Wootton: Contact your City of Rockville reps & state delegates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What exactly do you want them to do? Unless this country, broadly, takes a stand about guns, everything else is really window dressing. As with most school shootings, the perpetrator in this case was also a student. You can put all the security systems in place you want, if a student is determined to take action, they're going to know the blindspots -- they're there every day.

We need schools to focus on their culture and climate, reduce class sizes so teachers can actually get to know their students, and we need gun control.

I agree. What are we supposed to say to these people? We aren't happy that it happened?

Rockville has NO authority over MCPS. MCPS is a county organization.

[Anonymous]

If the OP played a sport like baseball they would want 4 strikes to be an out. Accept that you had the opportunity to make an impact and it failed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the OP played a sport like baseball they would want 4 strikes to be an out. Accept that you had the opportunity to make an impact and it failed.

Who had the opportunity? And who failed??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wootton will be Crown in Gaithersburg in 2027. Are they demolishing the current Wootton building?

The Superintendent's recommended plan is to move Wootton to Crown and then renovate Wootton as a holding school to hold students during renovations for other schools. After that's done, who knows, maybe enrollment will recover and they re-open the building?

The Superintendent also delivered a non-recommended plan to open Crown as a high school and keep Wootton as is.

We'll find out what the Board of Education decides in late March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton will be Crown in Gaithersburg in 2027. Are they demolishing the current Wootton building?

The Superintendent's recommended plan is to move Wootton to Crown and then renovate Wootton as a holding school to hold students during renovations for other schools. After that's done, who knows, maybe enrollment will recover and they re-open the building?

The Superintendent also delivered a non-recommended plan to open Crown as a high school and keep Wootton as is.

We'll find out what the Board of Education decides in late March.

If MCPS has the money to do the bolded, why not leave Wootton where it is and use Crown as a holding school (since the money has already been spent to build it)? I haven’t seen an answer to this question from MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton will be Crown in Gaithersburg in 2027. Are they demolishing the current Wootton building?

The Superintendent's recommended plan is to move Wootton to Crown and then renovate Wootton as a holding school to hold students during renovations for other schools. After that's done, who knows, maybe enrollment will recover and they re-open the building?

The Superintendent also delivered a non-recommended plan to open Crown as a high school and keep Wootton as is.

We'll find out what the Board of Education decides in late March.

There is a Go Fund me for Wooton renovations. Are they actually going to do the renovations before they use it as a holding school or is that more words? Wootton has never been renovated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton will be Crown in Gaithersburg in 2027. Are they demolishing the current Wootton building?

The Superintendent's recommended plan is to move Wootton to Crown and then renovate Wootton as a holding school to hold students during renovations for other schools. After that's done, who knows, maybe enrollment will recover and they re-open the building?

The Superintendent also delivered a non-recommended plan to open Crown as a high school and keep Wootton as is.

We'll find out what the Board of Education decides in late March.

If MCPS has the money to do the bolded, why not leave Wootton where it is and use Crown as a holding school (since the money has already been spent to build it)? I haven’t seen an answer to this question from MCPS.

Hasn't been addressed, but to me it makes sense.

Moving Wootton to Crown and making the old Wootton building the holding school adds more flexibility to the timeline.

What're the first schools that are going to be utilizing the holding school and when? If the new rebuilds aren't happening until 2028 or 2029, then it's leaving the new Crown school unused.

Similarly, if MCPS can't find all the money to fix up the old Wootton building by 2027, they can still keep the building empty and spread out the repairs or delay them. If students are going to be there by in 2027, then that only leaves summer of 2027 to fix things up (or fix things up with students in the building).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hell yeah. Wootten strong: https://wjla.com/news/local/thomas-s-wootton-high-school-racist-incident-rockville-md-maryland-montgomery-county-public-schools-letter-n-word-anti-black-racism-schools

Are you an idiot?

Wootton Strong came from 9/11 families lost loved ones on that day.

Screw off.

[Anonymous]

40% attendance at that school Tuesday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton will be Crown in Gaithersburg in 2027. Are they demolishing the current Wootton building?

The Superintendent's recommended plan is to move Wootton to Crown and then renovate Wootton as a holding school to hold students during renovations for other schools. After that's done, who knows, maybe enrollment will recover and they re-open the building?

The Superintendent also delivered a non-recommended plan to open Crown as a high school and keep Wootton as is.

We'll find out what the Board of Education decides in late March.

There is a Go Fund me for Wooton renovations. Are they actually going to do the renovations before they use it as a holding school or is that more words? Wootton has never been renovated.

I've never seen a 300 million dollar Go Fund Me before. Let me know how that goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reach out. Contact them. Take action. Advocate.

The City of Rockville
Rockville voters elected Monique Ashton as mayor in 2023.

Also elected six councilmembers:
Kate Fulton
Barry Jackson
David Myles
Izola (Zola) Shaw
Marissa Valeri
Adam Van Grack

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The District 17 delegation representatives handle legislative matters for the City of Rockville in Annapolis. The delegates work on various state level issues, including transportation, education, and economic development which impact Rockville.

Delegates:
Julie Palakovich Carr (since 2019)
Joe Vogel (since 2023)
Ryan Spiegel

Wtop
"Two sister bills, introduced in Maryland’s House and Senate, would move many serious juvenile cases so they start in juvenile court instead of adult court and leave only the most serious charges in automatic adult jurisdiction. Currently, 33 offenses automatically place 16 and 17-year-olds in adult court, and this legislation would sharply reduce that number.

McCarthy said a majority of Maryland’s state’s attorneys are against the proposed change, and many plan to testify against it on Thursday."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reach out. Contact them. Take action. Advocate.

The City of Rockville
Rockville voters elected Monique Ashton as mayor in 2023.

Also elected six councilmembers:
Kate Fulton
Barry Jackson
David Myles
Izola (Zola) Shaw
Marissa Valeri
Adam Van Grack

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The District 17 delegation representatives handle legislative matters for the City of Rockville in Annapolis. The delegates work on various state level issues, including transportation, education, and economic development which impact Rockville.

Delegates:
Julie Palakovich Carr (since 2019)
Joe Vogel (since 2023)
Ryan Spiegel

Wtop
"Two sister bills, introduced in Maryland’s House and Senate, would move many serious juvenile cases so they start in juvenile court instead of adult court and leave only the most serious charges in automatic adult jurisdiction. Currently, 33 offenses automatically place 16 and 17-year-olds in adult court, and this legislation would sharply reduce that number.

McCarthy said a majority of Maryland’s state’s attorneys are against the proposed change, and many plan to testify against it on Thursday."