What ever happened to Crown HS?

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Anyway, it will make these roads as congested as 355. Believe or not, you’ll see a lot of parents driving their kids rather than walking

Well, then a lot of parents will be sitting in a lot of self-induced traffic. Or they could tell their kids to walk, bike, skateboard, or take public transportation, like other kids do. Their choice.

That will impact all commuters who need to access 200/270 and these big roads in that area. That’s just the reality.

Just like all the other high schools in Montgomery County do, at arrival time, due to parents who choose to drive their children. That's just the reality.

Not every high school is at the major entrances of multiple highways. It’s gonna have significant impact on midcounty traffic.

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Anyway, it will make these roads as congested as 355. Believe or not, you’ll see a lot of parents driving their kids rather than walking

Well, then a lot of parents will be sitting in a lot of self-induced traffic. Or they could tell their kids to walk, bike, skateboard, or take public transportation, like other kids do. Their choice.

That will impact all commuters who need to access 200/270 and these big roads in that area. That’s just the reality.

Just like all the other high schools in Montgomery County do, at arrival time, due to parents who choose to drive their children. That's just the reality.

Not every high school is at the major entrances of multiple highways. It’s gonna have significant impact on midcounty traffic.

Yeah, and the high school at Crown also won't be at the major entrances of multiple highways. But if you want to testify to the BoE that they shouldn't maximize walkers in the boundary study, because the walkers' parents won't let them walk anyway, so they'll drive them instead, and that will cause delays on the ICC and 270 - go right ahead.

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Anyway, it will make these roads as congested as 355. Believe or not, you’ll see a lot of parents driving their kids rather than walking

Well, then a lot of parents will be sitting in a lot of self-induced traffic. Or they could tell their kids to walk, bike, skateboard, or take public transportation, like other kids do. Their choice.

That will impact all commuters who need to access 200/270 and these big roads in that area. That’s just the reality.

Just like all the other high schools in Montgomery County do, at arrival time, due to parents who choose to drive their children. That's just the reality.

Not every high school is at the major entrances of multiple highways. It’s gonna have significant impact on midcounty traffic.

Yeah, and the high school at Crown also won't be at the major entrances of multiple highways. But if you want to testify to the BoE that they shouldn't maximize walkers in the boundary study, because the walkers' parents won't let them walk anyway, so they'll drive them instead, and that will cause delays on the ICC and 270 - go right ahead.

If you look at 2 mile radius of crown high school, you’ll notice walkers have to take the roads to major entrances to highways. Crown is really in the center of multiple entrances. I’m not saying mcps should not maximize walkers but their definition for high school walkers is not very practical, especially for crown. If I end up having to drive my kids and sit in the self induced traffic, I guess I’ll just move.

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If you look at 2 mile radius of crown high school, you’ll notice walkers have to take the roads to major entrances to highways. Crown is really in the center of multiple entrances. I’m not saying mcps should not maximize walkers but their definition for high school walkers is not very practical, especially for crown. If I end up having to drive my kids and sit in the self induced traffic, I guess I’ll just move.

But they haven't defined the walk zone for Crown yet. That will happen as part of the boundary study.

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Actually crown school is only walkable to crown residents. Nobody wants their kids walking on 28 or shady grove or sem eig highway or great Seneca highway. So if some kids were bused before to become walkers for crown, that just means they lose bus service and parents have to take them to school. So imagine the traffic on these big roads.

Nobody wants their kid walking on 355 either, but that's what happens for a number of kids who go to RM. MoCo doesn't provide buses for high schoolers who live within 2 miles of the school -- they need to walk, bike, carpool, or drive.

355 may be slightly more walkable.

No, Rockville Pike is more dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists than Great Seneca Highway.

The reality is that high schoolers, and even middle schoolers, walk to school all over the county on roads where the PP would say "nobody wants their kids walking there".

Imagine all the kids who walk to school in Manhattan!

