Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton does not have to sit empty with the neighborhood losing a school.

Move Wootton to Crown.

MCPS should make the current Wootton building (after renovations) a central location for all special needs programs from PEP to 12th grade or more. It is easier to get to Wootton since it is centrally located.

As it is all schools are having issues with SES kids, so having a school for them with dedicated resources will be a good thing for them as well as the NT kids.

And what better location than Wootton?

I honestly don’t know if you guys are just being purposely dense at this point or you really don’t see how incredibly stupid it is to keep insisting the school is renovated FOR SOMETHING else but not to stay Wootton. If the school is going to be renovated and not sit empty then it should absolutely be renovated for Wootton. It makes absolutely no sense to have no problem with the school being renovated for literally any other use but have a problem for it to be renovated for the current community.

The renovations that MCPS envisions as being necessary to bring a holding facility up to usability ("anyone can tolerate such conditions for 2 or so years...") are significantly different from those they envision as being necessary when addressing a facility to be occupied long term by a single community. At the same time, the relatively large planning, start-up, etc., costs and financially unaccoun community impacts associated with capital projects mean that they wouldn't engage in a project that only would go that part way (up to holding school usability) to be followed by one that would go the rest of the way (up to lomg-term usability by a single community).

The costs for that holding-school usability project for Wootton, should Wootton move to Crown, would be considerably less than those for the various scopes which would be, or previously have been, considered for Wootton renovation if Wootton were to remain open at its current location.

pp here. I was specifically responding to the poster who said it should be made into a permanent special needs hub. Which would in fact, be a long term community just like Current Wootton. But again, even if they made the necessary repairs to make it acceptable as a holding school, then as a wootton parent I would then absolutely be happy to wait until 2035 for the more intense renovations. And also, the kids go to HS for 4 years, that really isn’t significantly different than 2. So I don’t think that argument really holds weight. And i’m not considering the teachers/administration because they can essentially transfer to another school if they so choose-the students don’t have that option.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton does not have to sit empty with the neighborhood losing a school.

Move Wootton to Crown.

MCPS should make the current Wootton building (after renovations) a central location for all special needs programs from PEP to 12th grade or more. It is easier to get to Wootton since it is centrally located.

As it is all schools are having issues with SES kids, so having a school for them with dedicated resources will be a good thing for them as well as the NT kids.

And what better location than Wootton?

Are you kidding me? Crown is way more centrally located and easier to access. Wootton is farther away from most schools

Looking just now at google maps, the drive times from Damascus, Einstein, Kennedy and Sherwood, four schools mentioned earlier in this thread, are all between 23 and 27 minutes. For some, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Wootton. For others, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Crown.

Of course, these numbers would go up during the weekday with traffic, but they would remain relatively similar in comparison. Any difference, here, is like the difference in walk zones -- one or other set of neighborhoods might benefit at the expense of the other, but neither holding school option, Wootton or Crown, really presents a significant differential walk zone benefit to the county as a whole, and the same goes for drive-time access by communities needing a holding facility.

It would be better to concentrate on other aspects of the options when suggesting there is a relative benefit in one or the other.

If Crown or Wootton becomes a long-term holding school, it has to be able to hold the displaced student body. Damascus will prob fit anywhere, but my guess is that any HS needing UMBC as a graduation site like Sherwood or QO will be too large to fit into Wootton.

Not sure anyone has bothered to look into basic stats like that. So much pontificating, but overlooking key details - which is par for the course with MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton does not have to sit empty with the neighborhood losing a school.

Move Wootton to Crown.

MCPS should make the current Wootton building (after renovations) a central location for all special needs programs from PEP to 12th grade or more. It is easier to get to Wootton since it is centrally located.

As it is all schools are having issues with SES kids, so having a school for them with dedicated resources will be a good thing for them as well as the NT kids.

And what better location than Wootton?

Are you kidding me? Crown is way more centrally located and easier to access. Wootton is farther away from most schools

Looking just now at google maps, the drive times from Damascus, Einstein, Kennedy and Sherwood, four schools mentioned earlier in this thread, are all between 23 and 27 minutes. For some, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Wootton. For others, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Crown.

Of course, these numbers would go up during the weekday with traffic, but they would remain relatively similar in comparison. Any difference, here, is like the difference in walk zones -- one or other set of neighborhoods might benefit at the expense of the other, but neither holding school option, Wootton or Crown, really presents a significant differential walk zone benefit to the county as a whole, and the same goes for drive-time access by communities needing a holding facility.

It would be better to concentrate on other aspects of the options when suggesting there is a relative benefit in one or the other.

