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

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

dp.. why do you say that? Even if that's true, so what? Your kid will stand out. It'll be better for college admissions, trust me.

I live in the HH cluster, and one of my neighbors has lived here for a looong time during the time HH get rezoned to RM. Lots of parents were upset because "it's a lower performing school." Neighbor's kids ended up very very successful (doctors, lawyers,..)

Even if Crown becomes a lower performing school, and I doubt it will get lower than RM, your kids will still have a high performing peer group, and enough of them such that the school will offer the same amount of AP courses that Wootton currently has.

The reason why opponents of H from Wootton are called racist is because you think adding a few brown/black kids will degrade the school.

I could have written this myself. Not sure why more don't understand.

Signed that Cold Spring, Cabin John , Wootton parent that everyone thinks is a troll

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

1 - I do not believe the school rating will drop dramatically as you seem to think.
2 - I do care about school ratings but I also don't think that adding another elementary school or two of "low performing" "poor" "black/brown" or whatever else you want to say will change that

And please don't tell me that I do not belong here. This is my neighborhood and I belong anywhere I pay my taxes. Trust me that my family has been in this area longer than yours.

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

1 - I do not believe the school rating will drop dramatically as you seem to think.
2 - I do care about school ratings but I also don't think that adding another elementary school or two of "low performing" "poor" "black/brown" or whatever else you want to say will change that

And please don't tell me that I do not belong here. This is my neighborhood and I belong anywhere I pay my taxes. Trust me that my family has been in this area longer than yours.

forgot to sign off on my post

Signed that Cold Spring, Cabin John , Wootton parent that everyone thinks is a troll

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

Feel free to move near Crown. Cold Spring families do not love Crown because of its location. Also, many HH families would prefer Wootton to RM, as they used to be in Wootton.

1 - don't tell me to move
2 - Many HH families love RM - just as many as you think would prefer Wootton would like to stay right where they are

Signed that Cold Spring, Cabin John , Wootton parent that everyone thinks is a troll

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

dp.. why do you say that? Even if that's true, so what? Your kid will stand out. It'll be better for college admissions, trust me.

I live in the HH cluster, and one of my neighbors has lived here for a looong time during the time HH get rezoned to RM. Lots of parents were upset because "it's a lower performing school." Neighbor's kids ended up very very successful (doctors, lawyers,..)

Even if Crown becomes a lower performing school, and I doubt it will get lower than RM, your kids will still have a high performing peer group, and enough of them such that the school will offer the same amount of AP courses that Wootton currently has.

The reason why opponents of H from Wootton are called racist is because you think adding a few brown/black kids will degrade the school.

+10000
Signed that Cold Spring, Cabin John , Wootton parent that everyone thinks is a troll

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"Also, many HH families would prefer Wootton to RM, as they used to be in Wootton."

I totally agree but would add that if H goes through, HH families will feel lucky that they are assigned to RM, both from a school rating and distance standpoint.

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Anonymous wrote:"Also, many HH families would prefer Wootton to RM, as they used to be in Wootton."

I totally agree but would add that if H goes through, HH families will feel lucky that they are assigned to RM, both from a school rating and distance standpoint.

Yes they will be thinking they definitely got the better deal after all.

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

dp.. why do you say that? Even if that's true, so what? Your kid will stand out. It'll be better for college admissions, trust me.

I live in the HH cluster, and one of my neighbors has lived here for a looong time during the time HH get rezoned to RM. Lots of parents were upset because "it's a lower performing school." Neighbor's kids ended up very very successful (doctors, lawyers,..)

Even if Crown becomes a lower performing school, and I doubt it will get lower than RM, your kids will still have a high performing peer group, and enough of them such that the school will offer the same amount of AP courses that Wootton currently has.

The reason why opponents of H from Wootton are called racist is because you think adding a few brown/black kids will degrade the school.

+10000
Signed that Cold Spring, Cabin John , Wootton parent that everyone thinks is a troll

The signature-you are quite possibly the most annoying poster on this thread at this point. I assure you-nobody cares who you are or where you are posting from.

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Anonymous wrote:Clarifying, in all probability, regional model as is will pass.

