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

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Anonymous wrote:FFS, get ready folks, tomorrow's testimony includes Wootton flexing their money muscles and overtly trying to intimidate (threaten?) the BOE with lawsuits because they may not get their way.

This gem of a parent starts with, "I’m the one sending legal notices....You’re probably tired of hearing from me. I’m definitely tired of writing them" So, just a thought: no one asked you to do that so maybe take a break?

She then says, "My role is not to advise—you have counsel for that—but to caution that we are watching closely. Here’s just a few of the many legal issues we are tracking."

First of all, yea, pretty sure that's intimidation at it's finest. But also, she acknowledges they have counsel who is advising them and unless she thinks they are literal idiots, said counsel is not allowing them to do something illegal.

Or, maybe in typical Wootton fashion, she's just the smartest of them all?

Is she even a lawyer? I'm too lazy to google but I do hope she shows up in a Judge's robe tomorrow for her testimony.

Let them sue.

Be careful what you wish for. Didn’t MCPS get spanked by the Supreme Court last year? I’m quite sure that MCPS’ lawyers are going to be very careful about doing anything that even comes close to the legal line.

You are very, very wrong. MCPS’ lawyers only get paid big bucks when MCPS is sued.

MCPS lawyers lol aren’t even competent enough to argue in SCOTUS. MCPS lawyers get paid the same annual salary regardless of whether they get sued or not—which is why they don’t care and aren’t competent. When shit hits the fan lol MCPS hired out and pays insane amount of money for third party lawyers because they know their own lawyers are inept. Just Google who actually represented MCPS in the Supreme Court cases—wasn’t MCPS in house lawyers.

They sure do love wasting taxpayer money.

You are both woefully misinformed. MCPS' lawyers don't represent MCPS when they get sued . MCPS participates in the self-insurance fund, so when MCPS is sued the County Attorney represents them. It's a weird system because the County Attorney doesn't advise MCPS and so can't make sure they do/don't do the things for which they're getting sued. By the time the County Attorney gets involved, whatever happened has happened.

If the County Attorney's office is conflicted out of a case or maxed out on workload and doesn't think it has the capacity for a case, then outside counsel is retained by the County Attorney, with approval from the County Council.

And this is one of the many reasons we are where we are.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS, get ready folks, tomorrow's testimony includes Wootton flexing their money muscles and overtly trying to intimidate (threaten?) the BOE with lawsuits because they may not get their way.

This gem of a parent starts with, "I’m the one sending legal notices....You’re probably tired of hearing from me. I’m definitely tired of writing them" So, just a thought: no one asked you to do that so maybe take a break?

She then says, "My role is not to advise—you have counsel for that—but to caution that we are watching closely. Here’s just a few of the many legal issues we are tracking."

First of all, yea, pretty sure that's intimidation at it's finest. But also, she acknowledges they have counsel who is advising them and unless she thinks they are literal idiots, said counsel is not allowing them to do something illegal.

Or, maybe in typical Wootton fashion, she's just the smartest of them all?

Is she even a lawyer? I'm too lazy to google but I do hope she shows up in a Judge's robe tomorrow for her testimony.

Let them sue.

Be careful what you wish for. Didn’t MCPS get spanked by the Supreme Court last year? I’m quite sure that MCPS’ lawyers are going to be very careful about doing anything that even comes close to the legal line.

You are very, very wrong. MCPS’ lawyers only get paid big bucks when MCPS is sued.

MCPS lawyers lol aren’t even competent enough to argue in SCOTUS. MCPS lawyers get paid the same annual salary regardless of whether they get sued or not—which is why they don’t care and aren’t competent. When shit hits the fan lol MCPS hired out and pays insane amount of money for third party lawyers because they know their own lawyers are inept. Just Google who actually represented MCPS in the Supreme Court cases—wasn’t MCPS in house lawyers.

They sure do love wasting taxpayer money.

The point about referencing the Supreme Court case is because MCPS died on a hill when it had several reasonable alternatives to resolve the dispute. Instead, it set a bad precedent that will live for decades.

MCPS has alternatives to Option H, but if it pushes for that option, litigation will happen and it will look stupid again. If there is any hint of DEI or discrimination involved, the case might garner White House and DOJ attention. Nobody wants that during an election year.

I'm not Wootton educated so bear with me and my smaller brain here--can you clarify who from our current administration you think will punish MCPS for discrimination? I would think that they either won't GAD or will support the fiscal responsibility of the school system bc truly, their interest in matters of discrimination or children is seemingly nonexistent.

I’m sorry you didn’t graduate from Wootton. Sounds like the pain runs deep. You should seek therapy.

