Wootton Announces They Have Formally Retained Silverman & Thompson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Good questions for the trolls who live in said buttholes.

[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.

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?

Your analogy does make little sense and isn't accurate:
1) your mechanic didn't maintain any of the cars in his lot.
2) why did you stay with him if you were unhappy? You thought you were special enough he would do something for you?
3) your old car tht is on it's last leg isn't going to be driven by anyone else for any kind of lengthy roadtrip until 2033 at the earliest (when presumably they will find money to fix the engine but maybe not the radio still).

[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.

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?

Your analogy does make little sense and isn't accurate:
1) your mechanic didn't maintain any of the cars in his lot.
2) why did you stay with him if you were unhappy? You thought you were special enough he would do something for you?
3) your old car tht is on it's last leg isn't going to be driven by anyone else for any kind of lengthy roadtrip until 2033 at the earliest (when presumably they will find money to fix the engine but maybe not the radio still).

Agree the car analogy sucks but hey the previous PP decided to use cars not me

1. Not true. See BCC and WJ

2. O ok let’s pretend we can just all easily pick up and move or go to private school. You hear that DCUM. You can’t complain about MCPS, you should just move. I’m sorry I thought government should be held accountable for their actions. Do you agree with Trump? If not, why don’t you just move out of the U.S. again—lack of brain cells on display here—what a ridiculous response

3. So the mechanic says. Yet this is the same mechanic who signed illegal contracts, wastes millions of dollars, missed out on 40 million in state aid, full of bloat, etc. And even so, doesn’t change the fact that what happened here was illegal.

The answer to your car is beyond repair can’t be listen to the mechanic who is responsible for my car getting to this state.

This “mechanic” clearly can’t be trusted anymore and needs to be held accountable.

[Anonymous]

If you have money to waste on meritless lawsuits, you have money to move. Your property value really hasn't plummeted. And if you rent, sounds like a good time to end that lease and move.

Let's end this ridiculous analogy and hopefully you'll give us a better one in the op ed, LOL.

[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 are trolling. This started because of the complaints about the building being unsafe. Many MCPS buildings are unsafe and neglected. Wootton is the only school that got an immediate solution. And, a few dozen, some not even at the school are now made over it. You don’t represent the majority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 are trolling. This started because of the complaints about the building being unsafe. Many MCPS buildings are unsafe and neglected. Wootton is the only school that got an immediate solution. And, a few dozen, some not even at the school are now made over it. You don’t represent the majority.

Imagine calling 17 years of neglect “an immediate solution”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 are trolling. This started because of the complaints about the building being unsafe. Many MCPS buildings are unsafe and neglected. Wootton is the only school that got an immediate solution. And, a few dozen, some not even at the school are now made over it. You don’t represent the majority.

Imagine calling 17 years of neglect “an immediate solution”

https://moderatelymoco.com/mcpss-culture-of-neglect-how-deferred-maintenance-became-a-systemwide-failure/

If Wootton got an “immediate solution,” they should have been rebuilt over more than a decade and a half ago and yet here we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Good questions for the trolls who live in said buttholes.

You make the Wootton community and advocates look really bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 are trolling. This started because of the complaints about the building being unsafe. Many MCPS buildings are unsafe and neglected. Wootton is the only school that got an immediate solution. And, a few dozen, some not even at the school are now made over it. You don’t represent the majority.

Imagine calling 17 years of neglect “an immediate solution”

https://moderatelymoco.com/mcpss-culture-of-neglect-how-deferred-maintenance-became-a-systemwide-failure/

If Wootton got an “immediate solution,” they should have been rebuilt over more than a decade and a half ago and yet here we are.

Many schools should have but aren’t nor even on the radar for repairs. This is a good solution.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was on my high school debate team and will entertain this ridiculous deflection with the knowledge that you literally own a debate school so I know your calculated move here: No, I am not MAGA but also not suing the federal government because I don't like what they are doing. I'm voting against them and encouraging others to do the same just as you should do with elected officials you are unhappy with. As for TT, he's going to be here for a while.

