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

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the reasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

You give MCPS too much credit and the students no credit for their good grades. Shame on you.

Grades are just one part of it, the opportunities are an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the reasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

They always have. Look at the course and activity offerings at the various MS and HS. There are huge disparities in the offerings.

Ok, MCPS is removing Blair and other good magnet programs. No more disparities.

They aren't removing it, they are adding more magnets to give more kids opportunities. That's a good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the areasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

You give MCPS too much credit and the students no credit for their good grades. Shame on you.

Quite the opposite. The high test scores at Wootton aren't due to MCPS. They're due to the students that have selected for that boundary. Those students would test well at any school.

These students will just move. Their parents won’t just sit passively

That's fine. No one is going to have an issue with that.

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the areasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

You give MCPS too much credit and the students no credit for their good grades. Shame on you.

Quite the opposite. The high test scores at Wootton aren't due to MCPS. They're due to the students that have selected for that boundary. Those students would test well at any school.

These students will just move. Their parents won’t just sit passively

That's fine. What's wrong with that?

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the reasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

They always have. Look at the course and activity offerings at the various MS and HS. There are huge disparities in the offerings.

Ok, MCPS is removing Blair and other good magnet programs. No more disparities.

They aren't removing it, they are adding more magnets to give more kids opportunities. That's a good thing.

Here we go again. When is a magnet no longer a magnet?

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the reasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

They always have. Look at the course and activity offerings at the various MS and HS. There are huge disparities in the offerings.

Ok, MCPS is removing Blair and other good magnet programs. No more disparities.

They aren't removing it, they are adding more magnets to give more kids opportunities. That's a good thing.

Here we go again. When is a magnet no longer a magnet?

Umm, when it’s no longer “attractive”?

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the reasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

They always have. Look at the course and activity offerings at the various MS and HS. There are huge disparities in the offerings.

Ok, MCPS is removing Blair and other good magnet programs. No more disparities.

They aren't removing it, they are adding more magnets to give more kids opportunities. That's a good thing.

Here we go again. When is a magnet no longer a magnet?

Even MCPS is dropping the term; they’re replacing “magnets” with “special programs.”

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Anonymous wrote:100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option.

That is the smoking gun. They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not.

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well.

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the reasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking. The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so.

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.

They always have. Look at the course and activity offerings at the various MS and HS. There are huge disparities in the offerings.

Ok, MCPS is removing Blair and other good magnet programs. No more disparities.

They aren't removing it, they are adding more magnets to give more kids opportunities. That's a good thing.

Here we go again. When is a magnet no longer a magnet?

Umm, when it’s no longer “attractive”?

Thanks for the laughs!

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Dufief parents who now support H: Why were you all collectively pissed when the first options had send all of you to Crown. If Wootton is such bad conditions, you should’ve been happy with the original options?

I say those who want to go to Crown, should just go. Sounds like Dufief Travilah and Stone Mill want to go. Add in Rosemont and Fields Road and you got a high school of roughly ~2200, which matches perfectly with Crown’s size. This alleviates overcrowding at QO and Gaithersburg HS.

Leave Wootton to Fallsmead, Lakewood, Cold Spring families. Add in Wayside—half of Potomac Glen is currently split between Lakewood (which feeds into Wootton) and Wayside anyways. Then add in RM neighborhoods including the very walkable neighborhood of Horizon Hill and Fallsgrove, which is walkable as well (a lot of Wootton kids walk to Fallsgrove all the time). This justifies keeping Wootton as a cluster and alleviates overcrowding at RM and Churchill.

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief parents who now support H: Why were you all collectively pissed when the first options had send all of you to Crown. If Wootton is such bad conditions, you should’ve been happy with the original options?

I say those who want to go to Crown, should just go. Sounds like Dufief Travilah and Stone Mill want to go. Add in Rosemont and Fields Road and you got a high school of roughly ~2200, which matches perfectly with Crown’s size. This alleviates overcrowding at QO and Gaithersburg HS.

Leave Wootton to Fallsmead, Lakewood, Cold Spring families. Add in Wayside—half of Potomac Glen is currently split between Lakewood (which feeds into Wootton) and Wayside anyways. Then add in RM neighborhoods including the very walkable neighborhood of Horizon Hill and Fallsgrove, which is walkable as well (a lot of Wootton kids walk to Fallsgrove all the time). This justifies keeping Wootton as a cluster and alleviates overcrowding at RM and Churchill.