It’s not necessarily punishment. Just unwanted attention. Closing a top school to cover up incompetence in building a school based on inaccurate enrollment numbers. Then treating the kids from that top school like trading cards.

MCPS could have rebuilt Wootton years ago and then expanded its boundary to Horizon Hill to ease overcrowding at RM. alternatively, it could have done the same to absorb another neighborhood in North Potomac. Wootton families would have been far less vocal. MCPS might have lost the Crown land, but that would have been cheaper than building an under enrolled school.

DP here. I'd agree with you in every word that MCPS made a series of stupid mistakes that eventually led to the current unfortunate situation. But it's not the time to discuss about what could have happened, but what could be done to remedy the situation, right? The option "W" raised by the petition seems quite unrealistic and talking out of the context.

The remedy is not to make things worse by closing Wootton. Use the excess capacity at Crown as holding and remediate the immediate issues at Wootton. How is this unrealistic?

Elrich recently denied MCPS’ desire to expand existing facilities, so it seems clear to me that he prefers to remediate existing ones.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS, get ready folks, tomorrow's testimony includes Wootton flexing their money muscles and overtly trying to intimidate (threaten?) the BOE with lawsuits because they may not get their way.

This gem of a parent starts with, "I’m the one sending legal notices....You’re probably tired of hearing from me. I’m definitely tired of writing them" So, just a thought: no one asked you to do that so maybe take a break?

She then says, "My role is not to advise—you have counsel for that—but to caution that we are watching closely. Here’s just a few of the many legal issues we are tracking."

First of all, yea, pretty sure that's intimidation at it's finest. But also, she acknowledges they have counsel who is advising them and unless she thinks they are literal idiots, said counsel is not allowing them to do something illegal.

Or, maybe in typical Wootton fashion, she's just the smartest of them all?

Is she even a lawyer? I'm too lazy to google but I do hope she shows up in a Judge's robe tomorrow for her testimony.

Let them sue.

Be careful what you wish for. Didn’t MCPS get spanked by the Supreme Court last year? I’m quite sure that MCPS’ lawyers are going to be very careful about doing anything that even comes close to the legal line.

You are very, very wrong. MCPS’ lawyers only get paid big bucks when MCPS is sued.

MCPS lawyers lol aren’t even competent enough to argue in SCOTUS. MCPS lawyers get paid the same annual salary regardless of whether they get sued or not—which is why they don’t care and aren’t competent. When shit hits the fan lol MCPS hired out and pays insane amount of money for third party lawyers because they know their own lawyers are inept. Just Google who actually represented MCPS in the Supreme Court cases—wasn’t MCPS in house lawyers.

They sure do love wasting taxpayer money.

You are both woefully misinformed. MCPS' lawyers don't represent MCPS when they get sued . MCPS participates in the self-insurance fund, so when MCPS is sued the County Attorney represents them. It's a weird system because the County Attorney doesn't advise MCPS and so can't make sure they do/don't do the things for which they're getting sued. By the time the County Attorney gets involved, whatever happened has happened.

If the County Attorney's office is conflicted out of a case or maxed out on workload and doesn't think it has the capacity for a case, then outside counsel is retained by the County Attorney, with approval from the County Council.

The County only represents MCPS in a very few types of cases. Workers comp cases are one of the cases the County routinely takes on. The rest? They go directly to outside counsel. Procurement, special education, property all go directly to outside counsel charging current hourly rates for attorney time.

You are fantasizing if you think the County Council retains outside counsel. That never happens. Outside counsel are retained by the Board of Education. And you are out of your mind if you think the County Council plays any role in approving the MCPS outside lawyers.

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I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

No, it did not have to be built. I love how everyone thinks they know facts when they don’t. Go look up the deed. It says it can also be used as a public park. If a school truly isn’t needed, why waste millions build it. It could’ve been a great park for community use.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS, get ready folks, tomorrow's testimony includes Wootton flexing their money muscles and overtly trying to intimidate (threaten?) the BOE with lawsuits because they may not get their way.

This gem of a parent starts with, "I’m the one sending legal notices....You’re probably tired of hearing from me. I’m definitely tired of writing them" So, just a thought: no one asked you to do that so maybe take a break?

She then says, "My role is not to advise—you have counsel for that—but to caution that we are watching closely. Here’s just a few of the many legal issues we are tracking."

First of all, yea, pretty sure that's intimidation at it's finest. But also, she acknowledges they have counsel who is advising them and unless she thinks they are literal idiots, said counsel is not allowing them to do something illegal.

