| Wootton families should stop to create any more new protests or petitions about their moldy school. Other aging school clusters do not relatively complain or create that big deals out of it. It has gotten to the point quite annoying. It is ultimately the decision of the board to make final decisions. That is no point to argue at all. Whatever options they pick from A to H, some families would not be happy no matter what. Then unhappy families can decide to move or go to private/home school. |
The rest of us are not saying your first ask was unreasonable. We are saying you got a solution from MCPS, but you did not like it and pushed back against MCPS again, so don't whine if MCPS listens to you again and stops Option H. You were given a chance that you did not take, again, when you were only 3rd in line for renovations. Honestly, MCPS was being generous towards Wootton by proposing Option H. There are many times MCPS sucks but not this time. And about the dynamic, are you so afraid of your kids being friends with Black and Hispanic people? We are Asian and my kid goes to a DCC school and most of my kid's friends are Hispanic and Black (the school has 60% Hispanic population). They are all just fine. The racism from Wootton parents is insufferable. |
Other aging schools don’t have an option to close their schools. It needs to be fair. |
Yet, the only people being racist are you when you constantly bring it up when it literally wasn’t even relevant to the previous comment. |
Hear, hear! |
Nope, we are not zoned for any of these schools. |
Really? "Dynamic" - what dynamic?? |
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| I'm a magruder parent and I'd be thrilled if a brand new school 2 miles from Magruder was opening and they wanted to give it to us and close down this junky building. |
Maybe the one where it’s in a completely different place? the one where the walkable families can no longer walk? Maybe that dynamic? |
Some of the differences are that Magruder isn't a really pedestrian or mass transit accessible school to the majority of the area it serves. |
Except for Rio triangle which is an island and added to Wootton in 2000s, nobody in Wootton can be pedestrians to crown. |
But there are plenty of Wootton families that will now be able to walk if they are moved to Crown. We live literally across the street from Crown and my kid takes a bus to Wootton everyday. It just shifts who can walk and who takes a bus, it doesn't eliminate all walkers. |
You know your particular area should have never been zoned for Wootton in the first place-so absolutely makes sense for you to go to Crown. And you should fight to go! And those of us walkable to Wootton should get to keep our school. |
Wootton now has a large area of walk zone which is replaced with only rio being walk zone. Crown can have its own walk zone if Wootton is not moved there. It saves a lot of busing money to keep both schools open. |