Welcome, you must be new. Dufief has been involved in this since June. Dufief was "pissed" because they split Dufief- and only Dufief- out of Wootton. Dufief overlapa constantly with Stone Mill and Travillah kids, that is their community. But the first options only sent Dufief to Crown. If they had sent Dufief, Stone Mill and Travillah all to Crown that at least would have made geographical sense. If you had any idea of the history here you would already know why Dufief was so mad.

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief parents who now support H: Why were you all collectively pissed when the first options had send all of you to Crown. If Wootton is such bad conditions, you should’ve been happy with the original options?

I say those who want to go to Crown, should just go. Sounds like Dufief Travilah and Stone Mill want to go. Add in Rosemont and Fields Road and you got a high school of roughly ~2200, which matches perfectly with Crown’s size. This alleviates overcrowding at QO and Gaithersburg HS.

Leave Wootton to Fallsmead, Lakewood, Cold Spring families. Add in Wayside—half of Potomac Glen is currently split between Lakewood (which feeds into Wootton) and Wayside anyways. Then add in RM neighborhoods including the very walkable neighborhood of Horizon Hill and Fallsgrove, which is walkable as well (a lot of Wootton kids walk to Fallsgrove all the time). This justifies keeping Wootton as a cluster and alleviates overcrowding at RM and Churchill.

This isn't necessarily a bad idea. When you move entire and multiple elementary schools, you would hope the majority of the student population that families thought they were buying into is still mostly the same.

But remember, maybe one or two posters posting their opinion isn't necessarily indicative of the whole area. So there can be a good number of families living in those areas that do indeed want to stay at the current Wootton location.

An anonymous message board isn't a good way to see the overall sentiment of a community. And something like a poll based on current choices and broken out by the individual level would give a better idea.

But either way, it's not like this is a democratic process anyways where the community gets vote for what they want. So don't know how much MCPS would factor in community opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief parents who now support H: Why were you all collectively pissed when the first options had send all of you to Crown. If Wootton is such bad conditions, you should’ve been happy with the original options?

I say those who want to go to Crown, should just go. Sounds like Dufief Travilah and Stone Mill want to go. Add in Rosemont and Fields Road and you got a high school of roughly ~2200, which matches perfectly with Crown’s size. This alleviates overcrowding at QO and Gaithersburg HS.

Leave Wootton to Fallsmead, Lakewood, Cold Spring families. Add in Wayside—half of Potomac Glen is currently split between Lakewood (which feeds into Wootton) and Wayside anyways. Then add in RM neighborhoods including the very walkable neighborhood of Horizon Hill and Fallsgrove, which is walkable as well (a lot of Wootton kids walk to Fallsgrove all the time). This justifies keeping Wootton as a cluster and alleviates overcrowding at RM and Churchill.

Welcome, you must be new. Dufief has been involved in this since June. Dufief was "pissed" because they split Dufief- and only Dufief- out of Wootton. Dufief overlapa constantly with Stone Mill and Travillah kids, that is their community. But the first options only sent Dufief to Crown. If they had sent Dufief, Stone Mill and Travillah all to Crown that at least would have made geographical sense. If you had any idea of the history here you would already know why Dufief was so mad.

Actually not new . Been following this issue from the beginning. Just find it ironic all these Dufief parents are talking about how happy they are getting a new school because Wootton is unsafe. Tell me does Dufief being the only school being sent make the Wootton building any more or less safe? If Dufief parents truly believed Wootton is unsafe, they should have been happy with the original options even if they were the only ones "lucky" enough to be districted to Crown. Or, is the argument about safety changing now?

I'm all for the most geographical sensible boundaries. Precisely why I did not buy in Dufief. By all means, send Dufief, Stone Mill, and Travilah kids to Crown. Don't send the rest of the kids who can walk to Wootton. Leave us in our "unsafe" building.

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^^^ meant to say break it out by individual elementary school level

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief parents who now support H: Why were you all collectively pissed when the first options had send all of you to Crown. If Wootton is such bad conditions, you should’ve been happy with the original options?

I say those who want to go to Crown, should just go. Sounds like Dufief Travilah and Stone Mill want to go. Add in Rosemont and Fields Road and you got a high school of roughly ~2200, which matches perfectly with Crown’s size. This alleviates overcrowding at QO and Gaithersburg HS.

Leave Wootton to Fallsmead, Lakewood, Cold Spring families. Add in Wayside—half of Potomac Glen is currently split between Lakewood (which feeds into Wootton) and Wayside anyways. Then add in RM neighborhoods including the very walkable neighborhood of Horizon Hill and Fallsgrove, which is walkable as well (a lot of Wootton kids walk to Fallsgrove all the time). This justifies keeping Wootton as a cluster and alleviates overcrowding at RM and Churchill.

