Taylor Meeting at Wootton

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Anonymous wrote:What are "parkway people"?

The Wootton people who can walk to the building, who value the ability to walk to school above all else. Including their children’s health.

They are the members of the wootton community who are adamantly against the superintendents recommendation. Many others in the community are for the move to crown.

Maybe we don’t want our children to spend 40 minutes each way on the bus daily because it will negatively impact their health. We are going to be the farthest community from Crown. Our kids will be getting on those buses before 7 am. We bought our tiny townhouse to be able to walk to all 3 schools.

Then, drive them. Most of our kids spend 30-40 minutes or longer on the bus to their local high school. My kids have a 15 minute ride to school and a 35 minute ride home on the bus for a 10 minute or less drive for me.

Why do I need to drive them when I have a school I can see from my house? I need to do that because MCPS decided to build a school that’s apparently not needed and now they want to screw me?

It's definitely personal. You're right.

It surely feels that way when the only school they are doing this to is a majority Asian school.

Oh FFS. It’s not bc Wootton is majority Asian. It’s bc the school needs repairs desperately, there’s a brand building available AND Wootton happens to be super close to the brand new building.

You would still have the same Asian community at new Wootton.

Make Crown a holding school. Lots of high schools in worse condition than Wootton who actually want to go to Crown.

You cannot put students into a holding school until there is a renovation underway. There is no money for a renovation. Therefore crown would just sit empty. Wootton would continue to deteriorate with even less money county wide. Wootton being a holding school under H isn’t actually happening for a good 5-8 years.

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When I try to explain this to friends in other states their jaws drop at the lunacy. My kids' high school has been falling apart for over a decade and delayed and denied renovations bc of the lack of $$, and now they will be relocated to a new school just a few miles away in just one year instead of waiting several years for renovations - and people are complaining about this victory? What?! And what has been made very clear in their public comments and in person today is that it's not even mostly about perceived property values. It's about garbage racism and ignorance. They think Crown is some distant scary "urban" place and that a few hundred Crown kids will somehow ruin their kids academically. It's like listening to the rantings of a MAGA reddit board.

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Anonymous wrote:When I try to explain this to friends in other states their jaws drop at the lunacy. My kids' high school has been falling apart for over a decade and delayed and denied renovations bc of the lack of $$, and now they will be relocated to a new school just a few miles away in just one year instead of waiting several years for renovations - and people are complaining about this victory? What?! And what has been made very clear in their public comments and in person today is that it's not even mostly about perceived property values. It's about garbage racism and ignorance. They think Crown is some distant scary "urban" place and that a few hundred Crown kids will somehow ruin their kids academically. It's like listening to the rantings of a MAGA reddit board.

Indeed. Wootton families are aligning with some Moms4Liberty nutjobs to keep their case relevant.

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Anonymous wrote:"Why do I need to drive them when I have a school I can see from my house? I need to do that because MCPS decided to build a school that’s apparently not needed and now they want to screw me?"

Why do the Parkways always fixate on this absurd argument? How many times do we need to explain that Gaithersburg annexed the land to MCPS in 2006! Do you really actually think that MCPS in 2006 when enrollment projections were showing a massive surge and it was going to receive 29 acres FOR FREE, that they should have said "nah, no thanks, we won't take this unique massive parcel of land for free to build a new high school because some day TWENTY YEARS from now enrollment will dip and we'll have a massive budget gap and we will need to relocate Wootton to Crown and the Parkway Princesses will throw a fit thinking we're "screwing them" by giving them a new school?! Touch grass.

So move students there who are geographically close not the ones who will need to spend 40 minutes on a bus each way. It’s nonsensical to move Cold Springs to Churchill and make Churchill at 112% capacity and move the rest of Wootton to Crown. Does not help with overcrowding at RM or Churchill, in fact it makes it worse. The purpose of the boundary study was to prioritize geography not make it worse .Why should I pay for their idiotic mistake and lack of foresight?

Seems like you missed it but Cold Spring wanted to go to Churchill. They don’t need your help

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the people in the Wootton single families don't like you if you live in the townhouses. 😂

Wootton single family homes were all built in the early 70s and are not the mansions that you imagine. The majority of the houses in Rockshire and Fallsbend are split level 1,800 sq ft houses that are about the size of my townhouse.

Are you mad that Washingtonian woods has better houses than you?

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Anonymous wrote:When I try to explain this to friends in other states their jaws drop at the lunacy. My kids' high school has been falling apart for over a decade and delayed and denied renovations bc of the lack of $$, and now they will be relocated to a new school just a few miles away in just one year instead of waiting several years for renovations - and people are complaining about this victory? What?! And what has been made very clear in their public comments and in person today is that it's not even mostly about perceived property values. It's about garbage racism and ignorance. They think Crown is some distant scary "urban" place and that a few hundred Crown kids will somehow ruin their kids academically. It's like listening to the rantings of a MAGA reddit board.

Indeed. Wootton families are aligning with some Moms4Liberty nutjobs to keep their case relevant.

That will backfire real quick.

