Long distance bussing is off the table, but moving some parts of Wootton to QO won't be making distance longer. In fact, it will be shorter. MCPS should simply look at all factors and make a call. |
| New question. Fields Road is advocating to go to Crown at Wootton in option H. Where are they wanting to go to middle? I believe they are currently at Ridgeview. Are they splitting regions then because that supposedly wasn't "allowed" before. Not sure Frost has room. |
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Nearby areas should go to a school.
There are no reasons for field Rd to not go to Crown when they are so close and then kids getting bussed from far away to Crown. It won't make any sense, |
Then call it what it is. It is no longer "moving Wootton to Crown" when you lose a third of the school and add a bunch of other schools. It's just a big rezoning project. Will be much harder to convince current Wootton population to get on board with the move (option H) when you make changes like this. |
| Boundary study and regional program study are so expensive. The next studies probably won't happen till decades after. I just want MCPS do it all right this time in March to make school boundaries and next regional programs to make sense for the next 1-20 years. It is quite sad that mcps is going downhill in terms of education achievment and families are leaving mcps. I wish overall mcps student population get more fair opportunities and exposures. Let's look at the bigger picture. Some families will be unhappy but remember last school boundaries & programs change were done decades ago. Many things have changed since then, so some changes would be unavoidable. |
Yeap we definitely should thank those parents because Wootton is one of the oldest buildings and constantly pushed back and off of the CIP. If anyone should be mad at anyone, the anger should be directed towards the decision makers who allowed the maintenance to get pushed back to this extent. Then remember this when it comes time for elections which parties and groups to affiliate with. |
Ha ha. I guess we will wait. Honestly I do not care where Dufief goes but logically Option H is the best thing MCPS can do to satisfy 2 communities. If I were the one in charge I would stop the 6 regional magnets and make them 2. And forget Dufief, I would rezone everyone based on proximity and not on wealth. |
Exactly. Every morning I see buses going from past Muddy Branch to QO. And Dufief and Travilah conveniently get to go to Wootton which is a farther commute. |
Dufief does not make a third of Wootton. You have to be a Dufief parent to skew the facts to your liking. |
I agree with this. MCPS really needs to reign this all in, and postpone this by a year or two giving them enough time to consider the logistics. Too many things happening at once - Boundary changes, regional magnets. It will be chaos. |
Dufief and Travillah are two out of six feeder schools, PP was talking about moving both. That equals one third of the feeder schools. What a ridiculous comment you felt you needed to make. |
You can't have it all. There will be unhappy parents no matter what they do. By moving Wootton to Crown and adding Fields Road, they just have a new set of walkers - the Fields Road ES cluster. And if they move Dufief or Travilah to QO, it should not matter since they will be be bussed a shorter distance now and that is a good thing right? |
Not what those schools want, they don't mind the extra mile on the bus, but their feedback doesn't matter, right? Just everyone else's. |
Let's be honest. They aren't moving Travillah to QO with the multi million dollar builds out by the horse farm that were sold as Wootton homes. It's just Dufief at risk. |
Frost will have room if they move out Dufief or Travilah. They are already bused to Ridgeview. They will be bused to Robert Frost while Dufief or Travilah will be bused to Ridgeview instead (if that happens). The only way I see Option H work (with regards to the Fields Road community wanting to go to Crown) is to move out Dufief or Travilah. If CO folks are reading this forum, I hope you consider this to address the Fields Road issue. |