3/26 Board of Ed meeting live thread

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Anonymous wrote:If you hop on 54, how long does it take right now to go from Wootton to Crown?

You can’t hop on on Tide on 54, it doesn’t stop near Wootton .

Sure it does. The stop is well inside the walk zone. Depending on where you live, it may be closer to your house than old Wootton.

No it doesn’t stop next to Wootton. The closest stop is Darnestown and Research which is a mile away from Wootton and more than 2 miles away for kids who live next to Villages of Rockville for example. The only Wootton kids close enough to walk to the stop are those who live along Hurley.

There will be an MCPS bus to Crown for kids who live next to Villages. I'm not clear on the problem/issue.

Really? Show me where MoCo said this magical bus is going to be available.

Has MCPS put out the bus stop list for Crown already? The Villages is over 2 miles to Crown (google maps puts it at 3.4 walking) - high school students more than 2 miles to a high school get bus transportation. There will be MCPS bus transportation from that area. You are fear mongering for no reason.

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I think they are talking about public bus routes for kids that play sports/do other activities before and after school.

High schools also have MCPS activity buses for after-school activities.

Do you have kids in hs? There are only a few activity buses that run three days a week an hour after school ends or so. So, for sports and marching band you have to drive, carpool, walk, bike.

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Crown will be fine and have the advanced classes. The DCC students will lose access and we will have to go private as Whitman isn’t an option due to it being Whitman and the distance. Sadly, private is cheaper than moving.

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I only have ES kids, and I only sign them up at activities that I am able to do drop off or pick up. I never ask for carpool because it is not easy to navigate.

Do parents normally not drop off or pick up kids or find carpool if they decide to do after school or weekend activities when their kids are at HS ages? I see many parents drop off, pick up or carpool when it comes to swim meets in the summer.

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What does NEC & DCC mean? I am not familiar with downtown county.

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Anonymous wrote:What does NEC & DCC mean? I am not familiar with downtown county.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/school-info/nec/
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/school-info/downcounty/

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Anonymous wrote:If you hop on 54, how long does it take right now to go from Wootton to Crown?

You can’t hop on on Tide on 54, it doesn’t stop near Wootton .

Sure it does. The stop is well inside the walk zone. Depending on where you live, it may be closer to your house than old Wootton.

No it doesn’t stop next to Wootton. The closest stop is Darnestown and Research which is a mile away from Wootton and more than 2 miles away for kids who live next to Villages of Rockville for example. The only Wootton kids close enough to walk to the stop are those who live along Hurley.

They could take the 56 bus from in front of Wootton and get off at the Shady Grove Hospital/Medical Center stop and walk the rest of the way to Crown (that is within the Crown walk zone) and going home they can walk to Shady Grove Hospital/Medical Center and then take the 56 back to Wootton or even all the way up Wootton Parkway to Falls Road (and beyond) if they are a Fallsmead family.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that none of the Save Wootton people stuck around for the after-action report about the shooting that happened in their building.

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Because they don’t have kids or their kids are soon to graduate.

Really clear signal of what their care about Their property values!

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Anonymous wrote:I only have ES kids, and I only sign them up at activities that I am able to do drop off or pick up. I never ask for carpool because it is not easy to navigate.

Do parents normally not drop off or pick up kids or find carpool if they decide to do after school or weekend activities when their kids are at HS ages? I see many parents drop off, pick up or carpool when it comes to swim meets in the summer.

They do to a point but like you say, sometimes its harder to carpool than to do it yourself. Its a lot of driving back and forth with HS for sports and other activities.

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Anonymous wrote:What does NEC & DCC mean? I am not familiar with downtown county.

DCC is a grouping of schools where students can request/lottery into a different school if it meets their needs better. Some schools have specialities and some just have more/different classes. Or, they just want a new start.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that none of the Save Wootton people stuck around for the after-action report about the shooting that happened in their building.

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Because they don’t have kids or their kids are soon to graduate.

Really clear signal of what their care about Their property values!

I would have expected way more families to have shown up if they were against Crown. I don't get why you'd want to leave your kids in a school building that bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that none of the Save Wootton people stuck around for the after-action report about the shooting that happened in their building.

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Because they don’t have kids or their kids are soon to graduate.

Really clear signal of what their care about Their property values!

Sounds to me like a signal that they don't want to watch the BOE and Superintendent celebrate what a great job they did the day a child got shot in their kids' school.

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Anonymous wrote:If you hop on 54, how long does it take right now to go from Wootton to Crown?

You can’t hop on on Tide on 54, it doesn’t stop near Wootton .

Sure it does. The stop is well inside the walk zone. Depending on where you live, it may be closer to your house than old Wootton.

No it doesn’t stop next to Wootton. The closest stop is Darnestown and Research which is a mile away from Wootton and more than 2 miles away for kids who live next to Villages of Rockville for example. The only Wootton kids close enough to walk to the stop are those who live along Hurley.

They could take the 56 bus from in front of Wootton and get off at the Shady Grove Hospital/Medical Center stop and walk the rest of the way to Crown (that is within the Crown walk zone) and going home they can walk to Shady Grove Hospital/Medical Center and then take the 56 back to Wootton or even all the way up Wootton Parkway to Falls Road (and beyond) if they are a Fallsmead family.

MCdot changes bus routes all the time if there's enough need or something as big as a HS moves.

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Wolff's comments were so antagonistic and misrepresented people who have concerns, painting them with a broad brush.

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She says she is "disheartened by some of the rhetoric" is unhelpful when it is couched as "everyone who disagrees with me hates equity"

[Anonymous]

Also sounds like she has delusions of grandeur