Wootton Announces They Have Formally Retained Silverman & Thompson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. It is not the school board's job to care or even consider property values. Their job is to oversee those educating children. Full stop.

2. The Wootton families are forcing MCPS to spend our tax dollars defending this frivolous lawsuit. I hope sanctions are placed on the plaintiffs, including ordering them to pay the other side's attorney's fees and legal cost

1. LOL The school board’s entire job is to consider property values. It’s how they get the cash they love to waste. Property taxes are their bread and butter.

2. Can we get sanctions against Taylor for wasting tax dollars on his frivolous EV lawsuit? Make him pay for the other side’s attorney fees out of his personal account?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. It is not the school board's job to care or even consider property values. Their job is to oversee those educating children. Full stop.

2. The Wootton families are forcing MCPS to spend our tax dollars defending this frivolous lawsuit. I hope sanctions are placed on the plaintiffs, including ordering them to pay the other side's attorney's fees and legal cost

1. LOL The school board’s entire job is to consider property values. It’s how they get the cash they love to waste. Property taxes are their bread and butter.

2. Can we get sanctions against Taylor for wasting tax dollars on his frivolous EV lawsuit? Make him pay for the other side’s attorney fees out of his personal account?

1. The goal is to provide a quality education to each child in the county. This has the effect of increasing property values ACROSS THE COUNTY that creates revenue. And it certainly isn't their job to care about any particular small neighborhood's property values. Maybe, the aggregate for the whole county, but not one neighborhood. And there is no reason to believe that this change will affect aggregate property values negatively.

2. And here we go again with "two wrongs make a right" logic...

[Anonymous]

Can Wootton parents please stop wasting our tax dollars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can Wootton parents please stop wasting our tax dollars?

Can Taylor please stop wasting our tax dollars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can Wootton parents please stop wasting our tax dollars?

Can Taylor please stop wasting our tax dollars?

Can you understand that two wrongs don't make a right?

Yes, I would like Tylor not to waste taxpayer dollars. I would ALSO like certain Wootton parents to stop wasting our taxpayer dollars.

See how that works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is solely about property values and keeping higher performing kids away from other kids. As someone who lives on the other side I feel like other parents are going to organize to fight against you. We cannot stand by and watch a bunch of entitled people demand that their kids get what they want. This is a whole county and your kids should not be the only ones who get what they think they deserve. We will fight against this. This is a PUBLIC school. You are not entitled to anything just because you want it! Just because you have money and just because you sprak the loudest. MCPS will not let you win nor will the REST of the county - yes it is a county with other people involved not just you!

Meanwhile the Whitman and Churchill HS communities quietly get everything they want/need without having to speak up. Funny how that works. Huh. Notice how untouched these two schools were by regional programming. Wootton is a W school, but it is a lower-case w school, so yeah, they have to organize. If people in the Wootton community want to organize and protest, what is it to you? Just move on to another thread in DCUM. No need for you to worry.

Neither Churchill or Whitman is close to the Crown building. Wootton was always going to be one of the most affected schools simply because of its proximity to the location.

Whitman is not overcrowded and is not part of the downcounty growth area so of course it’s not going to get shaken up in this city.

Churchill got everything they want…for now. But the 112% utilization with the boundary study coming up absolutely points to shakeups to happen there soon. I’m quite confident they have Stone Mill and Wayside articulating to Hoover together and Potomac and Travilah articulating to Cabin John together because they are strongly considering redistricting art of Wayside to Stone Mill and Potomac to Travilah in the next study. Having Julie Yang probably helped things not get so chaotic at the moment but it’s not like they are protected forever.

Curious where you think those students from Wayside and Potomac will be sent for middle school and high school? Frost and Crown?

By the way, why do you care so much? Is this a "hey, we have to pay so you should to?" I hardly think Potomac ES students will end up at Crown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is solely about property values and keeping higher performing kids away from other kids. As someone who lives on the other side I feel like other parents are going to organize to fight against you. We cannot stand by and watch a bunch of entitled people demand that their kids get what they want. This is a whole county and your kids should not be the only ones who get what they think they deserve. We will fight against this. This is a PUBLIC school. You are not entitled to anything just because you want it! Just because you have money and just because you sprak the loudest. MCPS will not let you win nor will the REST of the county - yes it is a county with other people involved not just you!