Or, maybe in typical Wootton fashion, she's just the smartest of them all?

Is she even a lawyer? I'm too lazy to google but I do hope she shows up in a Judge's robe tomorrow for her testimony.

Let them sue.

Be careful what you wish for. Didn’t MCPS get spanked by the Supreme Court last year? I’m quite sure that MCPS’ lawyers are going to be very careful about doing anything that even comes close to the legal line.

You are very, very wrong. MCPS’ lawyers only get paid big bucks when MCPS is sued.

MCPS lawyers lol aren’t even competent enough to argue in SCOTUS. MCPS lawyers get paid the same annual salary regardless of whether they get sued or not—which is why they don’t care and aren’t competent. When shit hits the fan lol MCPS hired out and pays insane amount of money for third party lawyers because they know their own lawyers are inept. Just Google who actually represented MCPS in the Supreme Court cases—wasn’t MCPS in house lawyers.

They sure do love wasting taxpayer money.

The point about referencing the Supreme Court case is because MCPS died on a hill when it had several reasonable alternatives to resolve the dispute. Instead, it set a bad precedent that will live for decades.

MCPS has alternatives to Option H, but if it pushes for that option, litigation will happen and it will look stupid again. If there is any hint of DEI or discrimination involved, the case might garner White House and DOJ attention. Nobody wants that during an election year.

I'm not Wootton educated so bear with me and my smaller brain here--can you clarify who from our current administration you think will punish MCPS for discrimination? I would think that they either won't GAD or will support the fiscal responsibility of the school system bc truly, their interest in matters of discrimination or children is seemingly nonexistent.

I’m sorry you didn’t graduate from Wootton. Sounds like the pain runs deep. You should seek therapy.

It’s not necessarily punishment. Just unwanted attention. Closing a top school to cover up incompetence in building a school based on inaccurate enrollment numbers. Then treating the kids from that top school like trading cards.

MCPS could have rebuilt Wootton years ago and then expanded its boundary to Horizon Hill to ease overcrowding at RM. alternatively, it could have done the same to absorb another neighborhood in North Potomac. Wootton families would have been far less vocal. MCPS might have lost the Crown land, but that would have been cheaper than building an under enrolled school.

DP here. I'd agree with you in every word that MCPS made a series of stupid mistakes that eventually led to the current unfortunate situation. But it's not the time to discuss about what could have happened, but what could be done to remedy the situation, right? The option "W" raised by the petition seems quite unrealistic and talking out of the context.

The remedy is not to make things worse by closing Wootton. Use the excess capacity at Crown as holding and remediate the immediate issues at Wootton. How is this unrealistic?

Elrich recently denied MCPS’ desire to expand existing facilities, so it seems clear to me that he prefers to remediate existing ones.

So you'd agree on option E with added revision to include Wootton on the waitlist? The latter belongs to CIP, which kicks out Wootton several times in the past, and I believe adding Wootton on the waitlist, if this is the final approved boundary plan, will have no legal binding to assure Wootton get fixed after Damascus and MaGruder.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

No, it did not have to be built. I love how everyone thinks they know facts when they don’t. Go look up the deed. It says it can also be used as a public park. If a school truly isn’t needed, why waste millions build it. It could’ve been a great park for community use.

Exactly. This is a stupid mistake that MCPS traps itself in. MCPS could have returned this gift back to Gaithersburg city without any cost.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

No, it did not have to be built. I love how everyone thinks they know facts when they don’t. Go look up the deed. It says it can also be used as a public park. If a school truly isn’t needed, why waste millions build it. It could’ve been a great park for community use.

dp.. *at the time* there was a need for the two schools, but with declining enrollment and huge budget cuts, *now* it's not necessary.

MCPS has been accused of not pivoting fast enough (makes sense as it is a large school district), but now, they are trying to, and they are still being criticized for it.

Either way, MCPS is damned if they do, and damned if they don't. So, they should just choose the option that makes the most financial sense, and that is *now* H.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

If it was a gift, why did it have to be built? Gift can be returned for better use. It should have been used as a holding school instead of continuing to burden Wootton with a poor decision.

Do you understand what Wootton residents are being asked to sacrifice? First, their school was closed and students were relocated with a boundary change. Then, within the next decade, the school is overcrowded and the community is split again and forced to move once more due to another boundary change. Why should the same group of residents endure repeated disruption just to cover up MCPS’s mistake?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

No, it did not have to be built. I love how everyone thinks they know facts when they don’t. Go look up the deed. It says it can also be used as a public park. If a school truly isn’t needed, why waste millions build it. It could’ve been a great park for community use.

dp.. *at the time* there was a need for the two schools, but with declining enrollment and huge budget cuts, *now* it's not necessary.

