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

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Exactly! Its not like they are sending just your kid! The whole school will go - it is the best solution. - Wootton Parent and Homeowner in the cluster - everyone needs to relax

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it’s interesting how some of you seem to think test scores for some of these kids in low performing schools will somehow magically increase in a new building? Some of the lowest performing schools in the county already have the nicest facilities and top of the line equipment. The building makes zero difference for actual performance.

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Have you not been reading? Its not going to be all the same students. It will pull from Gaithersburg HS feeding schools with option H. It shows one in the initial option but plans include pulling around 1000 student from Gaithersburg HS zones.

Can you post a link to the plan that proposes adding 1000 Gaithersburg students + all of Wootton to Crown?

There is no link for adding the 1000 students yet but that was discussed by one of the school board members at a local HOS meeting last night. That being said just look up option H and you will see Rosemont Elementary is listed as being part of the plan. That’s a Gaithersburg HS feeder elementary. Then the plan is to increase from there. But it doesn’t matter, even the one school being in the plan will cause the problems.

So Wootton is so high and mighty that a poor school cannot join them? GTFO.

I really hope Fields Rd, Rosemont and maybe part of Brown Station also goes to Crown along with Wootton. They deserve a good learning environment too.

+1

Maybe Wootton isn't such a great school after all, if all it takes to ruin it is a few hundred kids from a lower middle-class school. If you can't stomach your kids attending school with kids from $700,000 townhomes, I don't know what to tell you.

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Have you not been reading? Its not going to be all the same students. It will pull from Gaithersburg HS feeding schools with option H. It shows one in the initial option but plans include pulling around 1000 student from Gaithersburg HS zones.

Can you post a link to the plan that proposes adding 1000 Gaithersburg students + all of Wootton to Crown?

There is no link for adding the 1000 students yet but that was discussed by one of the school board members at a local HOS meeting last night. That being said just look up option H and you will see Rosemont Elementary is listed as being part of the plan. That’s a Gaithersburg HS feeder elementary. Then the plan is to increase from there. But it doesn’t matter, even the one school being in the plan will cause the problems.

So you won't allow anyone else in your Wootton cluster? That is exactly why the rest of us Wootton parents get creamed on these boards. It is very disgusting to say that a new school added to your cluster "will cause problems". Terrible

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Exactly! Its not like they are sending just your kid! The whole school will go - it is the best solution. - Wootton Parent and Homeowner in the cluster - everyone needs to relax

But it’s not just the whole school. you understand that right?

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Have you not been reading? Its not going to be all the same students. It will pull from Gaithersburg HS feeding schools with option H. It shows one in the initial option but plans include pulling around 1000 student from Gaithersburg HS zones.

Can you post a link to the plan that proposes adding 1000 Gaithersburg students + all of Wootton to Crown?

There is no link for adding the 1000 students yet but that was discussed by one of the school board members at a local HOS meeting last night. That being said just look up option H and you will see Rosemont Elementary is listed as being part of the plan. That’s a Gaithersburg HS feeder elementary. Then the plan is to increase from there. But it doesn’t matter, even the one school being in the plan will cause the problems.

So Wootton is so high and mighty that a poor school cannot join them? GTFO.

I really hope Fields Rd, Rosemont and maybe part of Brown Station also goes to Crown along with Wootton. They deserve a good learning environment too.

Wootton parent here and PP does not speak for the majority of parents. That was a disgusting comment and frankly I think they don't realize that Wootton kids already come from many backgrounds socioeconomically etc. Our school has plenty of "problems" already. The same way her kid avoids them at Wootton they can avoid them at Crown. Except now they will actually have working heat and clean updated bathrooms that are not in the middle of the hallway.

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Anonymous wrote:it’s interesting how some of you seem to think test scores for some of these kids in low performing schools will somehow magically increase in a new building? Some of the lowest performing schools in the county already have the nicest facilities and top of the line equipment. The building makes zero difference for actual performance.

I don't think that, but I also don't think the high-achieving students' test scores will go town just by having a few more poor kids in their building.

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to put it simply. School performance will go down. School ratings will go down. This directly affects property values. It always has and always will. I’m not sure what’s so hard to understand about this?

When you take a low performing school and just move the students to a different school it doesn’t actually change the way those students perform in any way shape or form.

