Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

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Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

No deal - mold is still there

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

So, you want to move those kids into a moldy toxic building? You want them to be a minority where they aren’t wanted?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

So, you want to move those kids into a moldy toxic building? You want them to be a minority where they aren’t wanted?

1. Please explain why they wouldn’t be wanted?

2. Yall know I can’t actually make this, or anything happen, so who cares what I want or don’t?

3. This is definitely a Wendy’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

Wootton cluster parent here, I welcome Brown Station to join us at the Crown location! It would really help balance a lot of factors. Maybe after half of fallsmead gets rezoned to wayside and Fallsgrove gets rezoned to Lakewood. I could see the SW brown station zone and the diamond islands getting rezoned to Wootton at crown for a nice contiguous map. 🤗 🗺️

[Anonymous]

Solution: take the letter C R O N out of the school name and call it The W. Wootton parents now support it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

Wootton cluster parent here, I welcome Brown Station to join us at the Crown location! It would really help balance a lot of factors. Maybe after half of fallsmead gets rezoned to wayside and Fallsgrove gets rezoned to Lakewood. I could see the SW brown station zone and the diamond islands getting rezoned to Wootton at crown for a nice contiguous map. 🤗 🗺️

Deal - you fixed it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

So, you want to move those kids into a moldy toxic building? You want them to be a minority where they aren’t wanted?

1. Please explain why they wouldn’t be wanted?

2. Yall know I can’t actually make this, or anything happen, so who cares what I want or don’t?

3. This is definitely a Wendy’s.

This is nothing like Wendy’s. Read the room. Wootton is exclusively and no place for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

So let me guess. Now all of the Save Wootton folks are going to rise up and try to partner with Brown Station ES peeps to take up their cause? Because they really care about black and brown kids? Y’all have lost me with your creative coalition building. What exactly is it that you believe in?

Not a guess, a GUARANTEE. Whatever it takes to stay on the Parkway!

I am in favor of moving to the Crown building but I will support staying on the parkway if Brown Station can also come to the parkway location. Do we have a deal?

So, you want to move those kids into a moldy toxic building? You want them to be a minority where they aren’t wanted?

1. Please explain why they wouldn’t be wanted?

2. Yall know I can’t actually make this, or anything happen, so who cares what I want or don’t?

3. This is definitely a Wendy’s.

This is nothing like Wendy’s. Read the room. Wootton is exclusively and no place for them.

But it starts with a W!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Truth bomb: When MCPS and Montgomery County itself are so low on funds because of so many compounding factors, it wouldn't matter if God herself opposed these options. Community opinion has absolutely no bearing when the money simply isn't there. And yes, I agree that it is appalling that we are in this spot but alas, here we are so let's please stop with the idea that it is "against the will of the people." Even if this is an indisputable fact (many would say it is not but that is besides the point), it literally does not matter.

So financial mismanagement and failure to follow the law don’t matter. Only money does?

Of course they do-that's not at all what I am saying here. To the extent that there is a "remedy" needed-it would be procedural and not impact the outcome. Financial mismanagement in the past is actually not relevant here.

It is highly relevant if that was the pre-determined reason for pushing Option H over all the other options. This is especially important as the chronology indicates MCPS planned to close Wootton far earlier than it disclosed publicly.

Financial mismanagement in the past IS the reason for Option H. I think all agree on that.

Maybe you just think that because past mistakes were made, another fiscally unsound decision should be made today? Sort of "Two wrongs make a right" logic?

Many of us think that the most fiscally sound decision should be made today, regardless of how we got here.

I don’t think anyone’s saying “two wrongs make a right.” The concern is more that Option H might just be baking in past mistakes instead of actually fixing them.

Saying this is the most fiscally sound option only works if that’s actually been shown. If the decision is being driven by the fact that Crown is already built, rather than a full, transparent look at alternatives, then it starts to feel like we’re just making the current plan work—not choosing the best one.

The real question is did MCPS actually compare all the options and show the data? Is the data MCPS shared flawed? (Some have analyzed the data and found that it is). Or are we just assuming this is the most cost-effective path because of where things already stand?

Crown is a sunk cost. We can't get that money back, so we have to make it work.

Bingo bango

Holding school makes it work too - and Taylor proposed that as an option. Why do that if the data didn’t support it?

Because people didn’t pay impact taxes to fund a holding school.

Shouldn’t have needed to pay them at all.

I guess you didn’t pay them for Woodward either?

Confused by the replies. Woodward was a land grant with stipulations on repaying impact taxes if not used as a school? Or is the PP not understanding the sitch with Wootton at Crown?

Development helped justify Crown, but taxpayers are footing most of the bill—not impact taxes.

Noticed Mr. Confused went quiet.

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Sir/ma’am… this will always be a Wendy’s.

[Anonymous]

Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Solution: take the letter C R O N out of the school name and call it The W. Wootton parents now support it

No deal - no W for Wootton walking whiners.

Walking Wootton whiners?

Whining Wootton walkers?

Walking whiny Woottoners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

I thought northwest hs is better performance hs than qo

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Anonymous wrote:Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

I thought northwest hs is better performance hs than qo

Not the football team!