MCPS has been accused of not pivoting fast enough (makes sense as it is a large school district), but now, they are trying to, and they are still being criticized for it.

Either way, MCPS is damned if they do, and damned if they don't. So, they should just choose the option that makes the most financial sense, and that is *now* H.

MCPS projection for enrollment has been consistently above actual numbers since year 2018, and this discrepancy continues to rise until 2025 when they finally decide to fix it. If they could realize and acknowledge the wrong projection back in 2020 when everyone is trapped in home, they could have avoided this bad decision.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

No, it did not have to be built. I love how everyone thinks they know facts when they don’t. Go look up the deed. It says it can also be used as a public park. If a school truly isn’t needed, why waste millions build it. It could’ve been a great park for community use.

dp.. *at the time* there was a need for the two schools, but with declining enrollment and huge budget cuts, *now* it's not necessary.

MCPS has been accused of not pivoting fast enough (makes sense as it is a large school district), but now, they are trying to, and they are still being criticized for it.

Either way, MCPS is damned if they do, and damned if they don't. So, they should just choose the option that makes the most financial sense, and that is *now* H.

They can just pivot to crown as holding school. Why make so complicated for others

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Anonymous wrote:FFS, get ready folks, tomorrow's testimony includes Wootton flexing their money muscles and overtly trying to intimidate (threaten?) the BOE with lawsuits because they may not get their way.

This gem of a parent starts with, "I’m the one sending legal notices....You’re probably tired of hearing from me. I’m definitely tired of writing them" So, just a thought: no one asked you to do that so maybe take a break?

She then says, "My role is not to advise—you have counsel for that—but to caution that we are watching closely. Here’s just a few of the many legal issues we are tracking."

First of all, yea, pretty sure that's intimidation at it's finest. But also, she acknowledges they have counsel who is advising them and unless she thinks they are literal idiots, said counsel is not allowing them to do something illegal.

Or, maybe in typical Wootton fashion, she's just the smartest of them all?

Is she even a lawyer? I'm too lazy to google but I do hope she shows up in a Judge's robe tomorrow for her testimony.

Let them sue.

Be careful what you wish for. Didn’t MCPS get spanked by the Supreme Court last year? I’m quite sure that MCPS’ lawyers are going to be very careful about doing anything that even comes close to the legal line.

You are very, very wrong. MCPS’ lawyers only get paid big bucks when MCPS is sued.

MCPS lawyers lol aren’t even competent enough to argue in SCOTUS. MCPS lawyers get paid the same annual salary regardless of whether they get sued or not—which is why they don’t care and aren’t competent. When shit hits the fan lol MCPS hired out and pays insane amount of money for third party lawyers because they know their own lawyers are inept. Just Google who actually represented MCPS in the Supreme Court cases—wasn’t MCPS in house lawyers.

They sure do love wasting taxpayer money.

The point about referencing the Supreme Court case is because MCPS died on a hill when it had several reasonable alternatives to resolve the dispute. Instead, it set a bad precedent that will live for decades.

MCPS has alternatives to Option H, but if it pushes for that option, litigation will happen and it will look stupid again. If there is any hint of DEI or discrimination involved, the case might garner White House and DOJ attention. Nobody wants that during an election year.

I'm not Wootton educated so bear with me and my smaller brain here--can you clarify who from our current administration you think will punish MCPS for discrimination? I would think that they either won't GAD or will support the fiscal responsibility of the school system bc truly, their interest in matters of discrimination or children is seemingly nonexistent.

I’m sorry you didn’t graduate from Wootton. Sounds like the pain runs deep. You should seek therapy.

It’s not necessarily punishment. Just unwanted attention. Closing a top school to cover up incompetence in building a school based on inaccurate enrollment numbers. Then treating the kids from that top school like trading cards.

MCPS could have rebuilt Wootton years ago and then expanded its boundary to Horizon Hill to ease overcrowding at RM. alternatively, it could have done the same to absorb another neighborhood in North Potomac. Wootton families would have been far less vocal. MCPS might have lost the Crown land, but that would have been cheaper than building an under enrolled school.

DP here. I'd agree with you in every word that MCPS made a series of stupid mistakes that eventually led to the current unfortunate situation. But it's not the time to discuss about what could have happened, but what could be done to remedy the situation, right? The option "W" raised by the petition seems quite unrealistic and talking out of the context.

The remedy is not to make things worse by closing Wootton. Use the excess capacity at Crown as holding and remediate the immediate issues at Wootton. How is this unrealistic?