Welcome, you must be new. Dufief has been involved in this since June. Dufief was "pissed" because they split Dufief- and only Dufief- out of Wootton. Dufief overlapa constantly with Stone Mill and Travillah kids, that is their community. But the first options only sent Dufief to Crown. If they had sent Dufief, Stone Mill and Travillah all to Crown that at least would have made geographical sense. If you had any idea of the history here you would already know why Dufief was so mad.

Actually not new . Been following this issue from the beginning. Just find it ironic all these Dufief parents are talking about how happy they are getting a new school because Wootton is unsafe. Tell me does Dufief being the only school being sent make the Wootton building any more or less safe? If Dufief parents truly believed Wootton is unsafe, they should have been happy with the original options even if they were the only ones "lucky" enough to be districted to Crown. Or, is the argument about safety changing now?

I'm all for the most geographical sensible boundaries. Precisely why I did not buy in Dufief. By all means, send Dufief, Stone Mill, and Travilah kids to Crown. Don't send the rest of the kids who can walk to Wootton. Leave us in our "unsafe" building.

This may be hard for you to understand but I will go slow. Dufief wants to stay with their community, ideally all of the current cluster. They also want a safe building. Assuming the cluster actually stays the same, option H checks both of these boxes. In a perfect world, Wootton gets renovated on Wootton parkway and the cluster remains the same. However this is proving to not be realistic. There is no money.

Separately, Dufief was singled out in the first round and completely removed from their current Wootton community. I am saying it may have gone over much better with the Dufief community if they had also included other Wootton feeders that were actually in the same area as Dufief.

Hope that helps.

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief parents who now support H: Why were you all collectively pissed when the first options had send all of you to Crown. If Wootton is such bad conditions, you should’ve been happy with the original options?

I say those who want to go to Crown, should just go. Sounds like Dufief Travilah and Stone Mill want to go. Add in Rosemont and Fields Road and you got a high school of roughly ~2200, which matches perfectly with Crown’s size. This alleviates overcrowding at QO and Gaithersburg HS.

Leave Wootton to Fallsmead, Lakewood, Cold Spring families. Add in Wayside—half of Potomac Glen is currently split between Lakewood (which feeds into Wootton) and Wayside anyways. Then add in RM neighborhoods including the very walkable neighborhood of Horizon Hill and Fallsgrove, which is walkable as well (a lot of Wootton kids walk to Fallsgrove all the time). This justifies keeping Wootton as a cluster and alleviates overcrowding at RM and Churchill.

Welcome, you must be new. Dufief has been involved in this since June. Dufief was "pissed" because they split Dufief- and only Dufief- out of Wootton. Dufief overlapa constantly with Stone Mill and Travillah kids, that is their community. But the first options only sent Dufief to Crown. If they had sent Dufief, Stone Mill and Travillah all to Crown that at least would have made geographical sense. If you had any idea of the history here you would already know why Dufief was so mad.

Actually not new . Been following this issue from the beginning. Just find it ironic all these Dufief parents are talking about how happy they are getting a new school because Wootton is unsafe. Tell me does Dufief being the only school being sent make the Wootton building any more or less safe? If Dufief parents truly believed Wootton is unsafe, they should have been happy with the original options even if they were the only ones "lucky" enough to be districted to Crown. Or, is the argument about safety changing now?

I'm all for the most geographical sensible boundaries. Precisely why I did not buy in Dufief. By all means, send Dufief, Stone Mill, and Travilah kids to Crown. Don't send the rest of the kids who can walk to Wootton. Leave us in our "unsafe" building.

100%. The very few non-troll Wootton parents who support H are Dufief parents. They all say because option H is the only option where my child will get to go to a safe school. LOL no it's not. Options A-D also get your kid to a "safe school." At least stay consistent. If you support H because you really think Wootton is unsafe, you should logically also support A-D. Safety trumps all. It shouldn't matter if you are the only ES being moved to Crown because your kid's safety should be the most important factor.

Let's be real here. It's not about safety. If it were, Dufief parents would NEVER have pushed back on A-D like they almost UNIVERSALLY DID. It's pretty obvious. Dufief knew under A-D, their property values would have lowered and their kids would have gone from one of the highest ranked HS to an average ranking HS (and that's being generous). They see H as their ONLY saving grace. The logic is if we're doomed either way to go to Crown, might as well make the rest of the cluster move with us so that the rankings will be that drastic of a change.

Just be real and say the truth. Stop saying I support H because it's the only option where my kid gets to a safe school. SAY YOU SUPPORT A-D IF YOU REALLY THINK IT'S ABOUT SAFETY.