If Crown or Wootton becomes a long-term holding school, it has to be able to hold the displaced student body. Damascus will prob fit anywhere, but my guess is that any HS needing UMBC as a graduation site like Sherwood or QO will be too large to fit into Wootton.

Not sure anyone has bothered to look into basic stats like that. So much pontificating, but overlooking key details - which is par for the course with MCPS.

All schools go to umbc.

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Anonymous wrote:Turning Wootton HS as a holding school is just an option for future projects which won't happen probably at the earliest until Damascus HS is fully renovated/rebuilt. It all depends on the mcps enrollment numbers and money fund. If there is not enough mcps enrollment and no money, they may not need a holding school or push the idea of turning Wootton HS as a holding school more later like a decade or two later. It is just my thoughts. We don't need a holding school or permanent Crown HS when mcps is currently underenrolled.

Yeah definitely better to have a huge abandoned building right on Wootton pkwy for the foreseeable future. Also if you have ever talked to anyone in construction-the longer a building sits empty like that, its condition just gets considerably worse.

You must be new around here. The Wootton building won't be abandoned. MCPS will sell the land to a developer for cheap to build new housing that will then feed into Crown. Maybe even a townhouse development that will vastly increase traffic on Wootton Parkway.

Keeping Wootton where it is controls traffic speeds and increases safety along Wootton Parkway.

You will make up anything to keep your school where it is, won't you?

A townhouse development would not add more traffic than your existing school. But if it did, how is that different than development in any other part of county?

What are you talking about? It's a narrow, 2-lane road surrounded by exercise trails and residential neighborhoods. A massive new residential development is guaranteed to increase traffic, just like building a brand new school in an already traffic congested area. Oh wait, MCPS already did that - and you want to make traffic around Crown even worse?

You're so desperate to stick it to Wootton and feel that you're this >< close to achieving your lifelong dream with Option H.

Just admit that you don't live in Wootton and don't care about Wootton families.

You want a new school and are offered one. Stop complaining. Many schools are worse off.

Wootton families don't want a new school 3 miles away. How many times has that been said and countless other threads? You're so desperate to sell Wootton families a new school building they never asked for and don't want. Sounds like you have something significant to gain from a Wootton move. Why don't you tell us all what that is?

Then deal with what you have like the rest of us do. What would you suggest cutting to build you a new school?

Tell me where I asked for for MCPS to build a brand new school and cut in front of other schools. I'll wait....

Oh wait, you can't. The ask of Wootton families is clear. Don't move Wootton to Crown. Remediate the pressing issues at Wootton and they will wait their turn - for the third time - until 2035. Wootton families will deal with what we have to "like the rest of us."

As a PP indicated, the quoted amount on the CIP sheet for Wootton is likely for a full renovation, not remediation. If MCPS can find the money to move Wootton to Crown (there are costs involved in a move), and then remediate Wootton to make it a holding school (whether immediately or in 2027 when Crown opens), then it can remediate Wootton now and let it stay where it is.

Why are you pushing for a move so badly? What's in it for you? Come on, you can tell us....

Just because MCPS built a school that will now allegedly be under enrolled (which I doubt) doesn't mean it should compound its mistake by destroying Wootton as it is today.

MCPS would have to find the funds to do both: finish building Crown and renovate Wootton. And no, they cannot stop building Crown. They would lose the land, and that would be a waste of the millions they already spent on the construction to date.

What's in it for taxpayers? Not wasting more money, especially money the county doesn't have. Have you not heard? MoCo revenue will be short by hundreds of millions.

All of these CIPs were planned when MoCo anticipated positive revenue growth. Things have drastically changed, in case you haven't noticed. More than likely, they will want to increase taxes to fill the gaps. I'm sick of paying more in taxes for less services.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/12/montgomery-county-projects-854-million-less-in-revenues-over-6-years/

Nobody is asking for the bolded - to renovate Wootton. Remediate the urgent issues, but not a full renovation.

They can also slow down (not stop) building Crown and open it a year or two later. This would seem prudent if there aren't enough students to fill it.

There is no money, just like with other schools.

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I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

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They can move the special progeams away from the overcrowded school to the under utilized schools.

Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

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Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

It doesn't. It achieves the following:

1. Removes the political pressure from Wootton families on MCPS to remediate (not renovate) issues at Wootton
2. Removes Wootton from the Capital Improvement Plan in 2035 (after being removed twice previously, but now permanently - third time's a charm)
3. Moves the Wootton boundary to include GHS neighborhoods by moving Wootton 3 miles, achieving previous boundary study goals/recommendations that were rejected
4. Redistributes the high achievers from Wootton to a new school and mixes them with kids from much lower-achieving school(s), hoping for improved grades by peer influence
5. Removes the political pressure from vocal, non-W school neighborhoods that such schools are bastions of white, privileged, rich families
6. Frees up prime real estate on Wootton Parkway for substantial residential development, enriching a developer that will make campaign contributions for years to come
7. Covers up a mistake by MCPS in accepting "free land" and building a new high school in a congested, high-traffic area right off the highway
8. Generates more tax revenues from increased business at the shops and restaurants surrounding Crown (and potential campaign contributions for years to come from those businesses)

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Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

It doesn't. It achieves the following:

1. Removes the political pressure from Wootton families on MCPS to remediate (not renovate) issues at Wootton
2. Removes Wootton from the Capital Improvement Plan in 2035 (after being removed twice previously, but now permanently - third time's a charm)
3. Moves the Wootton boundary to include GHS neighborhoods by moving Wootton 3 miles, achieving previous boundary study goals/recommendations that were rejected
4. Redistributes the high achievers from Wootton to a new school and mixes them with kids from much lower-achieving school(s), hoping for improved grades by peer influence
5. Removes the political pressure from vocal, non-W school neighborhoods that such schools are bastions of white, privileged, rich families
6. Frees up prime real estate on Wootton Parkway for substantial residential development, enriching a developer that will make campaign contributions for years to come
7. Covers up a mistake by MCPS in accepting "free land" and building a new high school in a congested, high-traffic area right off the highway
8. Generates more tax revenues from increased business at the shops and restaurants surrounding Crown (and potential campaign contributions for years to come from those businesses)

Can you expand a little more on your #4?

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Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

It doesn't. It achieves the following:

1. Removes the political pressure from Wootton families on MCPS to remediate (not renovate) issues at Wootton
2. Removes Wootton from the Capital Improvement Plan in 2035 (after being removed twice previously, but now permanently - third time's a charm)
3. Moves the Wootton boundary to include GHS neighborhoods by moving Wootton 3 miles, achieving previous boundary study goals/recommendations that were rejected
4. Redistributes the high achievers from Wootton to a new school and mixes them with kids from much lower-achieving school(s), hoping for improved grades by peer influence
5. Removes the political pressure from vocal, non-W school neighborhoods that such schools are bastions of white, privileged, rich families
6. Frees up prime real estate on Wootton Parkway for substantial residential development, enriching a developer that will make campaign contributions for years to come
7. Covers up a mistake by MCPS in accepting "free land" and building a new high school in a congested, high-traffic area right off the highway
8. Generates more tax revenues from increased business at the shops and restaurants surrounding Crown (and potential campaign contributions for years to come from those businesses)

Can you expand a little more on your #4?

Not the pp but It means Wootton will not be a top performing school anymore. That list that comes out with the best high schools in MD-it will no longer be on it. Basically it will probably be a very small step up from Gaithersburg HS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

It doesn't. It achieves the following:

1. Removes the political pressure from Wootton families on MCPS to remediate (not renovate) issues at Wootton
2. Removes Wootton from the Capital Improvement Plan in 2035 (after being removed twice previously, but now permanently - third time's a charm)
3. Moves the Wootton boundary to include GHS neighborhoods by moving Wootton 3 miles, achieving previous boundary study goals/recommendations that were rejected
4. Redistributes the high achievers from Wootton to a new school and mixes them with kids from much lower-achieving school(s), hoping for improved grades by peer influence
5. Removes the political pressure from vocal, non-W school neighborhoods that such schools are bastions of white, privileged, rich families
6. Frees up prime real estate on Wootton Parkway for substantial residential development, enriching a developer that will make campaign contributions for years to come
7. Covers up a mistake by MCPS in accepting "free land" and building a new high school in a congested, high-traffic area right off the highway
8. Generates more tax revenues from increased business at the shops and restaurants surrounding Crown (and potential campaign contributions for years to come from those businesses)

Can you expand a little more on your #4?

Not the pp but It means Wootton will not be a top performing school anymore. That list that comes out with the best high schools in MD-it will no longer be on it. Basically it will probably be a very small step up from Gaithersburg HS.

