest of the administration and leadership team (department heads) from a pool of eager applicants in January/February, then they will hire teachers from a pool of eager applicants in March, BEFORE the regular transfer season. Essentially, the school will cherry pick the best teachers from around the county. When transfer season opens, there will be many openings at other schools, but the new school will be mostly staffed.

This is what I’ve heard from HS teachers also.....they’ll get a good experienced set and then a bunch of enthusiastic new teachers.

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Opening a new school is a huge opportunity for teachers and new administrators. And the ripple effect is that it creates openings in many other schools for other teachers to shift around.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is should about to get an addition. They proba6y will not be affected by Crown given that.

Part of the Wootton cluster is immediately adjacent to the Crown HS site.

But if Wootton is no longer overcrowded they will be able to argue to stay with Wootton anyways. Otherwise they would delay Wootton's addition like they did to RM

People, Wootton will be impacted by Crown HS rezoning. It's in the CIP planning.

Yes, it’s not just kids coming out of Wootton, it’s also kids coming into Wootton. If they have seats, they’ll be filled with kids from the other schools.

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The majority of the county will be directly adjacent to a new/expanded high school in 2024 and 2025, and there is no reason that the county won't look at ALL boundaries and make adjustments all over (or put in place a new process.) If school A is 200 kids over capacity, next to school B at capacity, and school C with 200 empty seats, they don't bus 200 kids from A to C. They move 200 from A to B, and 200 from B to C.

Indeed, BOE stated that they will be looking at adjacent clusters when redrawing boundaries. This came out of the Rustin ES boundary discussion. They didn't do this when looking at Rustin because that was not in the scope, but it was clear during the discussions to BOE themselves that BOE should've looked at adjacent clusters, and going forward, they have stated that they will doing just this

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This shows that you have no idea of how they hire for new schools or the effect on teacher transfer season. Opening a new school is an exciting opportunity for administrators and teachers, especially good ones currently in a school where there are other good teachers/admin with more seniority. The chosen principal (and HR) will hire the rest of the administration and leadership team (department heads) from a pool of eager applicants in January/February, then they will hire teachers from a pool of eager applicants in March, BEFORE the regular transfer season. Essentially, the school will cherry pick the best teachers from around the county. When transfer season opens, there will be many openings at other schools, but the new school will be mostly staffed.

This is what I’ve heard from HS teachers also.....they’ll get a good experienced set and then a bunch of enthusiastic new teachers.

It really depends on the principal whether they take advantage of this opportunity and do the legwork to research each teacher they hire, or if it’s more of a “check the box” kind of situation because the principal becomes overwhelmed with the process and has no real rhyme or reason as to who they hire. This happened recently with the new elementary school that opened this year. The principal really squandered her opportunity. She did hire some good teachers, but she also hired some who are just “fine” and a few who really shouldn’t have been hired. But she was more focused on hiring for equity than hiring for a good fit for the school and its population.

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I think it's safe to assume that after the Crown high boundary changes, Wootton will no longer be an "elite" school.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to assume that after the Crown high boundary changes, Wootton will no longer be an "elite" school.

Well this is just a stupid comment....how do you figure that?

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What about the rumors that Crown will be some sort of a Magnet school or Specialty school that will pull from all over the county? Anyone heard anything about that?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to assume that after the Crown high boundary changes, Wootton will no longer be an "elite" school.

Wait when was Wootton ever considered elite? I always thought it was the school for kids who's parents couldn't afford Churchill or WJ but wouldn't stoop down to the DCC. Like the Asian Poolesville HS

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to assume that after the Crown high boundary changes, Wootton will no longer be an "elite" school.

Wait when was Wootton ever considered elite? I always thought it was the school for kids who's parents couldn't afford Churchill or WJ but wouldn't stoop down to the DCC. Like the Asian Poolesville HS

It starts with W.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to assume that after the Crown high boundary changes, Wootton will no longer be an "elite" school.

Wait when was Wootton ever considered elite? I always thought it was the school for kids who's parents couldn't afford Churchill or WJ but wouldn't stoop down to the DCC. Like the Asian Poolesville HS

It starts with W.

^^^unlike Churchill, which starts with C.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to assume that after the Crown high boundary changes, Wootton will no longer be an "elite" school.

Wait when was Wootton ever considered elite? I always thought it was the school for kids who's parents couldn't afford Churchill or WJ but wouldn't stoop down to the DCC. Like the Asian Poolesville HS

If you go by test scores, Wootton is pretty elite. I may not be as rich as Churchill, but their test scores are up there.

Also, if you go by FARMs rate, WJ actually has more than Wootton.

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^ha.. I'm not as wealthy as Churchill, but that was supposed to be "It", not I.

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Anonymous wrote:^ha.. I'm not as wealthy as Churchill, but that was supposed to be "It", not I.

It's Winston Churchill.....

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to assume that after the Crown high boundary changes, Wootton will no longer be an "elite" school.

Wait when was Wootton ever considered elite? I always thought it was the school for kids who's parents couldn't afford Churchill or WJ but wouldn't stoop down to the DCC. Like the Asian Poolesville HS

look at the premium for wootton vs richard montgomery house. (all other things being equal)

people consider it a top top school, and are willing to pay to go there.

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Anonymous wrote:^ha.. I'm not as wealthy as Churchill, but that was supposed to be "It", not I.

It's Winston Churchill.....

So what? It's Thomas Wootton. If Churchill is a W school, then Wootton is a T school.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is should about to get an addition. They proba6y will not be affected by Crown given that.

Part of the Wootton cluster is immediately adjacent to the Crown HS site.

But if Wootton is no longer overcrowded they will be able to argue to stay with Wootton anyways. Otherwise they would delay Wootton's addition like they did to RM

People, Wootton will be impacted by Crown HS rezoning. It's in the CIP planning.

Yes, it’s not just kids coming out of Wootton, it’s also kids coming into Wootton. If they have seats, they’ll be filled with kids from the other schools.

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The majority of the county will be directly adjacent to a new/expanded high school in 2024 and 2025, and there is no reason that the county won't look at ALL boundaries and make adjustments all over (or put in place a new process.) If school A is 200 kids over capacity, next to school B at capacity, and school C with 200 empty seats, they don't bus 200 kids from A to C. They move 200 from A to B, and 200 from B to C.

Indeed, BOE stated that they will be looking at adjacent clusters when redrawing boundaries. This came out of the Rustin ES boundary discussion. They didn't do this when looking at Rustin because that was not in the scope, but it was clear during the discussions to BOE themselves that BOE should've looked at adjacent clusters, and going forward, they have stated that they will doing just this

If they did this, they wouldn't have even needed to build another school yet. There are so many ES near Ritchie Park that are so below capacity. Like 70% They could have moved Park Potomac area to Beverly Farms, Horizon Hill area to Cold Spring (most would be walkers) and Montgomery Square to Wayside. They could have moved Chinese Immersion out of College Gardens. That would have helped the cluster just fine before the Crown boundary changes. The incoming classes of most schools are declining in the RM cluster now anyway.