Wootton Announces They Have Formally Retained Silverman & Thompson

[Anonymous]

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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...

The water main break fyi is due to new construction in the neighborhood, had nothing to do with Wootton.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That’s precisely it. MCPS is doing very shady things with SSIMS. They didn’t succeed in closing SSIMS so now they are going the de facto closure route. Through the boundary study, they have artificially made SSIMS severely under utilized. During the next es/ms study, they will then use that underutilization and building condition (both of which issues they intentionally created themselves) to justify closing SSIMS.

Even if you have no dog in the Wootton fight, this should be a warning. MCPS will intentionally create problems and conditions to justify their intended goal. The ends always justify the means with them.

SSIMS families see this happening right in front of their eyes. A lot more other folks will be blindsided during es/ms closure. By the time they realize, it’ll be too late.

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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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That’s precisely it. MCPS is doing very shady things with SSIMS. They didn’t succeed in closing SSIMS so now they are going the de facto closure route. Through the boundary study, they have artificially made SSIMS severely under utilized. During the next es/ms study, they will then use that underutilization and building condition (both of which issues they intentionally created themselves) to justify closing SSIMS.

Even if you have no dog in the Wootton fight, this should be a warning. MCPS will intentionally create problems and conditions to justify their intended goal. The ends always justify the means with them.

SSIMS families see this happening right in front of their eyes. A lot more other folks will be blindsided during es/ms closure. By the time they realize, it’ll be too late.

Not just Silver Spring schools. When Option H passed, the resolution also had a lengthy list of elementary school reassignment changes. IMHO, that really speaks to how wrong this whole process is. For a stated high/middle school boundary, to then arbitrarily and unilaterally change elementary assignments... just Wow. And I suspect many of those ES communities don't even know their school was affected. But BOE justifies it as, well we're doing an ES boundary study next, so there will be plenty of time for community engagement. Except that they only cherry pick what they want to hear and then label anyone opposed as racist.

Watch out.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That’s precisely it. MCPS is doing very shady things with SSIMS. They didn’t succeed in closing SSIMS so now they are going the de facto closure route. Through the boundary study, they have artificially made SSIMS severely under utilized. During the next es/ms study, they will then use that underutilization and building condition (both of which issues they intentionally created themselves) to justify closing SSIMS.

Even if you have no dog in the Wootton fight, this should be a warning. MCPS will intentionally create problems and conditions to justify their intended goal. The ends always justify the means with them.

SSIMS families see this happening right in front of their eyes. A lot more other folks will be blindsided during es/ms closure. By the time they realize, it’ll be too late.

Not just Silver Spring schools. When Option H passed, the resolution also had a lengthy list of elementary school reassignment changes. IMHO, that really speaks to how wrong this whole process is. For a stated high/middle school boundary, to then arbitrarily and unilaterally change elementary assignments... just Wow. And I suspect many of those ES communities don't even know their school was affected. But BOE justifies it as, well we're doing an ES boundary study next, so there will be plenty of time for community engagement. Except that they only cherry pick what they want to hear and then label anyone opposed as racist.

Watch out.

Just look at how hard Taylor worked to hide the location of two bus depots. Neighbors to those two locations still haven’t been notified and the County Council has already approved the funding.

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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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That’s precisely it. MCPS is doing very shady things with SSIMS. They didn’t succeed in closing SSIMS so now they are going the de facto closure route. Through the boundary study, they have artificially made SSIMS severely under utilized. During the next es/ms study, they will then use that underutilization and building condition (both of which issues they intentionally created themselves) to justify closing SSIMS.

Even if you have no dog in the Wootton fight, this should be a warning. MCPS will intentionally create problems and conditions to justify their intended goal. The ends always justify the means with them.

SSIMS families see this happening right in front of their eyes. A lot more other folks will be blindsided during es/ms closure. By the time they realize, it’ll be too late.

Not just Silver Spring schools. When Option H passed, the resolution also had a lengthy list of elementary school reassignment changes. IMHO, that really speaks to how wrong this whole process is. For a stated high/middle school boundary, to then arbitrarily and unilaterally change elementary assignments... just Wow. And I suspect many of those ES communities don't even know their school was affected. But BOE justifies it as, well we're doing an ES boundary study next, so there will be plenty of time for community engagement. Except that they only cherry pick what they want to hear and then label anyone opposed as racist.

Watch out.

Just look at how hard Taylor worked to hide the location of two bus depots. Neighbors to those two locations still haven’t been notified and the County Council has already approved the funding.