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Parents overwhelmingly voted for "closest school" so anyone claiming that parents overwhelmingly voted for diversity in 2018 is lying. That's something that the 2018 board made up and they voted for.

As far as the claims that white and asian children will be bussed to Gaithersburg and Northwest, that person is full of **it as well. If that was true, Churchill and Whitman kids would be packed off to other schools, but even the board isn't that stupid.

If anyone claims the board doesn't care about housing values and traffic issues, I bet they will once it hits evening news or the first mass accident happens. I bet every ambulance chaser in the county will cite the board's decision as the proximate cause of their case. In fact, the more the board opens their mouth, I'm sure the dollar signs are dancing in their heads like sugar plums!

Folks, when you voted in the board of education, this is what you got.

There is a quick solution to that problem - anyone who was sitting on the board in 2018 needs to be voted out of office asap.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents overwhelmingly voted for "closest school" so anyone claiming that parents overwhelmingly voted for diversity in 2018 is lying. That's something that the 2018 board made up and they voted for.

As far as the claims that white and asian children will be bussed to Gaithersburg and Northwest, that person is full of **it as well. If that was true, Churchill and Whitman kids would be packed off to other schools, but even the board isn't that stupid.

If anyone claims the board doesn't care about housing values and traffic issues, I bet they will once it hits evening news or the first mass accident happens. I bet every ambulance chaser in the county will cite the board's decision as the proximate cause of their case. In fact, the more the board opens their mouth, I'm sure the dollar signs are dancing in their heads like sugar plums!

Folks, when you voted in the board of education, this is what you got.

There is a quick solution to that problem - anyone who was sitting on the board in 2018 needs to be voted out of office asap.

I’m worried that board doesn’t dare to touch the rich and powerful Whitman and Churchill parents but find Wootton to be an easier target. Wootton is made of middle class who can’t afford Whitman and Churchill rather than rich and politicians. As always, they only exploit the middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents overwhelmingly voted for "closest school" so anyone claiming that parents overwhelmingly voted for diversity in 2018 is lying. That's something that the 2018 board made up and they voted for.

As far as the claims that white and asian children will be bussed to Gaithersburg and Northwest, that person is full of **it as well. If that was true, Churchill and Whitman kids would be packed off to other schools, but even the board isn't that stupid.

If anyone claims the board doesn't care about housing values and traffic issues, I bet they will once it hits evening news or the first mass accident happens. I bet every ambulance chaser in the county will cite the board's decision as the proximate cause of their case. In fact, the more the board opens their mouth, I'm sure the dollar signs are dancing in their heads like sugar plums!

Folks, when you voted in the board of education, this is what you got.

There is a quick solution to that problem - anyone who was sitting on the board in 2018 needs to be voted out of office asap.

I don't remember that being on the ballot.

As for your catastrophizing about traffic and crashes - I can only assume that you don't know much about traffic or crashes in Montgomery County. Drivers hit kids on the way to and from school all the time. Drivers hit school buses with surprising frequency. There are traffic back-ups in the area of schools (especially high schools) all the time. There is nothing special about the location of the high school at Crown, with respect to traffic and crashes.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents overwhelmingly voted for "closest school" so anyone claiming that parents overwhelmingly voted for diversity in 2018 is lying. That's something that the 2018 board made up and they voted for.

As far as the claims that white and asian children will be bussed to Gaithersburg and Northwest, that person is full of **it as well. If that was true, Churchill and Whitman kids would be packed off to other schools, but even the board isn't that stupid.

If anyone claims the board doesn't care about housing values and traffic issues, I bet they will once it hits evening news or the first mass accident happens. I bet every ambulance chaser in the county will cite the board's decision as the proximate cause of their case. In fact, the more the board opens their mouth, I'm sure the dollar signs are dancing in their heads like sugar plums!

Folks, when you voted in the board of education, this is what you got.