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Anonymous wrote:When I try to explain this to friends in other states their jaws drop at the lunacy. My kids' high school has been falling apart for over a decade and delayed and denied renovations bc of the lack of $$, and now they will be relocated to a new school just a few miles away in just one year instead of waiting several years for renovations - and people are complaining about this victory? What?! And what has been made very clear in their public comments and in person today is that it's not even mostly about perceived property values. It's about garbage racism and ignorance. They think Crown is some distant scary "urban" place and that a few hundred Crown kids will somehow ruin their kids academically. It's like listening to the rantings of a MAGA reddit board.

You are lucky. Many kids are stuck in their falling apart facilities with no plans for renovations. We'd take a new building in a heartbeat.

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"So move students there who are geographically close not the ones who will need to spend 40 minutes on a bus each way. It’s nonsensical to move Cold Springs to Churchill and make Churchill at 112% capacity and move the rest of Wootton to Crown. Does not help with overcrowding at RM or Churchill, in fact it makes it worse. The purpose of the boundary study was to prioritize geography not make it worse .Why should I pay for their idiotic mistake and lack of foresight?"

It's about 3.6-4 miles from Wootton to Crown. 10-15 minute drive. With bus, 25-30 minutes max, just like many other Wootton kids currently take to get to Wootton. I can't believe we're debating whether taking a bus is some hardship. It's the way kids get to school. Only a tiny group ever have the privilege to walk. It used to be you. Now it's someone else's turn. Life moves on. Your kids won't have health issues from riding a school bus for 25 minutes. I promise.

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"While y’all are busy fighting back and forth, can someone share some of the actual Q&A from the event?"

There were a bunch of questions from the moderator at first, covering not just boundary stuff but also the shooting and safety. Unfortunately the rowdy crowd kept on shouting and interrupting. There was a lot of time for questions from the crowd too, and that devolved quickly.

New things I learned: Taylor seemed to indicate that the walkable zone would be looked at and adjusted if BOE approves the Recommendation. He also seemed to support the MS alignment proposal Yang made. Wootton would be maintained even during the times it's not a holding school.

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Anonymous wrote:"Why do I need to drive them when I have a school I can see from my house? I need to do that because MCPS decided to build a school that’s apparently not needed and now they want to screw me?"

Why do the Parkways always fixate on this absurd argument? How many times do we need to explain that Gaithersburg annexed the land to MCPS in 2006! Do you really actually think that MCPS in 2006 when enrollment projections were showing a massive surge and it was going to receive 29 acres FOR FREE, that they should have said "nah, no thanks, we won't take this unique massive parcel of land for free to build a new high school because some day TWENTY YEARS from now enrollment will dip and we'll have a massive budget gap and we will need to relocate Wootton to Crown and the Parkway Princesses will throw a fit thinking we're "screwing them" by giving them a new school?! Touch grass.

So move students there who are geographically close not the ones who will need to spend 40 minutes on a bus each way. It’s nonsensical to move Cold Springs to Churchill and make Churchill at 112% capacity and move the rest of Wootton to Crown. Does not help with overcrowding at RM or Churchill, in fact it makes it worse. The purpose of the boundary study was to prioritize geography not make it worse .Why should I pay for their idiotic mistake and lack of foresight?

The buses are included

[Anonymous]

In the past decade+, did anyone in Kensington complain about the 40 minute bus ride to WJ?

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I hope there is a release of a video version of the meeting so the rest of us can see it. Does anyone know if MCPS recorded it? I heard it was a bunch of parents yelling on top of each other.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope there is a release of a video version of the meeting so the rest of us can see it. Does anyone know if MCPS recorded it? I heard it was a bunch of parents yelling on top of each other.

Someone send it to the Wootton hs kids so they can shame their parents for terrible behavior in public

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are "parkway people"?

The Wootton people who can walk to the building, who value the ability to walk to school above all else. Including their children’s health.

They are the members of the wootton community who are adamantly against the superintendents recommendation. Many others in the community are for the move to crown.

Maybe we don’t want our children to spend 40 minutes each way on the bus daily because it will negatively impact their health. We are going to be the farthest community from Crown. Our kids will be getting on those buses before 7 am. We bought our tiny townhouse to be able to walk to all 3 schools.

There is nowhere in Fallsmead or Lakewood boundaries that is a 40 minute school bus ride one way to Crown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are "parkway people"?

The Wootton people who can walk to the building, who value the ability to walk to school above all else. Including their children’s health.

They are the members of the wootton community who are adamantly against the superintendents recommendation. Many others in the community are for the move to crown.

Maybe we don’t want our children to spend 40 minutes each way on the bus daily because it will negatively impact their health. We are going to be the farthest community from Crown. Our kids will be getting on those buses before 7 am. We bought our tiny townhouse to be able to walk to all 3 schools.

Then, drive them. Most of our kids spend 30-40 minutes or longer on the bus to their local high school. My kids have a 15 minute ride to school and a 35 minute ride home on the bus for a 10 minute or less drive for me.

Why do I need to drive them when I have a school I can see from my house? I need to do that because MCPS decided to build a school that’s apparently not needed and now they want to screw me?

I cam see Lakewood from my house but my kids are zoned to RM cluster. Horizon Hill can see Wootton from their backyards and don't go to Wootton. What is your point??