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Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

It doesn't. It achieves the following:

1. Removes the political pressure from Wootton families on MCPS to remediate (not renovate) issues at Wootton
2. Removes Wootton from the Capital Improvement Plan in 2035 (after being removed twice previously, but now permanently - third time's a charm)
3. Moves the Wootton boundary to include GHS neighborhoods by moving Wootton 3 miles, achieving previous boundary study goals/recommendations that were rejected
4. Redistributes the high achievers from Wootton to a new school and mixes them with kids from much lower-achieving school(s), hoping for improved grades by peer influence
5. Removes the political pressure from vocal, non-W school neighborhoods that such schools are bastions of white, privileged, rich families
6. Frees up prime real estate on Wootton Parkway for substantial residential development, enriching a developer that will make campaign contributions for years to come
7. Covers up a mistake by MCPS in accepting "free land" and building a new high school in a congested, high-traffic area right off the highway
8. Generates more tax revenues from increased business at the shops and restaurants surrounding Crown (and potential campaign contributions for years to come from those businesses)

Can you expand a little more on your #4?

Not the pp but It means Wootton will not be a top performing school anymore. That list that comes out with the best high schools in MD-it will no longer be on it. Basically it will probably be a very small step up from Gaithersburg HS.

Yet, you know perfectly well that it’s exactly what will happen.

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Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

It doesn't. It achieves the following:

1. Removes the political pressure from Wootton families on MCPS to remediate (not renovate) issues at Wootton
2. Removes Wootton from the Capital Improvement Plan in 2035 (after being removed twice previously, but now permanently - third time's a charm)
3. Moves the Wootton boundary to include GHS neighborhoods by moving Wootton 3 miles, achieving previous boundary study goals/recommendations that were rejected
4. Redistributes the high achievers from Wootton to a new school and mixes them with kids from much lower-achieving school(s), hoping for improved grades by peer influence
5. Removes the political pressure from vocal, non-W school neighborhoods that such schools are bastions of white, privileged, rich families
6. Frees up prime real estate on Wootton Parkway for substantial residential development, enriching a developer that will make campaign contributions for years to come
7. Covers up a mistake by MCPS in accepting "free land" and building a new high school in a congested, high-traffic area right off the highway
8. Generates more tax revenues from increased business at the shops and restaurants surrounding Crown (and potential campaign contributions for years to come from those businesses)

Can you expand a little more on your #4?

Not the pp but It means Wootton will not be a top performing school anymore. That list that comes out with the best high schools in MD-it will no longer be on it. Basically it will probably be a very small step up from Gaithersburg HS.

Yet, you know perfectly well that it’s exactly what will happen.

Not at all

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Anonymous wrote:I"m confused. If they use Crown for Wootton, and move one or two additional GHS neighborhoods to Crown, how does that the overcrowding at the neighboring schools like RM, QO, NW?

It doesn't. It achieves the following:

1. Removes the political pressure from Wootton families on MCPS to remediate (not renovate) issues at Wootton
2. Removes Wootton from the Capital Improvement Plan in 2035 (after being removed twice previously, but now permanently - third time's a charm)
3. Moves the Wootton boundary to include GHS neighborhoods by moving Wootton 3 miles, achieving previous boundary study goals/recommendations that were rejected
4. Redistributes the high achievers from Wootton to a new school and mixes them with kids from much lower-achieving school(s), hoping for improved grades by peer influence
5. Removes the political pressure from vocal, non-W school neighborhoods that such schools are bastions of white, privileged, rich families
6. Frees up prime real estate on Wootton Parkway for substantial residential development, enriching a developer that will make campaign contributions for years to come
7. Covers up a mistake by MCPS in accepting "free land" and building a new high school in a congested, high-traffic area right off the highway
8. Generates more tax revenues from increased business at the shops and restaurants surrounding Crown (and potential campaign contributions for years to come from those businesses)

1) Yes. But, location aside for the moment, it does much, much better with a new facility than remediation or even renovation from a facilities perspective.

2) Yes. But it seems that that also means a couple hundred million not spent in comparison, along with those high schools the line after Magruder all being advanced by 2 years.

3) Yes. But the whole idea of a boundary study is to make things more feasible than they are, utilizing spaces available to relieve the lumpy overcrowding and other differential conditions that arise over the years...and it's been somewhere in the range of 30 since the system has been addressed to this extent. Honestly, more is needed.

4) A new location, not a new school. Wootton looks as though it would be kept relatively whole, unless you are really just underlining a distaste for that inclusion of additional feeder elementaries

5) Some, yes. Others simply point out that the opportunities available at some schools should be equivalently available to all, and that, to the extent that they are differentially more available at schools that tend to serve wealthier communities, that dichotomy should be changed.

6) However much Montgomery Planning and the County Council may salivate over that prospect, MCPS knows it would be terribly difficult to get the land it might need in the future, and would be rather loath to part with any currently in its possession.