There is a quick solution to that problem - anyone who was sitting on the board in 2018 needs to be voted out of office asap.

I don't remember that being on the ballot.

As for your catastrophizing about traffic and crashes - I can only assume that you don't know much about traffic or crashes in Montgomery County. Drivers hit kids on the way to and from school all the time. Drivers hit school buses with surprising frequency. There are traffic back-ups in the area of schools (especially high schools) all the time. There is nothing special about the location of the high school at Crown, with respect to traffic and crashes.

I really hope you're a board member or senior person at MCPS. Would love for you to put that in writing on official letterhead in a public statement please!

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Anonymous wrote:Parents overwhelmingly voted for "closest school" so anyone claiming that parents overwhelmingly voted for diversity in 2018 is lying. That's something that the 2018 board made up and they voted for.

As far as the claims that white and asian children will be bussed to Gaithersburg and Northwest, that person is full of **it as well. If that was true, Churchill and Whitman kids would be packed off to other schools, but even the board isn't that stupid.

If anyone claims the board doesn't care about housing values and traffic issues, I bet they will once it hits evening news or the first mass accident happens. I bet every ambulance chaser in the county will cite the board's decision as the proximate cause of their case. In fact, the more the board opens their mouth, I'm sure the dollar signs are dancing in their heads like sugar plums!

Folks, when you voted in the board of education, this is what you got.

There is a quick solution to that problem - anyone who was sitting on the board in 2018 needs to be voted out of office asap.

I don't remember that being on the ballot.

As for your catastrophizing about traffic and crashes - I can only assume that you don't know much about traffic or crashes in Montgomery County. Drivers hit kids on the way to and from school all the time. Drivers hit school buses with surprising frequency. There are traffic back-ups in the area of schools (especially high schools) all the time. There is nothing special about the location of the high school at Crown, with respect to traffic and crashes.

I really hope you're a board member or senior person at MCPS. Would love for you to put that in writing on official letterhead in a public statement please!

DP. What the PP said is all true. And wouldn't reducing overcrowding at four high schools also reduce traffic around their sites? That is, after all, the reason they're building Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents overwhelmingly voted for "closest school" so anyone claiming that parents overwhelmingly voted for diversity in 2018 is lying. That's something that the 2018 board made up and they voted for.

As far as the claims that white and asian children will be bussed to Gaithersburg and Northwest, that person is full of **it as well. If that was true, Churchill and Whitman kids would be packed off to other schools, but even the board isn't that stupid.

If anyone claims the board doesn't care about housing values and traffic issues, I bet they will once it hits evening news or the first mass accident happens. I bet every ambulance chaser in the county will cite the board's decision as the proximate cause of their case. In fact, the more the board opens their mouth, I'm sure the dollar signs are dancing in their heads like sugar plums!

Folks, when you voted in the board of education, this is what you got.

There is a quick solution to that problem - anyone who was sitting on the board in 2018 needs to be voted out of office asap.

I don't remember that being on the ballot.

As for your catastrophizing about traffic and crashes - I can only assume that you don't know much about traffic or crashes in Montgomery County. Drivers hit kids on the way to and from school all the time. Drivers hit school buses with surprising frequency. There are traffic back-ups in the area of schools (especially high schools) all the time. There is nothing special about the location of the high school at Crown, with respect to traffic and crashes.

I really hope you're a board member or senior person at MCPS. Would love for you to put that in writing on official letterhead in a public statement please!

DP. What the PP said is all true. And wouldn't reducing overcrowding at four high schools also reduce traffic around their sites? That is, after all, the reason they're building Crown.

Except Richard Montgomery, others are far away from major commuter roads

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Except Richard Montgomery, others are far away from major commuter roads

And except Kennedy and Wheaton, on Randolph Road. Oh, and Blair, on University at Colesville. And Northwest and Seneca Valley, on Great Seneca Highway. And Clarksburg, on 355. And Quince Orchard, on 28. And B-CC, on East-West Highway. And Northwood, on University. And Damascus, on Ridge Road. And Gaithersburg, on 355. And Sherwood, on Olney Sandy Spring Road. And Walter Johnson, which is just as close to "major commuter roads" as the high school at Crown will be.

