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

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Anonymous wrote:No doubt that the trolls are out in force, but the need for consolidated message still exists.

The BOE isn’t listening to Wootton at all. That’s the problem. They have all these town halls and ask for feedback and we have shown them we don’t want H and chosen another option and they simply don’t listen or care. It’s extremely frustrating.

Disagreeing isn't the same thing as not listening.

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Earlier post said that the trolls are pretending to be Wootton Families. I disagree . They are not even pretending. They are just openly hoping Wootton goes down even though they derive no benefit from it.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

O naive one it goes deeper than that. Not only did Taylor graduate from there but the man lives there. His 4 million dollar BCC home isn’t getting affected by the boundary study at all. How convenient. Love that for him.

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Anonymous wrote:"the rest of us are ok with it"

Just clarifying that you are ok with A) The Wootton building never again being used for the cluster. B) The Wootton name going away and. C) Combining the Wootton cluster with 1,000 kids outside the cluster.

I realize the benefit of a new building but isn't this a steep price? and of course it is a permanent closure of Wootton. While I pointed out that there are differing points of view, I don't think the majority of the Wootton community favors closing Wootton

Why are those things such a big deal? (And the name is easy to keep if that's important to folks.)

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Anonymous wrote:No doubt that the trolls are out in force, but the need for consolidated message still exists.

The BOE isn’t listening to Wootton at all. That’s the problem. They have all these town halls and ask for feedback and we have shown them we don’t want H and chosen another option and they simply don’t listen or care. It’s extremely frustrating.

Disagreeing isn't the same thing as not listening.

Wootton families are being unreasonable. They are in line for repairs and get regular updates/repairs, just not an overhaul. They had a fit, wanted a new building or complete overhaul now, and were offered a new building. Most of us would be thrilled for Crown. And, have zero recommendations outside of temper tantruming, saying remodel, and don't allow anyone else in. You don't want smart kids in so they should turn Wootton into an exclusive neighborhood magnet and insist on 250+ MAP and a very high GPA, as in all A's with an occasional B. I'd feel terrible for any average student or special needs students at that school based on the posts here.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

O naive one it goes deeper than that. Not only did Taylor graduate from there but the man lives there. His 4 million dollar BCC home isn’t getting affected by the boundary study at all. How convenient. Love that for him.

If he doesn't have family money I doubt he's in a $4 million dollar home. But, again, where would they send BCC students. Blair is overcrowded as is Einstein, so the only option would be Woodward.

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Have you not been reading? Its not going to be all the same students. It will pull from Gaithersburg HS feeding schools with option H. It shows one in the initial option but plans include pulling around 1000 student from Gaithersburg HS zones.

Can you post a link to the plan that proposes adding 1000 Gaithersburg students + all of Wootton to Crown?

There is no link for adding the 1000 students yet but that was discussed by one of the school board members at a local HOS meeting last night. That being said just look up option H and you will see Rosemont Elementary is listed as being part of the plan. That’s a Gaithersburg HS feeder elementary. Then the plan is to increase from there. But it doesn’t matter, even the one school being in the plan will cause the problems.

So Wootton is so high and mighty that a poor school cannot join them? GTFO.

I really hope Fields Rd, Rosemont and maybe part of Brown Station also goes to Crown along with Wootton. They deserve a good learning environment too.

Wootton parent here and PP does not speak for the majority of parents. That was a disgusting comment and frankly I think they don't realize that Wootton kids already come from many backgrounds socioeconomically etc. Our school has plenty of "problems" already. The same way her kid avoids them at Wootton they can avoid them at Crown. Except now they will actually have working heat and clean updated bathrooms that are not in the middle of the hallway.

I’m a Wootton cluster parent too and couldn’t be happier with this news. From our home (Stone Moll ES) it’s the same distance and time to either location. I’d love to have a new school by the time my oldest is in high school in five years which isn’t possible otherwise. Much better use of funds to do this than to build another high school which isn’t needed.

Geographically I believe only Cold Spring and maybe part of Fallsmead are significantly further and even then it’s not like more than a 10 min difference.

No concerns with adding Fields Rd or Rosemont.

This is the most rational post on here. Let's go H!

Stone Mill should have never been districted for Wootton anyway due to distance-so I agree YOU should go to Crown. Crown is 30 minutes each way during high traffic times (which would now include school drop off and pick up hours) for those of us who can walk to Wootton. And much much longer on a bus.

That’s just very stupid of you. Stonemill is not far and only 3 miles away from Wootton. It’s also about the same distance to crown. It’s closer than Dufief and travilah to Wootton.
Stonemill is the best and largest ES in wootton. You think Wootton is still Wootton without north Potomac people? 50% of Wootton is in north Potomac.

North Potomac = Gaithersburg

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

I'm sure Taylor is biased to BCC, but how do you move BCC students? Blair and Einstein are severely overcrowded; there isn't another DCC school in lower Silver Spring, so the only option would be Woodward.

Option 1-4 has all kids of scenarios of moving Whitman and BCC kids. Go look at it and you will understand how they can be moved

Those have all been presented as a result of fait accompli. They started building Crown before really doing any studies or anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

I'm sure Taylor is biased to BCC, but how do you move BCC students? Blair and Einstein are severely overcrowded; there isn't another DCC school in lower Silver Spring, so the only option would be Woodward.