Elrich recently denied MCPS’ desire to expand existing facilities, so it seems clear to me that he prefers to remediate existing ones.

So you'd agree on option E with added revision to include Wootton on the waitlist? The latter belongs to CIP, which kicks out Wootton several times in the past, and I believe adding Wootton on the waitlist, if this is the final approved boundary plan, will have no legal binding to assure Wootton get fixed after Damascus and MaGruder.

It may not be legally binding and it yes, it will mean that Wootton needs to fight to get on the CIP, but it seems Wootton is finally being taken seriously in terms of the condition of the school AND the county is moving in the direction of maintaining existing schools versus building new ones.

Crown as a holding school slows down all of this, prevents Wootton from being shut down and allows for additional pivoting down the road. There will be more boundary studies in ten years no matter what option is chosen. People thinking A-D or H "lock it in" are fooling themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the main point needs to be that we DO NOT HAVE THE STUDENTS to justify two schools. We never did!

Crown was a gift so had to be built. IT only makes sense to use it and change the usage of Wootton until the time comes that the enrollment justifies another high school.

No, it did not have to be built. I love how everyone thinks they know facts when they don’t. Go look up the deed. It says it can also be used as a public park. If a school truly isn’t needed, why waste millions build it. It could’ve been a great park for community use.

dp.. *at the time* there was a need for the two schools, but with declining enrollment and huge budget cuts, *now* it's not necessary.

MCPS has been accused of not pivoting fast enough (makes sense as it is a large school district), but now, they are trying to, and they are still being criticized for it.

Either way, MCPS is damned if they do, and damned if they don't. So, they should just choose the option that makes the most financial sense, and that is *now* H.

1. This could have all been avoided if they had half a brain cell to use more accurate data. Why use pre covid data?
2. H is by no means the most financial sense. H makes Wootton a holding school, which is less accessible than Crown. Estimates show that to repair/make Wootton Parkway to accommodate that many bussed would be 70 million. Not to mention the cost of bussing everyone to Wootton, which is farther away for Damascus and Magruder and every school that needs a holding school for renovations—that’s not my claim, btw that’s literally what analysis published by Mcps shows. Then you got to bus everyone from Wootton out.
3. You also have to renovate Wootton for it to even be a holding school, which means either way—even under H—Wootton has to be renovated. The people who say Mcps doesn’t have money to fix the Wootton and crown simply don’t get it. Under H, money literally will be sent to fix Wootton. This a non unique cost.

Let’s call a spade a spade.
H is not about money.
The option that saves the most amount of money is E or F.
H is politically more attractive.
The county gets to open a brand new school and transplant some of the best students in there and say wow look at us, our new school is immediately top ranked.

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All of this is brought to you by the geniuses who lost $40 million of state money for renovations due to submission error….

But surely these same people are always competent and would never do anything illegal or try to manipulate the system to cover their incompetency right?


Source:
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/10/error-causes-montgomery-co-to-lose-40-million-for-school-improvements
https://wjla.com/news/local/maryland-montgomery-county-public-schools-mcps-superintendent-reveals-loss-393-million-dollars-state-aid-submission-error-dr-thomas-taylor-capital-budget-fiscal-year-2026-council-education-culture-committee-capital-improvement-program-projects
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/10/24/mcps-39-3-million-shortfall

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Anonymous wrote:All of this is brought to you by the geniuses who lost $40 million of state money for renovations due to submission error….

But surely these same people are always competent and would never do anything illegal or try to manipulate the system to cover their incompetency right?


Source:
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/10/error-causes-montgomery-co-to-lose-40-million-for-school-improvements
https://wjla.com/news/local/maryland-montgomery-county-public-schools-mcps-superintendent-reveals-loss-393-million-dollars-state-aid-submission-error-dr-thomas-taylor-capital-budget-fiscal-year-2026-council-education-culture-committee-capital-improvement-program-projects
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/10/24/mcps-39-3-million-shortfall

First time seeing this. WOW, no wonder we “don’t” have money. Mcps lost 40 million because they can’t fill out forms right? I always knew they were incompetent but…this is a new low.

For the folks who keep saying MCPS has attorneys and surely would not be doing anything that is illegal…
1) they already have been ruled to do many illegal things (see court cases)
2) their ineptitude is….just wow
3) you should know where there are lawsuits like the last SCOTUS case, they hired out third party lawyers. Google those lawyers. Their hourly fee is usually somewhere north of $2,000 per hour. But yea Mcps “doesn’t” have money. Poor poor incompetent fools