Other than that, though...

Honestly, PP, I'm seriously confused by your line of argument. Did you just move to Montgomery County last week, with a kindergartner?

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Anonymous wrote:Parents overwhelmingly voted for "closest school" so anyone claiming that parents overwhelmingly voted for diversity in 2018 is lying. That's something that the 2018 board made up and they voted for.

As far as the claims that white and asian children will be bussed to Gaithersburg and Northwest, that person is full of **it as well. If that was true, Churchill and Whitman kids would be packed off to other schools, but even the board isn't that stupid.

If anyone claims the board doesn't care about housing values and traffic issues, I bet they will once it hits evening news or the first mass accident happens. I bet every ambulance chaser in the county will cite the board's decision as the proximate cause of their case. In fact, the more the board opens their mouth, I'm sure the dollar signs are dancing in their heads like sugar plums!

Folks, when you voted in the board of education, this is what you got.

There is a quick solution to that problem - anyone who was sitting on the board in 2018 needs to be voted out of office asap.

I don't remember that being on the ballot.

As for your catastrophizing about traffic and crashes - I can only assume that you don't know much about traffic or crashes in Montgomery County. Drivers hit kids on the way to and from school all the time. Drivers hit school buses with surprising frequency. There are traffic back-ups in the area of schools (especially high schools) all the time. There is nothing special about the location of the high school at Crown, with respect to traffic and crashes.

I really hope you're a board member or senior person at MCPS. Would love for you to put that in writing on official letterhead in a public statement please!

DP. What the PP said is all true. And wouldn't reducing overcrowding at four high schools also reduce traffic around their sites? That is, after all, the reason they're building Crown.

Except Richard Montgomery, others are far away from major commuter roads

? RM is next to the pike. Students in the TB area would whave to cross the pike if they are walkers.

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Except Richard Montgomery, others are far away from major commuter roads

And except Kennedy and Wheaton, on Randolph Road. Oh, and Blair, on University at Colesville. And Northwest and Seneca Valley, on Great Seneca Highway. And Clarksburg, on 355. And Quince Orchard, on 28. And B-CC, on East-West Highway. And Northwood, on University. And Damascus, on Ridge Road. And Gaithersburg, on 355. And Sherwood, on Olney Sandy Spring Road. And Walter Johnson, which is just as close to "major commuter roads" as the high school at Crown will be.

Other than that, though...

Honestly, PP, I'm seriously confused by your line of argument. Did you just move to Montgomery County last week, with a kindergartner?

Don’t you read the previous post I’m relying to? It’s talking about alleviating traffic for the other four schools. It doesn’t make any difference for them

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Except Richard Montgomery, others are far away from major commuter roads

And except Kennedy and Wheaton, on Randolph Road. Oh, and Blair, on University at Colesville. And Northwest and Seneca Valley, on Great Seneca Highway. And Clarksburg, on 355. And Quince Orchard, on 28. And B-CC, on East-West Highway. And Northwood, on University. And Damascus, on Ridge Road. And Gaithersburg, on 355. And Sherwood, on Olney Sandy Spring Road. And Walter Johnson, which is just as close to "major commuter roads" as the high school at Crown will be.

Other than that, though...

Honestly, PP, I'm seriously confused by your line of argument. Did you just move to Montgomery County last week, with a kindergartner?

Don’t you read the previous post I’m relying to? It’s talking about alleviating traffic for the other four schools. It doesn’t make any difference for them

Of course it will make a difference at Gaithersburg, Richard Montgomery, Quince Orchard, and Northwest that their buildings will no longer be overcrowded after Crown opens. And overcrowded buildings means overcrowded parking lots and surrounding roads and sidewalks...