Option 1-4 has all kids of scenarios of moving Whitman and BCC kids. Go look at it and you will understand how they can be moved

Those have all been presented as a result of fait accompli. They started building Crown before really doing any studies or anything.

Building crown made sense. They were given the land and its in a central location.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is this Adam Van Grack who keeps showing up on my Facebook? He says he’s sending “memos” to MCPS like he has some kind of official relationship with them but he just sounds like a typical parent who’s mad about the school moving.

https://www.rockvillemd.gov/government/mayor-and-council/adam-van-grack/

So he is pretty much a lawyer trying to get free advertising of his law firm. He did not go to wootton HS.

Or maybe an elected official advocating for his constituents? Just a thought...

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

I'm sure Taylor is biased to BCC, but how do you move BCC students? Blair and Einstein are severely overcrowded; there isn't another DCC school in lower Silver Spring, so the only option would be Woodward.

Option 1-4 has all kids of scenarios of moving Whitman and BCC kids. Go look at it and you will understand how they can be moved

Those have all been presented as a result of fait accompli. They started building Crown before really doing any studies or anything.

Building crown made sense. They were given the land and its in a central location.

Only by relying on pre-COVID projected enrollment numbers. That’s one of the mistakes MCPS is trying to mask by moving Wootton. MCPS also doesn’t want the embarrassment of using a brand new building as a holding school.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

I'm sure Taylor is biased to BCC, but how do you move BCC students? Blair and Einstein are severely overcrowded; there isn't another DCC school in lower Silver Spring, so the only option would be Woodward.

Option 1-4 has all kids of scenarios of moving Whitman and BCC kids. Go look at it and you will understand how they can be moved

Those have all been presented as a result of fait accompli. They started building Crown before really doing any studies or anything.

Building crown made sense. They were given the land and its in a central location.

Only by relying on pre-COVID projected enrollment numbers. That’s one of the mistakes MCPS is trying to mask by moving Wootton. MCPS also doesn’t want the embarrassment of using a brand new building as a holding school.

Why not? That's what they're doing right now with Woodward.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

I'm sure Taylor is biased to BCC, but how do you move BCC students? Blair and Einstein are severely overcrowded; there isn't another DCC school in lower Silver Spring, so the only option would be Woodward.

Option 1-4 has all kids of scenarios of moving Whitman and BCC kids. Go look at it and you will understand how they can be moved

Those have all been presented as a result of fait accompli. They started building Crown before really doing any studies or anything.

Building crown made sense. They were given the land and its in a central location.

Only by relying on pre-COVID projected enrollment numbers. That’s one of the mistakes MCPS is trying to mask by moving Wootton. MCPS also doesn’t want the embarrassment of using a brand new building as a holding school.

Why not? That's what they're doing right now with Woodward.

Agreed. Crown should be a holding school so that the worse off schools the trolls on this thread say exist can get their renovations. MCPS will have a full Crown. Isn’t that what they want? Or do they want “add Asians, instant reputation” as a top school?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up. Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

I'm sure Taylor is biased to BCC, but how do you move BCC students? Blair and Einstein are severely overcrowded; there isn't another DCC school in lower Silver Spring, so the only option would be Woodward.

Option 1-4 has all kids of scenarios of moving Whitman and BCC kids. Go look at it and you will understand how they can be moved

Those have all been presented as a result of fait accompli. They started building Crown before really doing any studies or anything.

Building crown made sense. They were given the land and its in a central location.

Only by relying on pre-COVID projected enrollment numbers. That’s one of the mistakes MCPS is trying to mask by moving Wootton. MCPS also doesn’t want the embarrassment of using a brand new building as a holding school.

Why not? That's what they're doing right now with Woodward.

Agreed. Woodward is absorbing kids temporarily. Crown can do the same. Why is it so critical to MCPS to move Wootton to Crown and then add 500 students from GHS? It would make more sense to fill Crown with more GHS students and kids from QO, plus holding school kids. This gives the Crown area a safety margin for when it grows its student population. Filling it with Wootton students simply creates another school at capacity with no room to grow.

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With regard to your almighty Churchill comments: You are exactly right. Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school. They are defending Wayside and Potomac. Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do). You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site. Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too. When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools. It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue.

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target

The reality is that the locations of those schools make it very hard to do anything about it without dramatic changes to housing policy. The same isn't true of Wootton.

BCC is in the same type of location as Wootton (closer to high farm schools) but not touched. It’s only because Taylor graduated there?

I'm sure Taylor is biased to BCC, but how do you move BCC students? Blair and Einstein are severely overcrowded; there isn't another DCC school in lower Silver Spring, so the only option would be Woodward.

Option 1-4 has all kids of scenarios of moving Whitman and BCC kids. Go look at it and you will understand how they can be moved

Those have all been presented as a result of fait accompli. They started building Crown before really doing any studies or anything.

Building crown made sense. They were given the land and its in a central location.

Only by relying on pre-COVID projected enrollment numbers. That’s one of the mistakes MCPS is trying to mask by moving Wootton. MCPS also doesn’t want the embarrassment of using a brand new building as a holding school.

Why not? That's what they're doing right now with Woodward.

Agreed. Crown should be a holding school so that the worse off schools the trolls on this thread say exist can get their renovations. MCPS will have a full Crown. Isn’t that what they want? Or do they want “add Asians, instant reputation” as a top school?

Use crown as a holding school, Wootton waits their turn and they add more students to Wootton.