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

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Anonymous wrote:It's rush hour. I just drove by Wootton HS on the way to Downtown Crown. It took a whole 10 minutes. My day is ruined and the wheels on my car might fall off now. How could anyone deal with this daily. There is no justice in this world!

This is simply a lie. it doesn’t take 10 minutes when it’s not rush hour. There is no way you did it in 10 at this time unless you were breaking the law in every possible way.

Mapquest at 5:43 said 11 minutes,

I live walkable to Wootton-I just did waze and it says 18 minutes. hmmm.

And bussing is not driving your own car. It has many stops and detours to pick up the neighborhood kids which adds more time. We’re less than 10 min driving distance from our school but the bus comes at 45 min before school start time to pick up.

Oh I agree with you 100%. My response was for the pp who is saying she got to Crown in 10 minutes from Wootton by car during this time which is…impossible. That’s the only point I was trying to make. I am absolutely aware that it will take a considerably longer time when the kids are on the bus. It’s absurd that
H is even an option.

If kids who can normally walk to school now have to wake up 30–45 minutes earlier to catch a bus, that’s a significant burden especially since high schoolers already start their days so early.

So, everyone should be a 5-10 minute walk from high school because riding a bus is an unreasonable burden?

Not everyone, but for the current walkers it is additional burden

It's not really a "burden" if it's normal for other kids. This is just another example of Wootton parents believing they deserve special treatment.

Which other schools that walkers are converted to bussers in this boundary study???

The trolls here are very unreasonable anyway. No other schools have walkers converted to bussers, let alone all walkers of the school . Yet they claim Wootton wants special treatment. We’re getting “special treatment”, as only our school gets closed.

You act like riding a bus is some horrible offense, completely oblivious to all the kids who currently do it.

You act like it’s no big deal to change Walker zone to bus zone. People specifically want to be walkers. If they’re ok with bussing they would not have to buy at walk zone. Do this to any other school and see how they react.

ask the Seneca Valley / Clarksburg parents - they were incredibly upset during their boundary study - changes were made and they were very upset - few years have past and all is well - this to shall my pass

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Anonymous wrote:Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.

If you are so passionate about this why aren’t you pushing for This to happen at Whitman, which is way less diverse than Wootton. Or do you only care about it happening at Wootton and nowhere else? Why do you think that is?

I’m confused - can you be direct? I think it’s pretty clear they care about Wootton because they are probably in that cluster. What are you insinuating is the reason they don’t care about anywhere else?

Because pp gave a whole history of segregation lesson focusing on Wootton being the biggest problem with this. Yet, There are other schools within the cluster that are far less diverse. Not sure how that wasn’t clear or direct.

The issue about Crown is that they don’t want other students entering the school that they perceive as less. They use high scores as a reason but that’s not it or they would remove all the low preforming students at the school.

DP. If this is truly a move of Wootton, then no students not zoned for Wootton as the boundaries are today should attend Crown. But that isn’t what is happening. MCPS is moving the boundaries at the same time, essentially closing Wootton as it is today.

Changing boundaries happens somewhat regularly. It isn't considered closing a school. Would it somehow be better to move the school and then change the boundaries a year or two later?

MCPS took years to perform a series of Wootton boundary studies, received significant community input, held numerous hearings over time, etc. Again, that isn’t what is happening. MCPS is trying to ramp through Option H, despite significant opposition. One has to ask - what’s the hurry?

The hurry is that a new building is about to open, and how that building is used has long-term implications for the district. There isn't a good way to create more time for a decision unless we want to have an empty building for a year.

Yes, it sucks that it is coming up at the last minute. It probably should have come up before. But the reality is that we've seen several shifts in the last 1-2 years that support this option. Decreasing enrollment and falling development permits and projections. Greater budget problems with little apparent public support for increased funding. Regional instability due to federal leadership.

The hurry seems to be that MCPS wants to move the Wootton students into Crown by the time it opens in the fall of 2027. That way, Crown is filled with high performing students (i.e., transplant, not organic growth) and MCPS avoids the embarrassment in using yet another brand new school building as a holding school.

How are holding schools "embarrassments"? They're sometimes the only way to accommodate students through construction projects.

MCPS had to build a school or lose the Crown land, but one has to wonder why the Crown developers offered such a valuable piece of property for free. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to determine that both MCPS and those developers were eyeing Wootton for transplant. Why else was Wootton removed from the CIP multiple times over the past several years?

You can't be serious... Were you paying attention at all when the Crown development was proposed?

MCPS can change boundaries and build new schools, but it cannot use Wootton kids as mere trading cards to cover up its incompetence and possible corruption.

That's not what's happening. But some Wootton parents think that they somehow deserve special treatment compared to all the other students and taxpayers in the county.

Shout out to this poster for not only the amazing spot on arguments or points made but for also knowing how to break out the post like that

You took the words right out of my mouth!

