Give Taylor's CIP recommendations a chance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

I don't know why you think that's the quiet part. Of course a holding school brings the least benefit to the surrounding community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

I don't know why you think that's the quiet part. Of course a holding school brings the least benefit to the surrounding community.

I thought the pro H crowd on this board said the community was irrelevant? Or is it only the Wootton community that is irrelevant. Gaithersburg community is very relevant if it has something to gain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

It's common for schools- especially high schools- to have their boundaries changed as part of building a new building. Why should Wootton be an exception to that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

I don't know why you think that's the quiet part. Of course a holding school brings the least benefit to the surrounding community.

I thought the pro H crowd on this board said the community was irrelevant? Or is it only the Wootton community that is irrelevant. Gaithersburg community is very relevant if it has something to gain.

I didn't say it was a good basis for a decision impacting the entire county. It is just a very natural position for a mayor of Gaithersburg to take. Kind of like if a white supremacist living in the current service area were to speak out against any boundary change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our schools are a complete mess. For the first time, we have a Superintendent interested in shining a light in dark places and actively working for transparency while trying to make the schools better. Let's give him a chance.

Oh stop it, Essie. Get off DCUM. Taylor set up a bad game of dominoes with his CIP budget. Read Mark Elrich's remarks about the MCPS to gain a rational sense of where Taylor went wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree, OP. He is trying and we should give it a chance. MCPS employee and MCPS parent here.

+1. He's not been perfect by any means, but he's overall been a change for the better from the previous regime.

McKnight was an incredibly low bar. Try again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unbelievable that OP feels it’s their duty and job to beg the public to not be critical of the superintendent of our school system who is deciding how to use our tax dollars to educate our kids.

Are you insane?

Furthermore, if Taylor cannot defend his plans or ideas to the public, then they’re probably not sound.

He can’t defend them, but he doesn’t have to because he has the BOE votes in hand before he makes a move. The community is irrelevant unless they speak through the BOE.

Taylor listens to no one. He is always right, didn't you know? I'll be interested to see if he feels shaky ground under a new BOE. If he isn't gone voluntarily by SY 2027, they will take care of that matter for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

And that’s the reason for closing it, moving the boundaries, adding 700 new students from other high schools, and changing the name to Wootton @ Crown (instead of Thomas Wootton High School)? If Wootton is the worst in the county, why wasn’t it repaired last year, or the year before that? Why was it pulled off the CIP three different times? MCPS hasn’t answered any of these questions, and doesn’t want to answer them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

And that’s the reason for closing it, moving the boundaries, adding 700 new students from other high schools, and changing the name to Wootton @ Crown (instead of Thomas Wootton High School)? If Wootton is the worst in the county, why wasn’t it repaired last year, or the year before that? Why was it pulled off the CIP three different times? MCPS hasn’t answered any of these questions, and doesn’t want to answer them.

Add students to an underutilized school? The horror!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

They haven't surveyed all the schools yet so we'll see when all the survey's are done. However, it does have a lot of serious issues going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

Anyone who really looks into Wootton outside of test scores is going to be concerned about the violence at the school, especially since they have the first school shooting inside the school. Instead of worrying about this, you have bigger things to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

Anyone who really looks into Wootton outside of test scores is going to be concerned about the violence at the school, especially since they have the first school shooting inside the school. Instead of worrying about this, you have bigger things to worry about.

No. Magruder was the first MCPS school to have a shooting happen inside the school. Wootton is the second.