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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else see Taylor at the Frost hill wearing a Crown Crawfish hoodie and making the pinching motions?? Unbelievable!!

For real?
Why unbelievable?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else see Taylor at the Frost hill wearing a Crown Crawfish hoodie and making the pinching motions?? Unbelievable!!

For real?
Why unbelievable?

Considering the current boundary study situation-if he did this it is in truly bad taste and quite honestly disrespectful. I’m assuming the frost hill is referring to Frost middle school? So he basically came to flaunt that he is sending those kids to a different high school now before the recommendation has even been made. I hope someone took a picture and it shows up somewhere because this would be pretty insane of him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else see Taylor at the Frost hill wearing a Crown Crawfish hoodie and making the pinching motions?? Unbelievable!!

For real?
Why unbelievable?

Considering the current boundary study situation-if he did this it is in truly bad taste and quite honestly disrespectful. I’m assuming the frost hill is referring to Frost middle school? So he basically came to flaunt that he is sending those kids to a different high school now before the recommendation has even been made. I hope someone took a picture and it shows up somewhere because this would be pretty insane of him.

I have an investment opportunity for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else see Taylor at the Frost hill wearing a Crown Crawfish hoodie and making the pinching motions?? Unbelievable!!

For real?
Why unbelievable?

Considering the current boundary study situation-if he did this it is in truly bad taste and quite honestly disrespectful. I’m assuming the frost hill is referring to Frost middle school? So he basically came to flaunt that he is sending those kids to a different high school now before the recommendation has even been made. I hope someone took a picture and it shows up somewhere because this would be pretty insane of him.

I have an investment opportunity for you.

A bridge, perhaps?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else see Taylor at the Frost hill wearing a Crown Crawfish hoodie and making the pinching motions?? Unbelievable!!

For real?
Why unbelievable?

Considering the current boundary study situation-if he did this it is in truly bad taste and quite honestly disrespectful. I’m assuming the frost hill is referring to Frost middle school? So he basically came to flaunt that he is sending those kids to a different high school now before the recommendation has even been made. I hope someone took a picture and it shows up somewhere because this would be pretty insane of him.

I have an investment opportunity for you.

A bridge, perhaps?

I do really hope it’s false, specifically for Taylor’s sake as it would really be a bad look.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else see Taylor at the Frost hill wearing a Crown Crawfish hoodie and making the pinching motions?? Unbelievable!!

For real?
Why unbelievable?

Considering the current boundary study situation-if he did this it is in truly bad taste and quite honestly disrespectful. I’m assuming the frost hill is referring to Frost middle school? So he basically came to flaunt that he is sending those kids to a different high school now before the recommendation has even been made. I hope someone took a picture and it shows up somewhere because this would be pretty insane of him.

I have an investment opportunity for you.

A bridge, perhaps?

I do really hope it’s false, specifically for Taylor’s sake as it would really be a bad look.

This was quite obviously a joke, what is wrong with you? As if Crown even has a mascot (Crawfish), lol.

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it.

The numbers they're using for the boundary studies only include resident students, so they don't consider RM overcrowded:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puaEmpTqC8q5LpGzPTs2a0dKYQSrvnaR/view

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it.

The numbers they're using for the boundary studies only include resident students, so they don't consider RM overcrowded:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puaEmpTqC8q5LpGzPTs2a0dKYQSrvnaR/view

You mean they don’t count the IB program? That seems to contradict normal building occupancy rules, such as those used by the fire marshal. So is this a question of “when is a student not a student?”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it.

The numbers they're using for the boundary studies only include resident students, so they don't consider RM overcrowded:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puaEmpTqC8q5LpGzPTs2a0dKYQSrvnaR/view

You mean they don’t count the IB program? That seems to contradict normal building occupancy rules, such as those used by the fire marshal. So is this a question of “when is a student not a student?”

MCPS needs a book mobile. Like a library on wheels so students can study while they are sitting in traffic. It's the next step in migratory classrooms like double wides.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it.

The numbers they're using for the boundary studies only include resident students, so they don't consider RM overcrowded:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puaEmpTqC8q5LpGzPTs2a0dKYQSrvnaR/view

You mean they don’t count the IB program? That seems to contradict normal building occupancy rules, such as those used by the fire marshal. So is this a question of “when is a student not a student?”

MCPS needs a book mobile. Like a library on wheels so students can study while they are sitting in traffic. It's the next step in migratory classrooms like double wides.

We aready have portables. Many at our schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it.

The numbers they're using for the boundary studies only include resident students, so they don't consider RM overcrowded:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puaEmpTqC8q5LpGzPTs2a0dKYQSrvnaR/view

You mean they don’t count the IB program? That seems to contradict normal building occupancy rules, such as those used by the fire marshal. So is this a question of “when is a student not a student?”

MCPS needs a book mobile. Like a library on wheels so students can study while they are sitting in traffic. It's the next step in migratory classrooms like double wides.

We aready have portables. Many at our schools.

I grew up in a rural county on 50 acre farm and had a shorter school commute. I can't believe people in the DC convenience culture would tolerate that. Like most of these people won't even shovel their walk on a snow day to go to school.

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Anonymous wrote:How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools. Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem. A) most of the schools are overfilled. Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space. B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA.

It’s not relatively cheap. If it is fundraise and do it.

Why? MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much? Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist.

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved. No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it.

The numbers they're using for the boundary studies only include resident students, so they don't consider RM overcrowded:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puaEmpTqC8q5LpGzPTs2a0dKYQSrvnaR/view

You mean they don’t count the IB program? That seems to contradict normal building occupancy rules, such as those used by the fire marshal. So is this a question of “when is a student not a student?”

MCPS needs a book mobile. Like a library on wheels so students can study while they are sitting in traffic. It's the next step in migratory classrooms like double wides.

We aready have portables. Many at our schools.

I grew up in a rural county on 50 acre farm and had a shorter school commute. I can't believe people in the DC convenience culture would tolerate that. Like most of these people won't even shovel their walk on a snow day to go to school.

The least MCPS could do is have virtual classes on snow days. Kids have Chromebooks, as well as personal computers, tablets, and phones.

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I am hearing that the current weather issues are making it impossible to hold the necessary in person meetings to come up with any creative solutions other than H. Feeling defeated.