How will Wootton or RM be affected by new high school in Crown Farm?

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Dufief will never be moved to QO for equity reasons - it is considered the least wealthy feeder school in the elementary school cluster that feeds up to Wootton.

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief will never be moved to QO for equity reasons - it is considered the least wealthy feeder school in the elementary school cluster that feeds up to Wootton.

That’s wishful thinking. While it may not be as wealthy as some parts of Wootton, it is still more wealthy than many parts of QO or the new Crown HS. They could just swap some areas of different high schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Mcps try to reduce transportation cost or shorten bus transportation time. I have been wondering which ES/MS will be pulled from to the new Crown HS. How many kids can new Crown HS take? I have many asian friends with kids attending stonefield ES now, and they will be really pissed if they will zone to new Crown HS. To them, wotton HS is the main reason that they bought the home at the firat place.

Wootton is at 1883/2120 utilization.

Let's say hypothetically you take Stone Mill and Washingtonian area out of Wootton. Now Wootton is around 1300/2120 utilization. I don't think you're going to be able to backfill and wind up with lower transportation costs and shortened bus rides.

Putting Ritchie Park back at Wootton would fill some of those spots and add a bunch of walkers - lower transportation cost and shorter bus rides.

If that's true, sounds like a no brainer. Wootton's boundaries make no sense now. Most of its students live closer to another HS anyway.

No one is taking StoneMill out of Wootton it's too large. Learn math people.

Richie Park makes sense absolutely.

lol. Yeah, that wouldn't be gerrymandering. Not at all. Lemme guess, you work for the Central Office, BOE, or City Council?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When the rest of King Farm moves to Gaithersburg with the other half, those families are going to riot.

They should put all of King Farm at Crown.

Another one. Mostly MCPS Central Office at King's Farm and tapping their kids into College Gardens.

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief will never be moved to QO for equity reasons - it is considered the least wealthy feeder school in the elementary school cluster that feeds up to Wootton.

Equity? Here we go again. The King's Farm, Richie Park, CO/BOE/City Council crowd are trolling this thread like no tomorrow.

That's because if you look very carefully, Crown was the HS that wasn't needed at all. Every HS with overcapacity is adjacent a HS boundary with undercapacity. But the undercapacity HS are usually lower performing ones. Families tend to avoid or move out of lower performing HS housing, so it's a cycle. This is why the CO people always talk about moving FARMS kids around. FARMS kids statistically are more likely to cause issues and be academic underperformers. They're hoping to dilute the issues at the underperforming schools.

The real solution is something that MCPS CO / BOE / City Council refuses to admit. They need to put in the effort to make underperforming schools more academically competitive, but that means removing the troublemakers from the environment through either suspension or re-assignment to a high-discipline environment at a school designed to handle criminal behavior and violence. If they did this, it would be an admission that current policies are wrong or ineffective, so FARMS swapping is their brain-child solution.

Until the CO / BOE / City Council admits they can't control parents with means like puppets, or that they can't be 'parent replacements' for the kids without means; they're just pissing in the wind.

But whatever. Let the CO/BOE/City Council piss off as many parents and teachers as possible. Eventually there will be enough of an uproar to get them all fired.

[Anonymous]

"City Council"?

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Anonymous wrote:When the rest of King Farm moves to Gaithersburg with the other half, those families are going to riot.

They’ll get over it. Boundaries need to be adjust in the interest of the school system.

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Anonymous wrote:"City Council"?

Professional troll.

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Anonymous wrote:When the rest of King Farm moves to Gaithersburg with the other half, those families are going to riot.

They’ll get over it. Boundaries need to be adjust in the interest of the school system.

Why would it be in the best interest of the school system to bus all KF kids to Gaithersburg HS when the new Crown HS is closer?

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Anonymous wrote:When the rest of King Farm moves to Gaithersburg with the other half, those families are going to riot.

They’ll get over it. Boundaries need to be adjust in the interest of the school system.

Why would it be in the best interest of the school system to bus all KF kids to Gaithersburg HS when the new Crown HS is closer?

GHS and Crown HS are each just over 2 miles from King Farm. Also, proximity is only one of the four factors.

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Anonymous wrote:When the rest of King Farm moves to Gaithersburg with the other half, those families are going to riot.

They’ll get over it. Boundaries need to be adjust in the interest of the school system.

Why would it be in the best interest of the school system to bus all KF kids to Gaithersburg HS when the new Crown HS is closer?

Bus in bus out is never for the interest of the school system. It’s really for some people’s fantasy of making all schools diversified.

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My larger question is why OP has decided he/she doesn't want to be districted to the new school, when no one knows what the district for the school will even be.

Many reasons.

1. Wootton is a top school. If you get redistricted out of Wootton there is no where else to go but down.
2. Getting underwater on your house can cause substantial financial harm you if you experience a sudden situation where you need to sell (death of a spouse, health, job loss). If your house all of sudden was less 80K less than it was a year ago, this is hard to make up for many people. While no one in MOCO should ever count on appreciation, so far most have not lost too much. School rezoning changes this.
3. Its disruptive and sad for kids when their friends go to one school and they get rezoned to another school. Rezoning that splits an elementary school is particularly evil to kids.
4. They already have to get too early and the bus rides take too long. Getting bused ever farther away sucks for anyone. You want your school to be as close as possible.

Wooton is only a "top school" because its boundaries were gerrymandered to exclude low SES students. Normalize the farms rate to the county average and its scores are the same as almost anywhere else.

spoken like a person who doesn't own property in the wootton district. people pay over a million to be near that school. it's the whole reason many move. if the boundaries change and these people are jilted, they officials will pay at the ballot box. thus, this will never happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Mcps try to reduce transportation cost or shorten bus transportation time. I have been wondering which ES/MS will be pulled from to the new Crown HS. How many kids can new Crown HS take? I have many asian friends with kids attending stonefield ES now, and they will be really pissed if they will zone to new Crown HS. To them, wotton HS is the main reason that they bought the home at the firat place.

Wootton is at 1883/2120 utilization.

Let's say hypothetically you take Stone Mill and Washingtonian area out of Wootton. Now Wootton is around 1300/2120 utilization. I don't think you're going to be able to backfill and wind up with lower transportation costs and shortened bus rides.

You never know. They may bus in other ES from Gaithersburg or Rockville to Wootton. It all depends on the next BOE and superintendent.

You never know, but you can always ask yourself if you're suggesting something wildly unprecedented where nobody stands to gain.

They are not going to build Crown High School only to start bussing everyone past each other to far away schools. No BOE or superintendent is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars turning the boundary map into a Jackson Pollock painting.

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Anonymous wrote:When the rest of King Farm moves to Gaithersburg with the other half, those families are going to riot.

They’ll get over it. Boundaries need to be adjust in the interest of the school system.

Why would it be in the best interest of the school system to bus all KF kids to Gaithersburg HS when the new Crown HS is closer?

It isn't. Moving KF to Crown would be a win for all involved. Moving students from nearby overcrowded schools to Crown would be a win for all involved. There are logical paths forward that make everybody happy.

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Anonymous wrote:My larger question is why OP has decided he/she doesn't want to be districted to the new school, when no one knows what the district for the school will even be.

Those taken from the Wootton district are the only ones who will be clearly “downgraded” based on the schools that will make up Crown. Those taken from the Gaithersburg district will be the only ones clearly “upgraded.” The rest, will likely remain the same (Quince Orchard, RM, and Northwest).