Taylor Meeting at Wootton

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is with the hyperbole? 250 new buses on Wootton Parkway? 37 stops for one bus?! Making up BS just further undermines your argument. Clearly you're unfamiliar with how public school busing works here, because they don't go from house to house picking up each kid. LOL. There are things called "bus stops" where they pick up dozens of kids at one place, for efficiency. The Wootton bus schedule is a public document, and you can see for yourself that every bus makes just a handful of stops - with one outlier at 16 stops. Oh, and it's 22 buses for Wootton. Moving Wootton to Crown will not make that number jump to 250. Even if none of these groups turn to walkers at Crown (which some of them will), it still will not require another 228 buses to transport the Wootton walkers to Crown. And since MCPS already said that Wootton wouldn't be used as a holding school for several years, you don't have to worry about another 22-30 (not 228) buses from another high school coming. IF and when it is used as a holding school, there will be plenty of time to stagger the holding school start time from Wootton. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/Transportation/busroutes/04234bus.pdf

If Wootton isn’t going to be used as a holding school for several years, what is the plan for Magruder and why is this plan equitable?

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations).

Ok I'll bite. For the first goal, what is wrong with filling Crown with high achieving kids? Isn't that a great idea in a public school system? Or should Crown be filled with low achieving kids? Is it illegal to fill Crown with high achieving kids? If MCPS had a choice between filling Crown with high or low achieving kids, if it made the decision to fill Crown with high achieving kids, wouldn't that be a wise decision for a public school system to make? To set up the school for success? Maximize the chances for more students to perform well? Studies show that taking low achieving kids and surrounding them with high achieving kids helps those low achieving kids tremendously. Why? Because they're low achieving because of lack of access and lack of resources. For the second goal, of course moving Wootton to Crown avoids MCPS having to spend a bunch of money it doesn't have remediating Wootton. That's what they said! Consolidating schools is for efficiency is explicitly one of the valid purposes of a boundary study. You stump me on the sole source contract motivation. Never heard of this complaint - how would saving money on renovating Wootton allow MCPS to spend money (the money it doesn't have to renovate Wootton) on more sole source contracts? That conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense. Third, moving Wootton to Crown creates a holding school for Magruder - at Wootton. It doesn't mean there isn't one. Where do you base your conclusion that if Crown was the holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations? Under the recommendation, Taylor made clear that there is no money for renovations for Magruder until 2033. That's why Magruder wouldn't even be going to Wootton as a holding school for many years.

On Magruder, that’s why we’re upset. There is no money for many years. So if we don’t get crown as a holding school, what happens to us?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Making my way through the insults to ask a sincere Q about why the IG complaints should delay the vote. Does the IG have authority to actually override a boundary decision? I went on the website and all I see are opinions written by the IG with loosey goosey recommendations. If the IGs do open an investigation, I for one will be interested in reading their recommendations, particularly for the next ES study. But they have no power to actually determine a proper boundary configuration, right?

Fair question and you're right I believe. The IG can't override a boundary decision. Nobody is claiming they can (I hope!).

The argument for delay isn't "the IG will reverse this." The argument is that a vote taken while active complaints are pending at both the IG and the state board of education creates a legitimacy problem that doesn't go away just because the vote passed. If the IG subsequently finds process violations or data irregularities, you've already implemented a permanent boundary change built on a flawed foundation. Unwinding that is exponentially harder and more expensive than pausing 30-60 days to get it right the first time.

The IG's value here isn't enforcement, but rather it's accountability and documentation. If the procurement concerns, the rushed timeline, the data methodology questions, and the multilingual outreach failures are found to be legitimate, that matters for every boundary study and capital decision that follows. The ES study you mentioned being interested in would benefit enormously from those findings being on record before the next round begins.

So no, the IG can't stop this vote. But "they can't stop it" and "there's no reason to pause" are two very different things. One is a legal observation. The other is a choice.

So if the IG can't stop it, then are you hoping that MCPS or BOE will suddenly stop it? Or that someone else will get involved and stop it in advance of the vote? MCPS says they have done nothing wrong and the BOE seems to either believe them or be disinterested in extending this any further because of...well, this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The teachers overwhelming support the move. That says a lot.