7) With regard to being right off of a highway in a congested area, this is not unique. See also: Blair. See above about the reason MCPS may have decided to acquire the land, and, at the time that decision was made, projections pointed to the need for more seats, not fewer.

8) Possibly, yes, but likely a rather marginal differential, and not likely to move the needle politically.

This is not to say that any of the points is entirely invalid, but that they are better considered in a more holistic or nuanced context. There are other considerations mentioned previously in this thread, as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton does not have to sit empty with the neighborhood losing a school.

Move Wootton to Crown.

MCPS should make the current Wootton building (after renovations) a central location for all special needs programs from PEP to 12th grade or more. It is easier to get to Wootton since it is centrally located.

As it is all schools are having issues with SES kids, so having a school for them with dedicated resources will be a good thing for them as well as the NT kids.

And what better location than Wootton?

Are you kidding me? Crown is way more centrally located and easier to access. Wootton is farther away from most schools

Looking just now at google maps, the drive times from Damascus, Einstein, Kennedy and Sherwood, four schools mentioned earlier in this thread, are all between 23 and 27 minutes. For some, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Wootton. For others, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Crown.

Of course, these numbers would go up during the weekday with traffic, but they would remain relatively similar in comparison. Any difference, here, is like the difference in walk zones -- one or other set of neighborhoods might benefit at the expense of the other, but neither holding school option, Wootton or Crown, really presents a significant differential walk zone benefit to the county as a whole, and the same goes for drive-time access by communities needing a holding facility.

It would be better to concentrate on other aspects of the options when suggesting there is a relative benefit in one or the other.

If Crown or Wootton becomes a long-term holding school, it has to be able to hold the displaced student body. Damascus will prob fit anywhere, but my guess is that any HS needing UMBC as a graduation site like Sherwood or QO will be too large to fit into Wootton.

Not sure anyone has bothered to look into basic stats like that. So much pontificating, but overlooking key details - which is par for the course with MCPS.

Swing spaces/holding facilities generally use a relatively high number of portable classrooms to meet capacity needs. This may be among the reasons that they would not want to sell any of the current Wootton land.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton does not have to sit empty with the neighborhood losing a school.

Move Wootton to Crown.

MCPS should make the current Wootton building (after renovations) a central location for all special needs programs from PEP to 12th grade or more. It is easier to get to Wootton since it is centrally located.

As it is all schools are having issues with SES kids, so having a school for them with dedicated resources will be a good thing for them as well as the NT kids.

And what better location than Wootton?

I honestly don’t know if you guys are just being purposely dense at this point or you really don’t see how incredibly stupid it is to keep insisting the school is renovated FOR SOMETHING else but not to stay Wootton. If the school is going to be renovated and not sit empty then it should absolutely be renovated for Wootton. It makes absolutely no sense to have no problem with the school being renovated for literally any other use but have a problem for it to be renovated for the current community.

The renovations that MCPS envisions as being necessary to bring a holding facility up to usability ("anyone can tolerate such conditions for 2 or so years...") are significantly different from those they envision as being necessary when addressing a facility to be occupied long term by a single community. At the same time, the relatively large planning, start-up, etc., costs and financially unaccoun community impacts associated with capital projects mean that they wouldn't engage in a project that only would go that part way (up to holding school usability) to be followed by one that would go the rest of the way (up to lomg-term usability by a single community).

The costs for that holding-school usability project for Wootton, should Wootton move to Crown, would be considerably less than those for the various scopes which would be, or previously have been, considered for Wootton renovation if Wootton were to remain open at its current location.

pp here. I was specifically responding to the poster who said it should be made into a permanent special needs hub. Which would in fact, be a long term community just like Current Wootton. But again, even if they made the necessary repairs to make it acceptable as a holding school, then as a wootton parent I would then absolutely be happy to wait until 2035 for the more intense renovations. And also, the kids go to HS for 4 years, that really isn’t significantly different than 2. So I don’t think that argument really holds weight. And i’m not considering the teachers/administration because they can essentially transfer to another school if they so choose-the students don’t have that option.

[Click & Clack voice] Eh, yeh see, that's yawr prowblem right theah. [/voice]

Jocularity about that inconsiderate notion aside, and noting that 4 years is more than 2, and that families often experience far more than 4 years as multiple children pass through a school, due to the inefficiencies and community effects, also mentioned, of condicting a series of smaller capital projects at one site, a follow-up project likely wouldn't be started until more like 2050. That is, unless MCPS decided to use the site as another high school instead of as a holding school -- say, if development in the area saw a rebound in student population.