Meanwhile the Whitman and Churchill HS communities quietly get everything they want/need without having to speak up. Funny how that works. Huh. Notice how untouched these two schools were by regional programming. Wootton is a W school, but it is a lower-case w school, so yeah, they have to organize. If people in the Wootton community want to organize and protest, what is it to you? Just move on to another thread in DCUM. No need for you to worry.

Neither Churchill or Whitman is close to the Crown building. Wootton was always going to be one of the most affected schools simply because of its proximity to the location.

Whitman is not overcrowded and is not part of the downcounty growth area so of course it’s not going to get shaken up in this city.

Churchill got everything they want…for now. But the 112% utilization with the boundary study coming up absolutely points to shakeups to happen there soon. I’m quite confident they have Stone Mill and Wayside articulating to Hoover together and Potomac and Travilah articulating to Cabin John together because they are strongly considering redistricting art of Wayside to Stone Mill and Potomac to Travilah in the next study. Having Julie Yang probably helped things not get so chaotic at the moment but it’s not like they are protected forever.

Curious where you think those students from Wayside and Potomac will be sent for middle school and high school? Frost and Crown?

By the way, why do you care so much? Is this a "hey, we have to pay so you should to?" I hardly think Potomac ES students will end up at Crown.

DP but articulation would be Stone Mill Hoover Crown and Travilah Cabin John Crown and there are definitely neighborhoods currently in Wayside and Poromac boundaries where this could happen. This will happen in other elementary clusters, too. Ex. Fallsgrove neighborhood in Ritchie Park/RM cluster will likely get moved to an elementary school that articulates to Crown.

[Anonymous]

There will be room especially with Dufief closing and going to QO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There will be room especially with Dufief closing and going to QO

Dufief isn't closing. MCPS needs to make room for the Rosemont kids who are now going to Frost/W@C in a cluster ES, so they are likely to move Washingtonian Woods to Dufief so that those Rosemont students can go to Fields Road or Stone Mill depending on numbers. This makes sense bc WW is the only development on that side of 28 (from Dufief Drive to Muddy Branch) NOT to to go Dufief.

[Anonymous]

QO>Crown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:QO>Crown.

My man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. It is not the school board's job to care or even consider property values. Their job is to oversee those educating children. Full stop.

2. The Wootton families are forcing MCPS to spend our tax dollars defending this frivolous lawsuit. I hope sanctions are placed on the plaintiffs, including ordering them to pay the other side's attorney's fees and legal cost

1. LOL The school board’s entire job is to consider property values. It’s how they get the cash they love to waste. Property taxes are their bread and butter.

2. Can we get sanctions against Taylor for wasting tax dollars on his frivolous EV lawsuit? Make him pay for the other side’s attorney fees out of his personal account?

1. The goal is to provide a quality education to each child in the county. This has the effect of increasing property values ACROSS THE COUNTY that creates revenue. And it certainly isn't their job to care about any particular small neighborhood's property values. Maybe, the aggregate for the whole county, but not one neighborhood. And there is no reason to believe that this change will affect aggregate property values negatively.

2. And here we go again with "two wrongs make a right" logic...

Taylor’s list of wrongs is much longer than one. He’s got a whole stable of outside lawyers to fight all the parents he is attacking across the County.

You are focused on Wootton parents because of your racism, but Taylor hates parents all across the county and is looking to be sued dozens of times. While you hate one neighborhood, he hates the entire county. Whatever happened to him at BCC really damaged him for life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:QO>Crown.

Quince Orchard is coming out pretty good with these proposals with having Brown Station and Fields Road assigned to other schools.

Their FARMS rate goes from 31.2% to 22.9% based on the effects table of the superintendent's recommended proposal.

Whereas nearby Northwest goes from 29.7% to 37.1%, part of it is probably from adding Brown Station.