Signed,
the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton parent that comes in and out of this conversation that is very much FOR Option H

This must be a troll pretending to be a cold spring parent. Cold spring probably has the strongest opposition to option H as they’re the farthest to crown and could be squeezed out to RM because of modified option H. I’ve met many cold spring parents and none supports option H

Are you the same guy that knows all the families in travilah and stone mill, too? Wow! You’re meeting families left and right! You must be so friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:All you Wootton crazies - just shut up

I'm more concerned about the Regional magnets and looks like this thread keeps getting longer and longer and bumped so the rest of us will forget about that.

Actually I have questions about H and regional magnets. Under any other option A-F, Crown (with its state-of-the-art labs) is in region 5. Under H, Crown/Wootton (whatever you call it) is under region 4.

How do we feel about option H handing a brand new amazing STEM centric school to a region that is already well-resourced over the under-resourced Gaithersburg community that is also overcrowded.

Do we care that Option H completely screws over Gaithersburg?

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Anonymous wrote:Shout out to all the Pro-H Wootton families with the courage to voice their rational opinions and who are putting in a lot of work behind the scenes. We see you, and we believe in you.

Shout out to you! I am the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton parent that has been accused of being a troll so I went back to read the beginning of this thread and wanted to point out a few things.

See pages 3-6 where I participated in the beginning of this thread.

Pages 8 - 10 are not me but other Pro Option H Wootton parents that make amazing points.

I come back again on Page 69.

So whether you believe it or not ... Pro Option H Wootton parents exist and we are also being heard.

Right. How come none of you bothered to show up to the BOE meeting last week?

Just a heads up that there is more than one person responding to you. Also because as was previously stated...it is not that deep for most people.

BECAUSE WE HAVE JOBS.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't see any bones for any kind of athletic fields when I drove by Crown recently. Are they just not going to have a football ball field, track or anything else that high schools have? Also it’s so ugly and way too close to the townhouses.

Who cares! MAP scores! Graduation rate!! BUNSEN BURNERRRR!!!

I must meet you. Reveal yourself. That was amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Shout out to all the Pro-H Wootton families with the courage to voice their rational opinions and who are putting in a lot of work behind the scenes. We see you, and we believe in you.

Shout out to you! I am the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton parent that has been accused of being a troll so I went back to read the beginning of this thread and wanted to point out a few things.

See pages 3-6 where I participated in the beginning of this thread.

Pages 8 - 10 are not me but other Pro Option H Wootton parents that make amazing points.

I come back again on Page 69.

So whether you believe it or not ... Pro Option H Wootton parents exist and we are also being heard.

Yes all 10 of you who are pro H in the cluster.

I absolutely love the logic reasoning skills of these pro H parents. Whine about how the oppose H group isn’t representative of the Wootton cluster. But also for some reason think that their band of misfits that make up AT BEST 10% of the cluster (that’s me being generous) some how represent the overwhelming majority of the cluster that hates H.

If yall love H so much, please go to Crown. Leave the rest of the cluster alone. The irony here is when A-D had originally proposed exactly this scenario, the same people who support H was crying and asking for the rest of the cluster to help them.

I don't know who was "crying" or frankly what you are talking about. I also am not sure where you get the 10% figure from? Please try and remember that MANY Parents are not engaged in this fight, particularly the ones that are okay with Option H. If they see something as happening what is the need in being vocal or arguing with the people against it? Not to mention the parents that frankly do not have the time or energy to show up or type or anything. I think that many times we get in an "algorithm" of information that makes us think that everyone wants the same things that I do. That is not always the case.

Spot on, my friend. We call that “easily influenced.” (Clearly they aren’t a Wootton grad)

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Anonymous wrote:All you Wootton crazies - just shut up

I'm more concerned about the Regional magnets and looks like this thread keeps getting longer and longer and bumped so the rest of us will forget about that.

Actually I have questions about H and regional magnets. Under any other option A-F, Crown (with its state-of-the-art labs) is in region 5. Under H, Crown/Wootton (whatever you call it) is under region 4.

How do we feel about option H handing a brand new amazing STEM centric school to a region that is already well-resourced over the under-resourced Gaithersburg community that is also overcrowded.

Do we care that Option H completely screws over Gaithersburg?

For all the people who say they are pro H to diversify Wootton, please do tell—how can you support an option that “steals” a school meant for a community of lower income and less resourced and hands it over to the privileged folks of Rockville and Potomac?

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Anonymous wrote:Shout out to all the Pro-H Wootton families with the courage to voice their rational opinions and who are putting in a lot of work behind the scenes. We see you, and we believe in you.

Shout out to you! I am the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton parent that has been accused of being a troll so I went back to read the beginning of this thread and wanted to point out a few things.

See pages 3-6 where I participated in the beginning of this thread.

Pages 8 - 10 are not me but other Pro Option H Wootton parents that make amazing points.

I come back again on Page 69.

So whether you believe it or not ... Pro Option H Wootton parents exist and we are also being heard.

Yes all 10 of you who are pro H in the cluster.