Except no one really knows how regional model will actually work, since they don't have anything definitive. Just half-baked plans, which can change on a dime.

Yall im going to be for real: I haven’t even had the time to take a deep dive into the half-baked plan because I’m still trying to figure out the boundaries. All I know is most teachers don’t like it. I trust my kids’ teachers more than politicians.

Why does this feel like the Trump strategy? Overwhelm everyone with information and decisions all at once, create chaos & sow division, and then just do whatever the man in charge wants to begin with?

It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

If you don't demonstrate you considered a wide range of options, and solicited feedback on them, then whenever doesn't like the ultimate decision will try to argue a lack of due diligence.

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

1 - I do not believe the school rating will drop dramatically as you seem to think.
2 - I do care about school ratings but I also don't think that adding another elementary school or two of "low performing" "poor" "black/brown" or whatever else you want to say will change that

And please don't tell me that I do not belong here. This is my neighborhood and I belong anywhere I pay my taxes. Trust me that my family has been in this area longer than yours.

The school rating will drop guaranteed-You are having a school that doesn’t even meet 50% proficiency in math or reading join. And then if fields road joins-they also aren’t even at 50% proficiency. How do you think school ratings work? Test scores. If fields joins you are looking at 1/4-1/3 of the school having below 50% proficiency. You don’t think that will have any kind of effect on the school’s overall rating? Are you also not proficient in math? Because that’s the only way you wouldn’t be able to figure this out.

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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?

The cognitive dissonance doesn't make sense. Either Wootton is rich and privileged - doesn't deserve a new building, or Wootton is being given a "gift" that it should be forced to take for the good of MCPS. Which is it?

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?

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.

Strongly disagree. Circumstances and data change. When a previous decision is no longer justified by the current situation and data, or (gasp!) if that decision was made in error, and there is still an opportunity to make a better decision, we should take it. Blindly continuing down a wasteful path due to a decision made 20 years ago would be the awful precedent.

It's absurd to characterize option H as "punishing" people in the Wootton zone. We know in the short-to-moderate term we would need a new building for Wootton. And we just so happen to have an available building just 2.3 miles away.

So you’re suggesting that Wootton get 100% of the former Crown and Taylor agrees not to move 500+ GHS kids into the new Wootton? This would make sense if MCPS is correct that the numbers don’t support a new high school at Crown anymore. However, I wonder how GHS parents would feel about MCPS “stealing” their new school and giving it to Wootton. Oh wait, we already know this from the hearings last week.

If you’re saying that Wootton has to move AND has to absorb kids through a boundary change, then you’re creating a new school and closing the old Wootton.

You can play with semantics all you like, but a judge is unlikely to agree, at least in the short term due to irreparable harm to Wootton families. MCPS doesn’t want this situation anywhere near a courtroom because it would be forced to open Crown with only 500 GHS kids. Any more kids than that and MCPS can’t close Wootton and move it to Crown.

By my read school closure under the regulations means the literal facility- "permanently ceasing to use it for educational purposes". It basically means a "negative one" facility for educational purposes. There aren't established facts to show that is happening here.

The currently empty Rock Terrace school in Rockville did not go through closure proceedings. Nor did any of the other buildings currently being used as holding schools.

Multiple school buildings stop being used over the years. Some reopened like Woodward and Northwood, others like Leland and became something else.

PP here. Thank you for adding additional examples. All of these, as far as my internet research can tell me, did not follow closure procedures, presumably because there was not a plan to permanently stop using them for educational purposes.

And for the last time, no one in those cases cared enough to pursue it in court. In some of those cases (Blair) it was welcomed by the community.

If no one cares enough to pursue it in court, even if it’s illegal, it’s a harmless legal error.

Stop comparing Wootton to all these other schools on closure, because I can assure you Wootton will sue. They will be ready the moment H is passed.

Yep. And a judge will issue a TRO - and may even order MCPS to make immediate repairs to Wootton to maintain the status quo. Funnily enough, this is all Wootton families want. MCPS needs to figure out what to do with a school it should have never built, without closing the #3 school in Maryland. If it wants to move Wootton to Crown, then it can’t change the boundaries. Doing both under Option H is a closure.