Sign their petition: https://www.change.org/p/move-wootton-high-school

Not even signed by teachers.

Yes, it is. Sure, other community members have signed since, but the teachers are the ones organizing it.

Where are their names? Let's see the list of teacher's names.

Here you go:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/woottonhs/staff/directory/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a post from Rockville Council Member Adam Van Grack and it captures a video snippet of Taylor answering questions:

The audience was pretty hostile and aggressive, and booed and talked over him a few times. Taylor looked like he crapped himself toward the end of the clip.

What a night!

wow, look who found their way here for some self promotion...

For the love of Wootton and all her feeder schools, please stop posting pics of this man. Even DCUM can do better than that.

[Anonymous]

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations).


Only rich people think that it's a thing where someone can be forced to "have to find money." As if hundreds of millions of dollars are sitting there in some void, only waiting to be discovered once pressure is put on MCPS. Why do the Anti-Crown hecklers always repeat this baloney? It's not like the MCPS operating and capital budgets are secrets. They are public documents. You can see exactly how much money they have for each, and where it goes to. When you look, you'll see that there isn't a pot of money waiting to be discovered. It's not there. Why don't you guys ever complain to the County Council, who actually funds MCPS? Oh I know. Because you're just pretending that you care about renovations being done. You really just want to throw out every complaint to keep Wootton on the Parkway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with the hyperbole? 250 new buses on Wootton Parkway? 37 stops for one bus?! Making up BS just further undermines your argument. Clearly you're unfamiliar with how public school busing works here, because they don't go from house to house picking up each kid. LOL. There are things called "bus stops" where they pick up dozens of kids at one place, for efficiency. The Wootton bus schedule is a public document, and you can see for yourself that every bus makes just a handful of stops - with one outlier at 16 stops. Oh, and it's 22 buses for Wootton. Moving Wootton to Crown will not make that number jump to 250. Even if none of these groups turn to walkers at Crown (which some of them will), it still will not require another 228 buses to transport the Wootton walkers to Crown. And since MCPS already said that Wootton wouldn't be used as a holding school for several years, you don't have to worry about another 22-30 (not 228) buses from another high school coming. IF and when it is used as a holding school, there will be plenty of time to stagger the holding school start time from Wootton. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/Transportation/busroutes/04234bus.pdf

If Wootton isn’t going to be used as a holding school for several years, what is the plan for Magruder and why is this plan equitable?

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations).

Nobody is talking about the staffing elephant in the room. What happens when Wootton's teachers leave?

And they will. I would know since I am one. Teachers with 15-20 years in a community don't just pick up and relocate because a superintendent drew a new line on a map. Many of them chose Wootton specifically for the culture, the community, the commute from where they actually live. When this "relocation" happens and half the faculty walks out the door, suddenly you don't have Wootton at Crown. You have Crown with a Wootton nameplate.

My kids had some of those teachers (my colleagues) over a decade ago. The institutional knowledge, the relationships, the culture we've all built... it's not a building. That's years of investment that evaporates the moment this vote passes and the resignation letters start.

MCPS keeps saying this is a move, not a closure. Fine. But a school is its people, not its address. When you force a relocation without meaningful faculty buy-in and lose half your experienced staff in the process, you've effectively closed the school everyone knew and opened a new one with a familiar logo. We've had very little engagement from the county other than with each other as peers. There are mixed feelings of course, but nobody took our pulse at the county level.

That's not a relocation. That's a rebranding. And the kids who show up at Crown in 2027 expecting Wootton deserve to know the difference.

I'm really sorry to hear this. I also think you should know that the Wootton families believe that teachers are replaceable. The responses to those staff members who feel unsafe in the building is, "then you should transfer schools". Disgusting lack of care for people who probably spend more time with their kids than they do, right? Sorry you aren't valued more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's a post from Rockville Council Member Adam Van Grack and it captures a video snippet of Taylor answering questions:

The audience was pretty hostile and aggressive, and booed and talked over him a few times. Taylor looked like he crapped himself toward the end of the clip.

What a night!

wow, look who found their way here for some self promotion...

For the love of Wootton and all her feeder schools, please stop posting pics of this man. Even DCUM can do better than that.