I guess it's better then the initial options, where in that first round options 2 and 4 has QO's FARMS rate go to around 13 or 14 percent, while the other surrounding schools had an increased FARMS rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:QO>Crown.

Quince Orchard is coming out pretty good with these proposals with having Brown Station and Fields Road assigned to other schools.

Their FARMS rate goes from 31.2% to 22.9% based on the effects table of the superintendent's recommended proposal.

Whereas nearby Northwest goes from 29.7% to 37.1%, part of it is probably from adding Brown Station.

I guess it's better then the initial options, where in that first round options 2 and 4 has QO's FARMS rate go to around 13 or 14 percent, while the other surrounding schools had an increased FARMS rate.

The areas getting reassigned to Crown look like they are benefiting as well.

I don't really follow the market much anymore but there are four homes in Washingtonian Woods that went under contract within a week of listing.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/207-Upshire-Cir-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/37248067_zpid/
https://www.redfin.com/MD/Gaithersburg/9-Midsummer-Ct-20878/home/10852514
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5-Driscoll-Ct-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/37249170_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/913-Hillside-Lake-Ter-APT-413-Gaithersburg-MD-20878/37250989_zpid/

Like I said, I don't know if this is normal but assumed that the market slowed down in the area due to DOGE cuts, inflation, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is solely about property values and keeping higher performing kids away from other kids. As someone who lives on the other side I feel like other parents are going to organize to fight against you. We cannot stand by and watch a bunch of entitled people demand that their kids get what they want. This is a whole county and your kids should not be the only ones who get what they think they deserve. We will fight against this. This is a PUBLIC school. You are not entitled to anything just because you want it! Just because you have money and just because you sprak the loudest. MCPS will not let you win nor will the REST of the county - yes it is a county with other people involved not just you!

Meanwhile the Whitman and Churchill HS communities quietly get everything they want/need without having to speak up. Funny how that works. Huh. Notice how untouched these two schools were by regional programming. Wootton is a W school, but it is a lower-case w school, so yeah, they have to organize. If people in the Wootton community want to organize and protest, what is it to you? Just move on to another thread in DCUM. No need for you to worry.

Neither Churchill or Whitman is close to the Crown building. Wootton was always going to be one of the most affected schools simply because of its proximity to the location.

Whitman is not overcrowded and is not part of the downcounty growth area so of course it’s not going to get shaken up in this city.

Churchill got everything they want…for now. But the 112% utilization with the boundary study coming up absolutely points to shakeups to happen there soon. I’m quite confident they have Stone Mill and Wayside articulating to Hoover together and Potomac and Travilah articulating to Cabin John together because they are strongly considering redistricting art of Wayside to Stone Mill and Potomac to Travilah in the next study. Having Julie Yang probably helped things not get so chaotic at the moment but it’s not like they are protected forever.

Curious where you think those students from Wayside and Potomac will be sent for middle school and high school? Frost and Crown?

By the way, why do you care so much? Is this a "hey, we have to pay so you should to?" I hardly think Potomac ES students will end up at Crown.

Firstly, I don't think anyone is deeply 'paying' in this study beyond Northwest HS and Brown Station. Anyhow, you aren't paying attention if you seriously think Potomac and Wayside kids would end up at Frost. The entire reason the boundaries were made contiguous is to allow for possibilities like moving portions of Potomac to Travilah and portions of Wayside to Stone Mill without disrupting middle school assignment. Wayside in particular if Cold Spring closes would probably take on a good portion of the Cold Spring area and need to bleed some of its northern peninsula to Stone Mill, which would not change middle school articulation bc both Wayside and SMES will be at Hoover already.

So yes, students from the northern and western sections of Potomac and Wayside respectively could end up going to Wootton @ Crown after the next elementary boundary study.

This isn't about me 'caring' or wishing ill on people, it's about analyzing what MCPS has already been proposing carefully. When Churchill has a 112% utilization and MCPS was already planning to move these Western/Northern portions of Potomac and Wayside to Wootton in options A-D, it's logical to have on the radar.