Look at your school directory, that’s the list right there. This loss is worse than Blair. It’s neighborhood identity. Walking with siblings and extended family. Poof gone. Future vision no more. Property value tank. Maybe property taxes up? Extra double kick you know where. No more pride. Changed forever. And true motives revealed on tape! Laughingstock of loss. All fortunes are fleeting though, this is good lesson of that. |
You cannot be serious. On the flip side, kids academically preform but there are some serious mental health and violence issues at the school.. shottings, sex abuse, and much more. |
Blair magnet isn't being touched. |
With loss of pride will come loss of effort. School cant win award because of new mix. Down spiral. Neighborhood gem for generations now open to whole city and grasp is lost. Tragic. |
There is far more to a good school than awards. Safety is one that is important to most of us. Are you just going to ignore everything else going on? |
Of course that is important but two different things. How did you let it slip away. Decades to build, moments to lose. |
| Is MCPS pushing for a zoning change at Wootton? My friend who works in a civil engineering firm said there was contract solicitation posted for a feasibility study to use a piece of land next to the school for a commercial transport application. |
That is a nice whiff of gaslighting. The size of the Blair magnet will go down - the school district, shocker, is not being transparent about final number of students, because they have combined the proposed number of criteria-based seats available at Blair and Blair has two criteria programs proposed. Add to that the loss off students from around most of the county for the Blair magnet and you get something that is far less rigorous because Blair won't have as many highly able students applying and it will likely have fewer courses offered. Mediocrity, thy name is Thomas Taylor. |
Yes |
Guess you’ve been in a cave these past 2 months. Oh, and learn to spell Gaithersburg. You must not be from the area. |
It's not going to go down. There will be enough kids to fill it locally. Stop with the drama. The problem is that not all smart kids want to go into the program for a variety of reasons. |
Wait - I heard something about this too. Time to look into it more |
Weird. Why do you think the county would want to change that neighborhood into a small airport? Apparently the commercial transport was air transport related. What else could it be? |
Is that you? The guy who was obsessed with what zip codes we are from? Have you now come to DCUM, sir? 20878 here. I feel OK saying it in this anonymous forum. |
| Settle a debate for us: parents are filing the suit themselves or they hired lawyers? |