I will forever now say “For the love of Wootton and all her feeder schools”!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with the hyperbole? 250 new buses on Wootton Parkway? 37 stops for one bus?! Making up BS just further undermines your argument. Clearly you're unfamiliar with how public school busing works here, because they don't go from house to house picking up each kid. LOL. There are things called "bus stops" where they pick up dozens of kids at one place, for efficiency. The Wootton bus schedule is a public document, and you can see for yourself that every bus makes just a handful of stops - with one outlier at 16 stops. Oh, and it's 22 buses for Wootton. Moving Wootton to Crown will not make that number jump to 250. Even if none of these groups turn to walkers at Crown (which some of them will), it still will not require another 228 buses to transport the Wootton walkers to Crown. And since MCPS already said that Wootton wouldn't be used as a holding school for several years, you don't have to worry about another 22-30 (not 228) buses from another high school coming. IF and when it is used as a holding school, there will be plenty of time to stagger the holding school start time from Wootton. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/Transportation/busroutes/04234bus.pdf

If Wootton isn’t going to be used as a holding school for several years, what is the plan for Magruder and why is this plan equitable?

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations).

Nobody is talking about the staffing elephant in the room. What happens when Wootton's teachers leave?

And they will. I would know since I am one. Teachers with 15-20 years in a community don't just pick up and relocate because a superintendent drew a new line on a map. Many of them chose Wootton specifically for the culture, the community, the commute from where they actually live. When this "relocation" happens and half the faculty walks out the door, suddenly you don't have Wootton at Crown. You have Crown with a Wootton nameplate.

My kids had some of those teachers (my colleagues) over a decade ago. The institutional knowledge, the relationships, the culture we've all built... it's not a building. That's years of investment that evaporates the moment this vote passes and the resignation letters start.

MCPS keeps saying this is a move, not a closure. Fine. But a school is its people, not its address. When you force a relocation without meaningful faculty buy-in and lose half your experienced staff in the process, you've effectively closed the school everyone knew and opened a new one with a familiar logo. We've had very little engagement from the county other than with each other as peers. There are mixed feelings of course, but nobody took our pulse at the county level.

That's not a relocation. That's a rebranding. And the kids who show up at Crown in 2027 expecting Wootton deserve to know the difference.

I'm really sorry to hear this. I also think you should know that the Wootton families believe that teachers are replaceable. The responses to those staff members who feel unsafe in the building is, "then you should transfer schools". Disgusting lack of care for people who probably spend more time with their kids than they do, right? Sorry you aren't valued more.

Thank you. Transferring schools isn't a desire I have. I'd rather retire than move - just a few more years left. I simply care about these kids, even in this old building. I do spend a lot of time with these kids because I genuinely care about them. They value they provide to me is worth, what I feel is a small investment in them. To watch them grow is my vitamin. Many of these kids have become lifelong friends that come back to visit. They talk about the fun walks and talks they had over the years. The other staff members haven't been as vocal about the conditions, but some may feel a certain way about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with the hyperbole? 250 new buses on Wootton Parkway? 37 stops for one bus?! Making up BS just further undermines your argument. Clearly you're unfamiliar with how public school busing works here, because they don't go from house to house picking up each kid. LOL. There are things called "bus stops" where they pick up dozens of kids at one place, for efficiency. The Wootton bus schedule is a public document, and you can see for yourself that every bus makes just a handful of stops - with one outlier at 16 stops. Oh, and it's 22 buses for Wootton. Moving Wootton to Crown will not make that number jump to 250. Even if none of these groups turn to walkers at Crown (which some of them will), it still will not require another 228 buses to transport the Wootton walkers to Crown. And since MCPS already said that Wootton wouldn't be used as a holding school for several years, you don't have to worry about another 22-30 (not 228) buses from another high school coming. IF and when it is used as a holding school, there will be plenty of time to stagger the holding school start time from Wootton. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/Transportation/busroutes/04234bus.pdf

If Wootton isn’t going to be used as a holding school for several years, what is the plan for Magruder and why is this plan equitable?

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations).

Nobody is talking about the staffing elephant in the room. What happens when Wootton's teachers leave?

And they will. I would know since I am one. Teachers with 15-20 years in a community don't just pick up and relocate because a superintendent drew a new line on a map. Many of them chose Wootton specifically for the culture, the community, the commute from where they actually live. When this "relocation" happens and half the faculty walks out the door, suddenly you don't have Wootton at Crown. You have Crown with a Wootton nameplate.