That obviously makes no sense. Districts can change school names. They can change school buildings. And they can change school boundaries. Any set of those things, done sequentially or at once, is not a school closure.

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

dp.. why do you say that? Even if that's true, so what? Your kid will stand out. It'll be better for college admissions, trust me.

I live in the HH cluster, and one of my neighbors has lived here for a looong time during the time HH get rezoned to RM. Lots of parents were upset because "it's a lower performing school." Neighbor's kids ended up very very successful (doctors, lawyers,..)

Even if Crown becomes a lower performing school, and I doubt it will get lower than RM, your kids will still have a high performing peer group, and enough of them such that the school will offer the same amount of AP courses that Wootton currently has.

The reason why opponents of H from Wootton are called racist is because you think adding a few brown/black kids will degrade the school.

+10000
Signed that Cold Spring, Cabin John , Wootton parent that everyone thinks is a troll

The signature-you are quite possibly the most annoying poster on this thread at this point. I assure you-nobody cares who you are or where you are posting from.

I am only clarifying where I am from because many think that people like me do not exist. Just because we don't clammer for the front seat at the BOE or testify or speak on camera does not mean that we are not in touch with the BOE. Fingers crossed Option H goes through and we can take pictures of our kids in front of the new Crown high school in 2027 with our expanded community of school goers from Gaithersburg.

I will exculde my signature this time just for you - but you know who I am

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Anonymous wrote:Why couldn’t MCPS keep Wootton open, but allow advanced coursework at Crown using its state of the art labs, etc… for high performing Wootton kids to attend with Gaithersburg kids whose home school is Crown? Wouldn’t that achieve MCPS goal of exposing such kids to one another, potentially resulting in higher achievement? High school kids already take advanced classes at MC and other colleges. Advanced classes only available at Crown would make it somewhat like RM and Blair, but without permanent students assigned to Crown. Such advanced classes could count towards enrollment at Crown (different classes and kids on different days, such as 1x or 2x a week). Call it a shared hybrid learning model. Crown would get instant prestige with smart kids from Wootton, GHS, QO, Clarksburg, etc.

The point is that Wootton needs a new building and we happen to have one available that isn't needed for something else. Besides the obvious added cost of running an extra school, there's no plausible path for rebuilding Wootton.

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

1 - I do not believe the school rating will drop dramatically as you seem to think.
2 - I do care about school ratings but I also don't think that adding another elementary school or two of "low performing" "poor" "black/brown" or whatever else you want to say will change that

And please don't tell me that I do not belong here. This is my neighborhood and I belong anywhere I pay my taxes. Trust me that my family has been in this area longer than yours.

The school rating will drop guaranteed-You are having a school that doesn’t even meet 50% proficiency in math or reading join. And then if fields road joins-they also aren’t even at 50% proficiency. How do you think school ratings work? Test scores. If fields joins you are looking at 1/4-1/3 of the school having below 50% proficiency. You don’t think that will have any kind of effect on the school’s overall rating? Are you also not proficient in math? Because that’s the only way you wouldn’t be able to figure this out.

Let's say you are correct. Let's say the test scores go down overall. You do understand that your student will therefore stand out correct? You do understand that very high academic schools do not take many students from the same school and your student coming from an outlier school is an advantage correct?

- signed - you know who it is

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Anonymous wrote:It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents. Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market. Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do. Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe. No need for troll response. I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care. I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown!

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes. Why did you move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.

dp.. why do you say that? Even if that's true, so what? Your kid will stand out. It'll be better for college admissions, trust me.

I live in the HH cluster, and one of my neighbors has lived here for a looong time during the time HH get rezoned to RM. Lots of parents were upset because "it's a lower performing school." Neighbor's kids ended up very very successful (doctors, lawyers,..)

Even if Crown becomes a lower performing school, and I doubt it will get lower than RM, your kids will still have a high performing peer group, and enough of them such that the school will offer the same amount of AP courses that Wootton currently has.

The reason why opponents of H from Wootton are called racist is because you think adding a few brown/black kids will degrade the school.

+10000
Signed that Cold Spring, Cabin John , Wootton parent that everyone thinks is a troll

Seriously who cares, this is an anonymous forum. Anyone can say anything without being fact checked