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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

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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.

Many of us have shoveled multiple times but it hasn’t helped. We still have a 30 minute bus ride to our local school.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

H isn't unpopular county-wide. There are just a few people who don't like it. Most people don't want to pay the extra taxes that would be necessary to keep Wootton as a segregated school.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

H isn't unpopular county-wide. There are just a few people who don't like it. Most people don't want to pay the extra taxes that would be necessary to keep Wootton as a segregated school.

You’re still here? It’s clear that you’re in favor of Option H because of your bias against Wootton. We get it. Please list the extra taxes you will be forced to pay solely because Wootton stays in its current facility with minor remediation. And before you repeat your fundraising point, there is money available. Let’s leave Wootton where it is for now and do a forensic audit of MCPS’ books. I’m sure you aren’t opposed to rooting out fraud, waste, abuse, and sweetheart sole source procurements. While we’re doing that, let’s find out of there have been any communications with Crown developers about moving Wootton into Crown. I’m sure you also aren’t opposed to transparency.

There are lots of unanswered questions that need answers before an irrevocable decision is made that will disrupt the lives of 10,000+ voters and cost the county millions of dollars.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

H isn't unpopular county-wide. There are just a few people who don't like it. Most people don't want to pay the extra taxes that would be necessary to keep Wootton as a segregated school.

Wootton, Magruder and Damascus are all against H. How is it popular? Only crown people think it’s popular. I don’t think MCPS can force three clusters to accept something they don’t want.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

H isn't unpopular county-wide. There are just a few people who don't like it. Most people don't want to pay the extra taxes that would be necessary to keep Wootton as a segregated school.

Wootton, Magruder and Damascus are all against H. How is it popular? Only crown people think it’s popular. I don’t think MCPS can force three clusters to accept something they don’t want.

+1. Mr./Ms. Troll will now respond with “what’s your solution then?” We’ve given our solution, namely, maintain the status quo and use Crown’s excess capacity as a holding school. Wootton can be remediated while the permanent enrollment picture of Crown becomes clearer. There is money for this, as apparently MCPS’ desire is to use Wootton’s current building as a holding school. This means remediation is required regardless whether Wootton closes and moves to Crown.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Where are you hearing this? Seriously, give us a source because zoom has been a thing since even before the pandemic and now is almost the preferred way of meeting so I'm going to need a source for the necessity of in person meetings to figure this mess out. But anyway, sorry you feel defeated. That is never good to feel.

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Looks like the Maryland Building Industry Association is opposed to Option H, claiming that it “would permanently reduce high school capacity in a designated growth area and disrupt the alignment between school infrastructure and planned residential development.”

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/01/27/builders-oppose-relocating-wootton-high-school/

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the Maryland Building Industry Association is opposed to Option H, claiming that it “would permanently reduce high school capacity in a designated growth area and disrupt the alignment between school infrastructure and planned residential development.”

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/01/27/builders-oppose-relocating-wootton-high-school/

Wow. Opposition is snowballing (pun intended).

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the Maryland Building Industry Association is opposed to Option H, claiming that it “would permanently reduce high school capacity in a designated growth area and disrupt the alignment between school infrastructure and planned residential development.”

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/01/27/builders-oppose-relocating-wootton-high-school/

Why do they characterize using Wootton as a holding facility as long-term, but using Crown as a holding facility as temporary? Wouldn't the use of either building as a holding facility be expected to cover the same period of time?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

H isn't unpopular county-wide. There are just a few people who don't like it. Most people don't want to pay the extra taxes that would be necessary to keep Wootton as a segregated school.

Extra taxes--give me a break!

We already pay more than enough taxes for thing I do not want. Happy to have my current large tax bill appropriated to fund an already excellent school, like Wootton (not my cluster, in case you wonder).

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the Maryland Building Industry Association is opposed to Option H, claiming that it “would permanently reduce high school capacity in a designated growth area and disrupt the alignment between school infrastructure and planned residential development.”

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/01/27/builders-oppose-relocating-wootton-high-school/

Why do they characterize using Wootton as a holding facility as long-term, but using Crown as a holding facility as temporary? Wouldn't the use of either building as a holding facility be expected to cover the same period of time?

Because if Wootton is a temporary holding school, then crown is also a temporary holding school for Wootton. Why need 2 holding schools?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nice try. Poor trolling. We had virtual meetings (both public and internal administrative) during the pandemic. Any attempt to use the current weather as an excuse to ram through the highly unpopular Option H will be met with even more resistance than it has been to this point.

H isn't unpopular county-wide. There are just a few people who don't like it. Most people don't want to pay the extra taxes that would be necessary to keep Wootton as a segregated school.

Wootton, Magruder and Damascus are all against H. How is it popular? Only crown people think it’s popular. I don’t think MCPS can force three clusters to accept something they don’t want.

+1. Mr./Ms. Troll will now respond with “what’s your solution then?” We’ve given our solution, namely, maintain the status quo and use Crown’s excess capacity as a holding school. Wootton can be remediated while the permanent enrollment picture of Crown becomes clearer. There is money for this, as apparently MCPS’ desire is to use Wootton’s current building as a holding school. This means remediation is required regardless whether Wootton closes and moves to Crown.

You are the ones who started this. Talk to your advocates to back down. Remediation will happen but not on your schedule. The mold will always be there.