My kids had some of those teachers (my colleagues) over a decade ago. The institutional knowledge, the relationships, the culture we've all built... it's not a building. That's years of investment that evaporates the moment this vote passes and the resignation letters start.

MCPS keeps saying this is a move, not a closure. Fine. But a school is its people, not its address. When you force a relocation without meaningful faculty buy-in and lose half your experienced staff in the process, you've effectively closed the school everyone knew and opened a new one with a familiar logo. We've had very little engagement from the county other than with each other as peers. There are mixed feelings of course, but nobody took our pulse at the county level.

That's not a relocation. That's a rebranding. And the kids who show up at Crown in 2027 expecting Wootton deserve to know the difference.

I'm really sorry to hear this. I also think you should know that the Wootton families believe that teachers are replaceable. The responses to those staff members who feel unsafe in the building is, "then you should transfer schools". Disgusting lack of care for people who probably spend more time with their kids than they do, right? Sorry you aren't valued more.

Teachers can only transfer if there is a position and released but I wouldn't blame any teacher who transferred or went to Crown vs. Wootton if its that unsafe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's a post from Rockville Council Member Adam Van Grack and it captures a video snippet of Taylor answering questions:

The audience was pretty hostile and aggressive, and booed and talked over him a few times. Taylor looked like he crapped himself toward the end of the clip.

What a night!

wow, look who found their way here for some self promotion...

For the love of Wootton and all her feeder schools, please stop posting pics of this man. Even DCUM can do better than that.

I will forever now say “For the love of Wootton and all her feeder schools”!

Which man? There are several men. And some of the women look like men so really we could be talking about quite a few people here. And why not show them? From their standpoint maybe it’s more Save Wootton awareness. Even though we realize it’s pure clownassery, he/they are seemingly proud about it. Win/win?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's a post from Rockville Council Member Adam Van Grack and it captures a video snippet of Taylor answering questions:

The audience was pretty hostile and aggressive, and booed and talked over him a few times. Taylor looked like he crapped himself toward the end of the clip.

What a night!

wow, look who found their way here for some self promotion...

For the love of Wootton and all her feeder schools, please stop posting pics of this man. Even DCUM can do better than that.

I will forever now say “For the love of Wootton and all her feeder schools”!

Which man? There are several men. And some of the women look like men so really we could be talking about quite a few people here. And why not show them? From their standpoint maybe it’s more Save Wootton awareness. Even though we realize it’s pure clownassery, he/they are seemingly proud about it. Win/win?

I have no idea who you are referring to, but the only woman I recognize in that picture is Board Member Julie Yang.

Can we keep this classy?

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry I didn’t read every post of this thread, but I’m genuinely confused. Why is the Wootton community so angry about moving to a state of the art brand new building? Their building conditions now are terrible? What is the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with the hyperbole? 250 new buses on Wootton Parkway? 37 stops for one bus?! Making up BS just further undermines your argument. Clearly you're unfamiliar with how public school busing works here, because they don't go from house to house picking up each kid. LOL. There are things called "bus stops" where they pick up dozens of kids at one place, for efficiency. The Wootton bus schedule is a public document, and you can see for yourself that every bus makes just a handful of stops - with one outlier at 16 stops. Oh, and it's 22 buses for Wootton. Moving Wootton to Crown will not make that number jump to 250. Even if none of these groups turn to walkers at Crown (which some of them will), it still will not require another 228 buses to transport the Wootton walkers to Crown. And since MCPS already said that Wootton wouldn't be used as a holding school for several years, you don't have to worry about another 22-30 (not 228) buses from another high school coming. IF and when it is used as a holding school, there will be plenty of time to stagger the holding school start time from Wootton. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/Transportation/busroutes/04234bus.pdf

If Wootton isn’t going to be used as a holding school for several years, what is the plan for Magruder and why is this plan equitable?

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations).

Nobody is talking about the staffing elephant in the room. What happens when Wootton's teachers leave?

