Wootton Announces They Have Formally Retained Silverman & Thompson

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Anonymous wrote:How can we expect MCPS to make progress when every move is met with a lawsuit? You say you don't want more "status quo" but then when they try to change things, you sue. What's the story? Is it just that you want YOUR status quo while OTHER PEOPLE make/absorb changes? Help me understand.

Maybe if mcps actually follows the law and has competent lawyers working for them they wouldn’t be sued left and right.

These are two different groups suing btw. (There are many more)

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Anonymous wrote:How can we expect MCPS to make progress when every move is met with a lawsuit? You say you don't want more "status quo" but then when they try to change things, you sue. What's the story? Is it just that you want YOUR status quo while OTHER PEOPLE make/absorb changes? Help me understand.

Maybe if mcps actually follows the law and has competent lawyers working for them they wouldn’t be sued left and right.

These are two different groups suing btw. (There are many more)

Can we at least try to be honest and have a real dialogue on an anonymous forum? You well know this is not a fair take or answer to this question.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't followed these threads but just wanted to say that I am a prospective home buyer and the crown move has made the wootton area more attractive to me. I get the walk ability preference for some neighborhoods but I think a new building is worth the trade off. Just my opinion as a prospective buyer.

Good luck! Just remember that a bunch of changes are going to happen after this; elementary school / middle school boundary studies are coming up and closures are on the table. DuFief in particular may be at risk.

My advice is also not to get too attached to high schools if your kids are young; everything can change while they grow up and if it ends up being an issue, you can always move or figure out an alternative. My kid got into Poolesville, so our high school boundary ended up not mattering at all.

Except Poolesville and all the other programs won’t be available in the future. Another great decision by MCPS.

Also there’s a lawsuit coming too to fight the regional program.

MCPS sure loves lawsuits

Do you know if the lawsuit against the regional plan is trying to keep the magnet programs at Poolesville and Blair only, or just to delay changing the program until there's more extensive work on how the regional model would be implemented?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all said the Muslims will lose the option out lawsuit. They won.

Not theirs. Their backers. Those people were used and naive.

[Anonymous]

I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

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(previous poster) like what does it mean to move a school? It sounds like wootton is being moved?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

People are upset because they bought old houses for $$$ near the current Wootton building "for the schools" and now their kids will have to go to school in Gaithersburg which they consider inferior to Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

They're worried about a small number of poor, hispanic and black kids being allowed into the school since this comes with a slight boundary change.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

A huge high school building and an artificial turf football field are going to be boarded up and abandoned in a residential neighborhood. A neighbor school will be shuttered and all of the students that could walk to that school will not need to be buses elsewhere. MCPS doesn’t have money for more buses and can’t afford to transport these students.

The bigger issue is that this is just the beginning of Taylor’s plan to shut down school buildings across the county. He wants to board up dozens of schools for developers to tear down the schools and build condos.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

A huge high school building and an artificial turf football field are going to be boarded up and abandoned in a residential neighborhood. A neighbor school will be shuttered and all of the students that could walk to that school will not need to be buses elsewhere. MCPS doesn’t have money for more buses and can’t afford to transport these students.

The bigger issue is that this is just the beginning of Taylor’s plan to shut down school buildings across the county. He wants to board up dozens of schools for developers to tear down the schools and build condos.

The same school building parents advocated that has serious mold, plumbing, electrical, gas and other major issues.

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The last two PP are troll.

The issue is that parents are upset about a number of things.

1. Regardless of outcome, this process has been a joke. If nothing else, ppl should be happy about the lawsuit because at a minimum mcps will likely do a less shitty job at the es study coming up because they will be more inclined to follow the law.
2. This is bad precedent, you cannot neglect a building to death and then close it. MCPS is using its own neglect to justify the de facto closure of Wootton.

I’m sorry but this has nothing to do with the demographics of crown hs. Trolls be trolling. Let’s be 100% for real here. The houses around Crown are more expensive and newer than those around the Parkway. Let’s not pretend that this is some improvised area just so people can use words like racism and classism to suit their agenda. The beef isn’t with Crown families or black or brown kids. Some of yall are far too up in Montoya’s butthole. I’m sure the new crown will be a fine school. But that doesn’t mean what happened here was lawful, because it wasn’t.

This is about process, precedent, and following the law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

A huge high school building and an artificial turf football field are going to be boarded up and abandoned in a residential neighborhood. A neighbor school will be shuttered and all of the students that could walk to that school will not need to be buses elsewhere. MCPS doesn’t have money for more buses and can’t afford to transport these students.

The bigger issue is that this is just the beginning of Taylor’s plan to shut down school buildings across the county. He wants to board up dozens of schools for developers to tear down the schools and build condos.

The same school building parents advocated that has serious mold, plumbing, electrical, gas and other major issues.

And? They advocated for Wootton to being fixed. Had MCPS kept their word, Wootton would have been rebuilt 17 years ago. No one asked or advocated to close Wootton and be moved.