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Anonymous wrote:it’s interesting how some of you seem to think test scores for some of these kids in low performing schools will somehow magically increase in a new building? Some of the lowest performing schools in the county already have the nicest facilities and top of the line equipment. The building makes zero difference for actual performance.

Guess what will make a difference - their peers - help a little bit with that and you never know

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Have you not been reading? Its not going to be all the same students. It will pull from Gaithersburg HS feeding schools with option H. It shows one in the initial option but plans include pulling around 1000 student from Gaithersburg HS zones.

Can you post a link to the plan that proposes adding 1000 Gaithersburg students + all of Wootton to Crown?

There is no link for adding the 1000 students yet but that was discussed by one of the school board members at a local HOS meeting last night. That being said just look up option H and you will see Rosemont Elementary is listed as being part of the plan. That’s a Gaithersburg HS feeder elementary. Then the plan is to increase from there. But it doesn’t matter, even the one school being in the plan will cause the problems.

So Wootton is so high and mighty that a poor school cannot join them? GTFO.

I really hope Fields Rd, Rosemont and maybe part of Brown Station also goes to Crown along with Wootton. They deserve a good learning environment too.

+1

Maybe Wootton isn't such a great school after all, if all it takes to ruin it is a few hundred kids from a lower middle-class school. If you can't stomach your kids attending school with kids from $700,000 townhomes, I don't know what to tell you.

I'm laughing at someone in a 700K townhome being called "lower middle-class." Even in our HCOL area, that's pretty laughable.

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Exactly! Its not like they are sending just your kid! The whole school will go - it is the best solution. - Wootton Parent and Homeowner in the cluster - everyone needs to relax

But it’s not just the whole school. you understand that right?

Of course I understand that - it is the whole school - with some adjustments and some added kids from Gaithersburg or QO or whatever else makes sense geographically - WHO CARES?! - keep the programming the same as far as courses, AOIT, etc and your kid can continue to keep their head down and work hard. I am not concerned for my kids and you should not be either.

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Anonymous wrote:to put it simply. School performance will go down. School ratings will go down. This directly affects property values. It always has and always will. I’m not sure what’s so hard to understand about this?

When you take a low performing school and just move the students to a different school it doesn’t actually change the way those students perform in any way shape or form.

But when you mix them with high performing students it can help

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Anonymous wrote:People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?

Have you not been reading? Its not going to be all the same students. It will pull from Gaithersburg HS feeding schools with option H. It shows one in the initial option but plans include pulling around 1000 student from Gaithersburg HS zones.

Can you post a link to the plan that proposes adding 1000 Gaithersburg students + all of Wootton to Crown?

There is no link for adding the 1000 students yet but that was discussed by one of the school board members at a local HOS meeting last night. That being said just look up option H and you will see Rosemont Elementary is listed as being part of the plan. That’s a Gaithersburg HS feeder elementary. Then the plan is to increase from there. But it doesn’t matter, even the one school being in the plan will cause the problems.

So Wootton is so high and mighty that a poor school cannot join them? GTFO.

I really hope Fields Rd, Rosemont and maybe part of Brown Station also goes to Crown along with Wootton. They deserve a good learning environment too.

+1

Maybe Wootton isn't such a great school after all, if all it takes to ruin it is a few hundred kids from a lower middle-class school. If you can't stomach your kids attending school with kids from $700,000 townhomes, I don't know what to tell you.

I'm laughing at someone in a 700K townhome being called "lower middle-class." Even in our HCOL area, that's pretty laughable.

PP here, and I know. It's just that the ES boundary in question has a high FARMS % but also the part of it that would be zoned for Crown in Option H contains those expensive townhomes.

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I really think alot of Wootton parents are oblivious to the low performing students that your kids are already exposed to....guess what...you don't know about them because your kid keeps their head down and works hard....that will not change

stop spreading hysteria and give us Crown!

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Anonymous wrote:to put it simply. School performance will go down. School ratings will go down. This directly affects property values. It always has and always will. I’m not sure what’s so hard to understand about this?

When you take a low performing school and just move the students to a different school it doesn’t actually change the way those students perform in any way shape or form.

But when you mix them with high performing students it can help

The biggest issue these kids face is lack of parent involvement. It’s the literal number 1 reason these kids fail. Their parents are working sometimes multiple jobs and they are often home alone for extended periods of time. School is simply not the priority. This will not change when their school changes-their family stays the same. I work in a MS in the Gaithersburg district.