Doesn’t matter if it’s TT and MCPS or the federal government, all governmental bodies should be held accountable. Of course you don’t sue governmental bodies simply because you don’t like what they are doing. You sue because they are breaking the law.

This isn’t mutually exclusive either. Why is the choice sue or vote.

It’s sue and vote.

Because suing won't get the Parkway Parents what they want, it'll at best delay and even that is a heavy lift. Also, I've yet to see a plausible claim that MCPS / BoE broke the law or failed to follow Policy FAA, but I guess we'll have to see what the law firm comes up with.

Voting in a slate of BoE / County Council members that will prioritize rebuilding Wootton on the Parkway is the only permanent solution for the "Save Wootton" folks. For people who are more annoyed by the process rather than the result, vote in BoE members who promise to run the next boundary study in a way you think it should have been done.

P.S. As mentioned before, it sucks that MCPS let the state of the Parkway building get to where it is now (and other buildings too). It sucks that MCPS ended up building a brand new building using enrollment projections that ended up being off by a lot for a variety of reasons. However, I'm not here to litigate past decisions.

As it stands, we have a crumbling building on one hand, a brand new building in another and a county that has fiscal constraints and falling enrollment. It just makes the most sense to move Wootton into Crown.

[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.

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?

Your analogy does make little sense and isn't accurate:
1) your mechanic didn't maintain any of the cars in his lot.
2) why did you stay with him if you were unhappy? You thought you were special enough he would do something for you?
3) your old car tht is on it's last leg isn't going to be driven by anyone else for any kind of lengthy roadtrip until 2033 at the earliest (when presumably they will find money to fix the engine but maybe not the radio still).

Per these comments, Wootton families can move as why stay in a location where they are unhappy with the school. Plenty of other W schools to move to.

[Anonymous]

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.

Untrue. Many many students will still be able to walk to the school. Potentially even a higher number of students. It is just a different subset of them.

[Anonymous]

I am the person who asked on the previous page what is going on--what decision has been made and why people are upset. I am trying to piece it together from your answers, but am struggling. It sounds like wootton is a long-existing high school that is in serious disrepair. The community there asked for help. The county put off repairing it, and now, in the recent boundary study, decided to close that school building entirely and send the kids who would have gone there to an existing school in Gaithersburg. Is that correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the person who asked on the previous page what is going on--what decision has been made and why people are upset. I am trying to piece it together from your answers, but am struggling. It sounds like wootton is a long-existing high school that is in serious disrepair. The community there asked for help. The county put off repairing it, and now, in the recent boundary study, decided to close that school building entirely and send the kids who would have gone there to an existing school in Gaithersburg. Is that correct?

Yes, this is correct. However, the people who live near the current Wootton building are furious (for a variety of reasons) and rather than accept the current state of affairs they want to delay/stop the entire process under the rationale something went wrong via the decision making process.

They think money will magically appear to fix the current building. So instead of accepting the decision and the new school they are being given, they want to block it. Despite the majority of the county being happy with this relocation to a new building. BTW Wootton infrastructure failed again this week with a water main break, kids were sent home. Hard to achieve that "academic excellence" when they keep cancelling instruction days...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the person who asked on the previous page what is going on--what decision has been made and why people are upset. I am trying to piece it together from your answers, but am struggling. It sounds like wootton is a long-existing high school that is in serious disrepair. The community there asked for help. The county put off repairing it, and now, in the recent boundary study, decided to close that school building entirely and send the kids who would have gone there to an existing school in Gaithersburg. Is that correct?

You have the essential facts there. I think the deep feelings protesting the removal of Wootton to Crown HS speaks to the organic community attachment we have for our neighborhood schools. We see this in Silver Spring, with the likely closure of SSIMS and the likely moving of Sligo Creek ES. People don't want holding schools in their neighborhoods, they want their local community to have use of the schools.

I really can't blame anyone for feeling this way.