Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What really *should* have happened if so many Wootton parents weren't so hellbent on getting a brand new school on the current Wootton site AND keeping their entire cluster together (totally unrealistic when it is a boundary study intended to redraw boundaries of multiple schools) is the following:

- Crown HS - populated with DuFief, Stone Mill, Travilah, Rosemont, and Fields Road, (with Fallsmead Rio island going to Crown)

- Wootton (at current location) - Fallsmead (without Rio island), Lakewood, Cold Spring, and Ritchie Park

- RM - Twinbrook, Beall, Bayard Rustin, and College Gardens

This scenario would help to alleviate the overcrowding at RM, focus on geographic proximity for filling Crown while keeping 3 of the Wootton cluster schools together at both current Wootton and Crown, and maximize walkers/minimize buses at Wootton. Right now 100% of Ritchie Park kids are bussed to RM, but at least 60% could walk to Wootton.

I know Ritchie Park wanted to stay at JW and RM, but again, that is nonsensical from a boundary study perspective as well - at least one school in the RM cluster should/should have been moved to fulfill the original plan/promise to alleviate RM overcrowding and Ritchie Park makes the most sense from a geographic, minimizing buses perspective.

But you are ignoring FARMS in your scenario (or maybe you aren't because you would be at your dream Wootton).

DP. I don't know what you're trying to accomplish. FARMS is not controlled by the school. It's controlled by the parents.

In my opinion, the best way MCPS can help FARMS students is to intercept them early in Elementary School. Provide the academic basics. Provide hope. And, in my opinion, institute a program that any top student (as evidenced by standardized test scores, FARMS or not) may be granted the right to COSA to any other under-capacity school of their choice in MCPS as a reward. This incentivizes learning and achievement.

My guess is that wouldn't make you happy if an academically competitive environment was created? My guess is you really don't care about FARMS kids? Am I right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone see the BOE work session today? I missed it. Any developments? Still looking like H?

It's still going on.

Is this online? Is there a link to watch?

It's done now. Here's the recording:

Over 3 hours, anyone can give highlights?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What really *should* have happened if so many Wootton parents weren't so hellbent on getting a brand new school on the current Wootton site AND keeping their entire cluster together (totally unrealistic when it is a boundary study intended to redraw boundaries of multiple schools) is the following:

- Crown HS - populated with DuFief, Stone Mill, Travilah, Rosemont, and Fields Road, (with Fallsmead Rio island going to Crown)

- Wootton (at current location) - Fallsmead (without Rio island), Lakewood, Cold Spring, and Ritchie Park

- RM - Twinbrook, Beall, Bayard Rustin, and College Gardens

This scenario would help to alleviate the overcrowding at RM, focus on geographic proximity for filling Crown while keeping 3 of the Wootton cluster schools together at both current Wootton and Crown, and maximize walkers/minimize buses at Wootton. Right now 100% of Ritchie Park kids are bussed to RM, but at least 60% could walk to Wootton.

I know Ritchie Park wanted to stay at JW and RM, but again, that is nonsensical from a boundary study perspective as well - at least one school in the RM cluster should/should have been moved to fulfill the original plan/promise to alleviate RM overcrowding and Ritchie Park makes the most sense from a geographic, minimizing buses perspective.

But you are ignoring FARMS in your scenario (or maybe you aren't because you would be at your dream Wootton).

DP. I don't know what you're trying to accomplish. FARMS is not controlled by the school. It's controlled by the parents.

In my opinion, the best way MCPS can help FARMS students is to intercept them early in Elementary School. Provide the academic basics. Provide hope. And, in my opinion, institute a program that any top student (as evidenced by standardized test scores, FARMS or not) may be granted the right to COSA to any other under-capacity school of their choice in MCPS as a reward. This incentivizes learning and achievement.

My guess is that wouldn't make you happy if an academically competitive environment was created? My guess is you really don't care about FARMS kids? Am I right?

Moving kids out of schools doesn’t work. Providing more to those schools would be a better solution. Many of our kids are at high farms schools and the lack of course offerings is a problem, especially because some of the smarter kids go to other schools leaving others with little.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone see the BOE work session today? I missed it. Any developments? Still looking like H?

It's still going on.

Is this online? Is there a link to watch?

It's done now. Here's the recording:

Over 3 hours, anyone can give highlights?

You can bet on Wootton going to Crown. Wootton will finally be saved

[Anonymous]

looks like option h is gonna pass based on that meeting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s clear the naysayers on this thread are likely residents of Crown or its environs whose kids don’t or wouldn’t go to Wootton where it is today. They’re excited about opening a new school (built for someone else) and calling it Wootton (a lie) to boost their property values and improve the Gaithersburg tax base.

The fact that Wootton families are almost universally opposed to closing Wootton and transplanting some of its students to Crown should speak volumes to the BOE. Unfortunately, political deals have been cut to cover up MCPS’ incompetence and reward Gaithersburg with a “W” school (which used to have a well-performing school in QO, but no longer). I guess it’s equity at work once again.

I'm a naysayer who lives elsewhere in the County. Your arguments are not convincing, and frankly, off-putting. (As if your property values aren't on you mind.)

How do YOU want to fund the school system? Will you double your property taxes? Step up now to help.

[Anonymous]

Buckle up folks. If the recommendation passes, there will 100% be lawsuits. So have fun wasting taxpayers money!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buckle up folks. If the recommendation passes, there will 100% be lawsuits. So have fun wasting taxpayers money!

Which would be the ultimate Whiny Wootton move—you worked SO HARD and still didn’t get what you wanted so now you want to punish everyone else by wasting even more money. Yea—-no good will towards you will come from a lawsuit. Drop it, man. Sucks but move right along.

[Anonymous]

I 100% support a lawsuit and would contribute to funds for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I 100% support a lawsuit and would contribute to funds for it.

Sincere question: Do you care about the legal basis for that suit and sincerely believe that a law has been violated? Or do you sincerely want the Wootton site to stay open as is and are invested enough to fight for that by any means available?

To be clear- I have no objection to either. That is how our legal system is designed. 8’m just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buckle up folks. If the recommendation passes, there will 100% be lawsuits. So have fun wasting taxpayers money!

Which would be the ultimate Whiny Wootton move—you worked SO HARD and still didn’t get what you wanted so now you want to punish everyone else by wasting even more money. Yea—-no good will towards you will come from a lawsuit. Drop it, man. Sucks but move right along.

You mean wasting money like how Taylor is doing right now in court paying outside lawyers to defend MCPS keeping the illegal ev bus contract in place?

2 years of litigation and counting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I 100% support a lawsuit and would contribute to funds for it.

Clearly MCPS has been documenting every step in the process, knowing someone would get mad enough to sue just like the Clarksburg families. The lawsuit will fail, and on Aug something 2027, Wootton will reopen at the Crown site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% support a lawsuit and would contribute to funds for it.

Clearly MCPS has been documenting every step in the process, knowing someone would get mad enough to sue just like the Clarksburg families. The lawsuit will fail, and on Aug something 2027, Wootton will reopen at the Crown site.

LOL like MCPS documents. Good one.

[Anonymous]

According to the current trend, modified H option seems to be the ultimate decision by the board on March 26th. Wootton will be at Crown site.

[Anonymous]

how were the people giving testimonies to the board selected? was it the first to sign up or was there some sort of selection process? there seemed to be a lot of dufief speakers. did they select dufief speakers purposefully since dufief is the strongest advocates of Taylor's recommendation?