I absolutely love the logic reasoning skills of these pro H parents. Whine about how the oppose H group isn’t representative of the Wootton cluster. But also for some reason think that their band of misfits that make up AT BEST 10% of the cluster (that’s me being generous) some how represent the overwhelming majority of the cluster that hates H.

If yall love H so much, please go to Crown. Leave the rest of the cluster alone. The irony here is when A-D had originally proposed exactly this scenario, the same people who support H was crying and asking for the rest of the cluster to help them.

It's not a majority vote, trust me. The support our minority voices have shown is more than enough to substantiate the final selection and enactment of H. Misfits? How kind.

lol enactment ok…be prepared for legal challenges that will at a bare minimum insert a 2 year delay. Have fun!

Now who is the troll? LOL

Also. Sigh. America. Can’t swing a handbag without smacking three pending lawsuits.

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I’m within walking distance of another mcps high school, and not one of the options has me zoned for that school.
Wootton is a bunch of whiners.

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Anonymous wrote:Shout out to all the Pro-H Wootton families with the courage to voice their rational opinions and who are putting in a lot of work behind the scenes. We see you, and we believe in you.

Shout out to you! I am the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton parent that has been accused of being a troll so I went back to read the beginning of this thread and wanted to point out a few things.

See pages 3-6 where I participated in the beginning of this thread.

Pages 8 - 10 are not me but other Pro Option H Wootton parents that make amazing points.

I come back again on Page 69.

So whether you believe it or not ... Pro Option H Wootton parents exist and we are also being heard.

Right. How come none of you bothered to show up to the BOE meeting last week?

Just a heads up that there is more than one person responding to you. Also because as was previously stated...it is not that deep for most people.

Yeah our children’s educational future is definitely “not that deep”.

What exactly will change about your child's educational future that would be negative? All I see are positives... new AV equipment, new chem labs, new computers for AOIT, new athletic spaces....new everything!!! What is the downside from an education perspective? All the same classes, teachers etc just in a new location with better materials....genuine question

It’s the people.., their kids will have to be around Gaithersburg people.

North Potomac is Gaithersburg with a fancier name.

Well, the Wootton kids won’t be going to school with the North Potomac kids because they’re at Quince Orchard. They’re gonna be going to school with the real Gaithersburg kids. Shutter

*shudder.

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Anonymous wrote:All you Wootton crazies - just shut up

I'm more concerned about the Regional magnets and looks like this thread keeps getting longer and longer and bumped so the rest of us will forget about that.

Actually I have questions about H and regional magnets. Under any other option A-F, Crown (with its state-of-the-art labs) is in region 5. Under H, Crown/Wootton (whatever you call it) is under region 4.

How do we feel about option H handing a brand new amazing STEM centric school to a region that is already well-resourced over the under-resourced Gaithersburg community that is also overcrowded.

Do we care that Option H completely screws over Gaithersburg?

Is Crown supposed to host the STEM program in Region 5?

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Anonymous wrote:All you Wootton crazies - just shut up

I'm more concerned about the Regional magnets and looks like this thread keeps getting longer and longer and bumped so the rest of us will forget about that.

Actually I have questions about H and regional magnets. Under any other option A-F, Crown (with its state-of-the-art labs) is in region 5. Under H, Crown/Wootton (whatever you call it) is under region 4.

How do we feel about option H handing a brand new amazing STEM centric school to a region that is already well-resourced over the under-resourced Gaithersburg community that is also overcrowded.

Do we care that Option H completely screws over Gaithersburg?

Is Crown supposed to host the STEM program in Region 5?

Yes, in options A-G, according to MCPS Crown is to host region 5’s STEM program. Wootton is supposed to do the same for region 4. So in option H, Crown becomes Wootton and is given to region 4. Region 5 gets screwed in H.

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Right. How come none of you bothered to show up to the BOE meeting last week?


BECAUSE WE HAVE JOBS.

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Anonymous wrote:Right. How come none of you bothered to show up to the BOE meeting last week?

BECAUSE WE HAVE JOBS.

so does everyone else. it was one meeting. I took off work because this decision is crucial.

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Anonymous wrote:All you Wootton crazies - just shut up

I'm more concerned about the Regional magnets and looks like this thread keeps getting longer and longer and bumped so the rest of us will forget about that.

Actually I have questions about H and regional magnets. Under any other option A-F, Crown (with its state-of-the-art labs) is in region 5. Under H, Crown/Wootton (whatever you call it) is under region 4.

How do we feel about option H handing a brand new amazing STEM centric school to a region that is already well-resourced over the under-resourced Gaithersburg community that is also overcrowded.

Do we care that Option H completely screws over Gaithersburg?

Is Crown supposed to host the STEM program in Region 5?

Yes, in options A-G, according to MCPS Crown is to host region 5’s STEM program. Wootton is supposed to do the same for region 4. So in option H, Crown becomes Wootton and is given to region 4. Region 5 gets screwed in H.

This is before Option H, but has it at Gaithersburg?
https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMJHXR4AA9BD/$file/Boundary%20Studies%20Program%20Analysis%20Update%20251016%20PPT%20REV.pdf