And they will. I would know since I am one. Teachers with 15-20 years in a community don't just pick up and relocate because a superintendent drew a new line on a map. Many of them chose Wootton specifically for the culture, the community, the commute from where they actually live. When this "relocation" happens and half the faculty walks out the door, suddenly you don't have Wootton at Crown. You have Crown with a Wootton nameplate.

My kids had some of those teachers (my colleagues) over a decade ago. The institutional knowledge, the relationships, the culture we've all built... it's not a building. That's years of investment that evaporates the moment this vote passes and the resignation letters start.

MCPS keeps saying this is a move, not a closure. Fine. But a school is its people, not its address. When you force a relocation without meaningful faculty buy-in and lose half your experienced staff in the process, you've effectively closed the school everyone knew and opened a new one with a familiar logo. We've had very little engagement from the county other than with each other as peers. There are mixed feelings of course, but nobody took our pulse at the county level.

That's not a relocation. That's a rebranding. And the kids who show up at Crown in 2027 expecting Wootton deserve to know the difference.

I'm really sorry to hear this. I also think you should know that the Wootton families believe that teachers are replaceable. The responses to those staff members who feel unsafe in the building is, "then you should transfer schools". Disgusting lack of care for people who probably spend more time with their kids than they do, right? Sorry you aren't valued more.

Thank you. Transferring schools isn't a desire I have. I'd rather retire than move - just a few more years left. I simply care about these kids, even in this old building. I do spend a lot of time with these kids because I genuinely care about them. They value they provide to me is worth, what I feel is a small investment in them. To watch them grow is my vitamin. Many of these kids have become lifelong friends that come back to visit. They talk about the fun walks and talks they had over the years. The other staff members haven't been as vocal about the conditions, but some may feel a certain way about it.

This is.. too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is with the hyperbole? 250 new buses on Wootton Parkway? 37 stops for one bus?! Making up BS just further undermines your argument. Clearly you're unfamiliar with how public school busing works here, because they don't go from house to house picking up each kid. LOL. There are things called "bus stops" where they pick up dozens of kids at one place, for efficiency. The Wootton bus schedule is a public document, and you can see for yourself that every bus makes just a handful of stops - with one outlier at 16 stops. Oh, and it's 22 buses for Wootton. Moving Wootton to Crown will not make that number jump to 250. Even if none of these groups turn to walkers at Crown (which some of them will), it still will not require another 228 buses to transport the Wootton walkers to Crown. And since MCPS already said that Wootton wouldn't be used as a holding school for several years, you don't have to worry about another 22-30 (not 228) buses from another high school coming. IF and when it is used as a holding school, there will be plenty of time to stagger the holding school start time from Wootton. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/Transportation/busroutes/04234bus.pdf

If Wootton isn’t going to be used as a holding school for several years, what is the plan for Magruder and why is this plan equitable?

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations).

Nobody is talking about the staffing elephant in the room. What happens when Wootton's teachers leave?

And they will. I would know since I am one. Teachers with 15-20 years in a community don't just pick up and relocate because a superintendent drew a new line on a map. Many of them chose Wootton specifically for the culture, the community, the commute from where they actually live. When this "relocation" happens and half the faculty walks out the door, suddenly you don't have Wootton at Crown. You have Crown with a Wootton nameplate.

My kids had some of those teachers (my colleagues) over a decade ago. The institutional knowledge, the relationships, the culture we've all built... it's not a building. That's years of investment that evaporates the moment this vote passes and the resignation letters start.

MCPS keeps saying this is a move, not a closure. Fine. But a school is its people, not its address. When you force a relocation without meaningful faculty buy-in and lose half your experienced staff in the process, you've effectively closed the school everyone knew and opened a new one with a familiar logo. We've had very little engagement from the county other than with each other as peers. There are mixed feelings of course, but nobody took our pulse at the county level.

That's not a relocation. That's a rebranding. And the kids who show up at Crown in 2027 expecting Wootton deserve to know the difference.

Are you just pretending to be a teacher? This doesn't make any sense. Why would teachers care so much about the school moving a couple miles away (to a much nicer building) that they'd quit in droves? I guess it might be a little further drive from home for some, closer for others, but that hardly seems like the kind of thing that would cause a teacher who's happy with their position, colleagues, and students to throw that at all out the window and look for a new job.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t want Wooton to move to Crown go private. It’s that simple. This is a PUBLIC school so get over yourself.