Let’s say you had an issue with your beloved home. You ask for some fixes, say a leaky roof. If you advocate for that but instead get forcibly moved, did you also advocate for moving?

You are fool being played by mcps and their narrative. MCPS is literally gaslighting Wootton parents and telling them you asked for this when in reality all of this is a result of deliberate neglect by MCPS for nearly two decades.

But go ahead and keep believing their BS. The board is complacent AF because there’s people like you who don’t have two brain cells to rub together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The last two PP are troll.

The issue is that parents are upset about a number of things.

1. Regardless of outcome, this process has been a joke. If nothing else, ppl should be happy about the lawsuit because at a minimum mcps will likely do a less shitty job at the es study coming up because they will be more inclined to follow the law.
2. This is bad precedent, you cannot neglect a building to death and then close it. MCPS is using its own neglect to justify the de facto closure of Wootton.

I’m sorry but this has nothing to do with the demographics of crown hs. Trolls be trolling. Let’s be 100% for real here. The houses around Crown are more expensive and newer than those around the Parkway. Let’s not pretend that this is some improvised area just so people can use words like racism and classism to suit their agenda. The beef isn’t with Crown families or black or brown kids. Some of yall are far too up in Montoya’s butthole. I’m sure the new crown will be a fine school. But that doesn’t mean what happened here was lawful, because it wasn’t.

This is about process, precedent, and following the law.

You sure are obsessed with buttholes. First it was TT's and now Montoya's. Inquiring minds want to know, you prefer them waxed or au natural?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

A huge high school building and an artificial turf football field are going to be boarded up and abandoned in a residential neighborhood. A neighbor school will be shuttered and all of the students that could walk to that school will not need to be buses elsewhere. MCPS doesn’t have money for more buses and can’t afford to transport these students.

The bigger issue is that this is just the beginning of Taylor’s plan to shut down school buildings across the county. He wants to board up dozens of schools for developers to tear down the schools and build condos.

The same school building parents advocated that has serious mold, plumbing, electrical, gas and other major issues.

And? They advocated for Wootton to being fixed. Had MCPS kept their word, Wootton would have been rebuilt 17 years ago. No one asked or advocated to close Wootton and be moved.

Let’s say you had an issue with your beloved home. You ask for some fixes, say a leaky roof. If you advocate for that but instead get forcibly moved, did you also advocate for moving?

You are fool being played by mcps and their narrative. MCPS is literally gaslighting Wootton parents and telling them you asked for this when in reality all of this is a result of deliberate neglect by MCPS for nearly two decades.

But go ahead and keep believing their BS. The board is complacent AF because there’s people like you who don’t have two brain cells to rub together.

We didn't ask for this but we DID ask for a school that was up to the standards we, and all kids, deserve. They couldn't do it in our own building so this was the way they could do it. I need a car to get to work and want a lambo but can't afford one. Do I not buy a Nissan? Also, no need to insult our intelligence because we have a different opinion and are appreciative of the good even if it isn't the perfect.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?

A huge high school building and an artificial turf football field are going to be boarded up and abandoned in a residential neighborhood. A neighbor school will be shuttered and all of the students that could walk to that school will not need to be buses elsewhere. MCPS doesn’t have money for more buses and can’t afford to transport these students.

The bigger issue is that this is just the beginning of Taylor’s plan to shut down school buildings across the county. He wants to board up dozens of schools for developers to tear down the schools and build condos.

The same school building parents advocated that has serious mold, plumbing, electrical, gas and other major issues.

And? They advocated for Wootton to being fixed. Had MCPS kept their word, Wootton would have been rebuilt 17 years ago. No one asked or advocated to close Wootton and be moved.

Let’s say you had an issue with your beloved home. You ask for some fixes, say a leaky roof. If you advocate for that but instead get forcibly moved, did you also advocate for moving?

You are fool being played by mcps and their narrative. MCPS is literally gaslighting Wootton parents and telling them you asked for this when in reality all of this is a result of deliberate neglect by MCPS for nearly two decades.

But go ahead and keep believing their BS. The board is complacent AF because there’s people like you who don’t have two brain cells to rub together.

We didn't ask for this but we DID ask for a school that was up to the standards we, and all kids, deserve. They couldn't do it in our own building so this was the way they could do it. I need a car to get to work and want a lambo but can't afford one. Do I not buy a Nissan? Also, no need to insult our intelligence because we have a different opinion and are appreciative of the good even if it isn't the perfect.

Except this isn’t good?
Sorry that we care about setting precedent and the law?

The analogy isn’t I want a Lambo btw. The comment on your intelligence is showing.

The analogy is I pay my car mechanic money every year to maintain my car. He tells me for 17 years straight that he will fix/rebuild my car. I’m not asking for a lambo. Just proper maintenance on my car, like how he maintains other cars. Instead he decides to say screw it and gives me a completely different car.

O and my old car he says can’t be fixed and isn’t safe to be driven…actually will be driven by someone else not me.

And then he gaslights me about how you told me you wanted a new car when I told him no such thing.

See how little sense this makes?