Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
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Anonymous
Seems like lawsuits against MCPS aren’t a waste of time if the Supreme Court decision is any indication. Unfortunately, MCPS didn’t learn, which is odd for a school leader. |
Anonymous
Targeting Minnesota?! Lawd. Let’s U-turn from that or this really will be the longest thread in DCUM history. |
Anonymous
Because he got smacked back again today. The BOE refused to vote on the Charter School. |
Anonymous
Your comment doesn’t even make sense. |
Anonymous
| What did everyone think of the speeches today? |
Anonymous
Why. It has serious issues and should be shut down. |
Anonymous
It was just pushed back to the Feb. 5 meeting. |
Anonymous
It has exactly the same issues as MCPS. |
Anonymous
True and Taylor and the BOE need to be held accountable. |
Anonymous
I think most made some.good points and had good attitudes. There were a couple cringe-worthy ones - the last woman on video was just . . . no. I'll concede, I've been somewhat persuaded. It would have been nice to hear the board respond to some of the points, as they may have information that rebuts or clarifies, but I think I'm now convinced that, at a minimum, there hasn't been enough substantive analysis of the big picture, including planned housing developments, traffic patterns, etc. I could be wrong - maybe the Board has a whole bunch of non-public information supporting H, but today I heard a lot of good questions that I haven't heard actual answers to. If a decision has to be made in the next month, I suspect the Board will kick the can - propose using Crown as a holding school while Damascus is renovated then revisit in 2-3 years to decide what to do long-term. But, who knows? |
Anonymous
If BOE decided SSIMS closure and charter school closure are too rushed, then they should not be double standards on Wootton. Wootton deserves the due process as well. |
Anonymous
Careful. Asking for same treatment & due process? How dare you! You must be privileged. Anytime Wootton asks for fair treatment, people act like Wootton is committing some type of crime. |
Anonymous
I learned a lot actually. It does sound like MCPS jumped the gun and there's too many unanswered questions. Why did they go back and amend the scope of the boundary study for EFG and not H? Feels like H was a last minute add, and I'm not comfortable going forward with it was so many unanswered questions. I also really really appreciated Magruder's testimony. It was powerful. There's no conceivable argument I can come up with for why Magruder or any other school would want Wootton over Crown. Here's a copy and paste: Good afternoon Dr. Taylor, President Rivera-Oven, and Members of the Board, My name is Kim Glassman. I am the Magruder PTSA President, and parent of two MCPS students. I am testifying today to encourage the Board to reject Option H, and reject using the current Wootton as a holding school. In the current plan, despite having the worst Facility Condition Index of all MCPS high schools, Magruder may finally reach the front of the line to be renovated around 2031, assuming there are no further delays between now and then. Option H makes more delays even more likely. I have spent years hearing about the dilapidated conditions at Wootton. Though our FCI is worse, I’m told Wootton appears worse. If the Wootton facility is so bad that Wootton must move into Crown right away, then it is not good enough for our less connected, quieter, and less wealthy community to be used as a holding school. If the mold, mildew, rat infestation, gas leaks, HVAC, and plumbing issues are too much, then it is certainly not going to be better 5 years from now when it is finally Magruder’s turn. Preparing Wootton to be a holding school would take more time and more money, which only pushes Magruder’s long overdue renovation out even further. Magruder does not have more time to wait. Our cluster is divided between three BOE districts. Flower Hill, Mill Creek and Resnik ES are in district one. Shady Grove is in district two, and Magruder, Redland, and its feeder elementary schools are in district 5. We are a community with a high percentage of FARMS, ever FARMS, and EML families. There are already significant transportation barriers in our community. There is no bus that runs down Snouffer School to Magruder, which makes it challenging for district 1 families to access Magruder. The shortest route from Flower Hill to Wootton requires a bus to the metro, a metro ride to Rockville, and then another bus to Wootton. The high school is often used as a larger space for events for the cluster and by feeder schools, such as for concerts or promotion ceremonies. It takes twice as long to get from the District 1 area to Wootton as it does to get to the Crown area. Making Wootton our "home" for years adds a layer of inaccessibility for our families. I support having a holding school. I do not support Wootton being our holding school. Magruder needs to be renovated as quickly as possible. We cannot afford more delays by first preparing a facility we know is almost as bad as ours to be a holding school. What will it take to prioritize Magruder? Is it another ceiling falling during a show, perhaps landing on the audience? More days of missed instruction due to lack of A/C? We were told that the order of renovation and construction is decided based on math. Mathematically, Magruder is the next high school after Damascus and 7th on the overall list of schools prioritized for major construction projects. In Option H, Wootton jumps the line, and Magruder has to wait even longer. Please reject Option H. Thank you, Kim Glassman |
Anonymous
What exactly does Wootton want? If you want to stay take your turn in line for repairs like the rest of us. If you want a new building take crown. |
Anonymous
Nor always her biggest fan but she is right and makes good points. |