No, I mean Gaithersburg HS is supposed to host the Region 5 STEM program. |
Ah, so screaming at people on an anonymous message board is equivalent to giving your perspective to the BOE - you know, the ones who actually make the decision? If you didn't bother to show up, then you can't complain about those people who did. Calling them whiners and complainers is irrelevant. They don't care what you think. They only care what the BOE thinks. So feel free to post here multiple times a day if it makes you feel better (or superior to Wootton families). If that's the case, then you should seek professional help. Or better yet, just go back to work. And yet you can constantly post here. |
Simple solution. Wootton stays and waits their turn for a major refurbishment. |
Sorry should’ve said a STEM not the STEM program. Crown is slated to host the Medical Healthcare program at Region 5 in all options but H. In H, Crown/Wootton is moved to Region 4. All of Region 5 (basically the Gaithersburg community) lose access to Crown’s state-of-the-art labs and facilities. |
Do tell social justice warriors. Is H good if it takes Crown away from region 5 and gives it to region 4? |
Supposedly this is the real reason why Churchill is very happy. Option H changes nothing about Churchill boundaries, but it gives Churchill access to a brand new state-of-the-art labs. There was no other way for Churchill to access labs without forcing Wootton to Crown. |
Interesting how ever since someone pointed out that H turns Crown into region 4 and hands all its brand new resources to Churchill, Wootton, RM, etc., the pro H crowd has been silent… What happened to the whole anti W schools/pro H trolls? Did they just realize that H actually gives more advantages to both Winston Churchill HS and Wootton HS. |
It's really not that complicated once you stop being deliberately obtuse. While people might disagree on relative priority, most would agree Wootton is nearing the end of its functional lifespan and will soon need a major renovation or to be rebuilt. The people opposed to H don't want to stick with current Wootton building. They instead want MCPS to build them a school that the district doesn't actually need because they think it will help their property values. |
So let’s say we give Wootton this brand new school. Again for the countless time: do we care or don’t care that H moves Crown/Wootton to region 4? Do we care or don’t care that this would give all the brand new, state of art labs and resources to Rockville and Potomac residents (Wootton, Churchill, RM) when this was supposed to be for under-resourced yet over populated Gaithersburg? PP, by your own logic, MCPS is giving H to “privileged” parents of Wootton. How do you feel about the entire Gaithersburg community losing access to Crown, when every other option A-G gives Crown to Region 5? |
A lot of schools are on a similar situation. They act like they have the worst school and they don’t. |
Yes, we’ve established this: we are a privileged bunch. Again I ask, how do you folks feel about option H taking Crown from region 5 and giving it to us privileged elitists in region 4? |
They don’t care about equity or Gaithersburg. Gaithersburg kids literally made a music video about how the BOE doesn’t care about them. Trolls on this thread are no different. It just comes down to being against anything W schools want and being for anything W schools don’t want. |
Longer-term, it isn't good for Region 5 to have MCPS paying for a high school that it doesn't need. |
Even longer term, it isn’t good for anyone in the school system for MCPS to spend money breaking ground on a new school it doesn’t need, use faulty enrollment numbers, not renovate another school that they have neglected for decades, and then instead of fixing the neglected school, punishes it by closing it altogether. If we’re talking about the long term, pretty sure setting an unlawful precedent is worse. |
What is your suggestion to best handle this? |