+1. This is why I’ve been following. Not in Wootton cluster but very much support the efforts to fight MCPS. I’m in a neighboring cluster and have donated to the legal fund, as have many of my neighbors. You can probably guess which one as I am near certain we will be impacted in the next round due to our HS now being overcapacity. (I’m convinced Wayside is being moved out of Churchill).

The echo chamber of DCUM trolls don’t realize how many supporters outside of Wootton are contributing and watching. Then you count the hundreds of Wootton families contributing. This will be a long drawn out fight.

The above PPs are correct. If you pay attention, you know some crazy things are about to go down during the es/ms study. I personally think it’s going to be even worse.

The trolls who are currently defending MCPS and their bad decisions are doing so because it doesn’t affect them… yet. Let’s see what you think during the next round when it affects you.

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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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

You are drinking mcps kool aid. Would you allow your kid walk up to 60 minutes one way across 6 lane intersections near a highway?

Even if the number of walkers say the same (it doesn’t), Wootton parkway is a much safer walk. Thats why neighborhood schools matter.

[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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

How sad. What school failed you? An entire high school walk zone is being eliminated when Wootton HS closes. That means for the same number of students, MCPS will have to increase the number of buses in operation. Instead of two walk zones, there will only be one.

[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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

How sad. What school failed you? An entire high school walk zone is being eliminated when Wootton HS closes. That means for the same number of students, MCPS will have to increase the number of buses in operation. Instead of two walk zones, there will only be one.

Let me break this down for you:
Today there are zero walkers to Crown.
When this goes into effect there will be many walkers to the Crown location.
Roughly the same number of walkers who currently walk to the Wootton location.

It is not an increase.

[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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

You are drinking mcps kool aid. Would you allow your kid walk up to 60 minutes one way across 6 lane intersections near a highway?

Even if the number of walkers say the same (it doesn’t), Wootton parkway is a much safer walk. Thats why neighborhood schools matter.

You have an incredibly myopic view. I didn't say the exact same students. I said the same number of students.

[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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

You are drinking mcps kool aid. Would you allow your kid walk up to 60 minutes one way across 6 lane intersections near a highway?

Even if the number of walkers say the same (it doesn’t), Wootton parkway is a much safer walk. Thats why neighborhood schools matter.

And also the Crown location IS a neighborhood school. But you might have that same incredibly myopic view of what it means to be a neighborhood. There is a much higher density of people who live in walking distance to Crown than to the current Wootton location.

[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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

You are drinking mcps kool aid. Would you allow your kid walk up to 60 minutes one way across 6 lane intersections near a highway?

Even if the number of walkers say the same (it doesn’t), Wootton parkway is a much safer walk. Thats why neighborhood schools matter.

And also the Crown location IS a neighborhood school. But you might have that same incredibly myopic view of what it means to be a neighborhood. There is a much higher density of people who live in walking distance to Crown than to the current Wootton location.

My brother in Christ you have no idea what you are talking about. Obviously it’s not the same group of walkers, even MCPS isn’t crazy enough to suggest Parkway kids are walkers to Crown. But the number of walkers per MCPS calculation includes kids who would be walking from Hunting Hills, Nolan, and Stonebridge communities. Those kids are going to walk about 45-60 minutes across 6 lanes. That’s why MCPS walker data is a joke.

Of course Crown is a community with walkers, but let’s not pretend Crown HS on net has more walkers. MCPS walker data is actually a great example of how MCPS doesn’t make data driven decisions. Instead, they make a decision and create whatever data needed to justify their decision making.

Like PP above, just watch this play out during the next round.

[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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

How sad. What school failed you? An entire high school walk zone is being eliminated when Wootton HS closes. That means for the same number of students, MCPS will have to increase the number of buses in operation. Instead of two walk zones, there will only be one.

Let me break this down for you:
Today there are zero walkers to Crown.
When this goes into effect there will be many walkers to the Crown location.
Roughly the same number of walkers who currently walk to the Wootton location.

It is not an increase.

Praying you aren’t a MCPS admin troll. Let’s try this:

2 schools with walkers - 1 school with walkers = 1 school with walkers.

MCPS built a new high school. That school would have walkers. Taylor is now eliminating the walkers from another school that was planned to be open and functioning. There would have been two hs with walkers. That was the plan. The budget must now change because Taylor is eliminating an entire hs of walkers. Planners need to buy more buses, hire more drivers.

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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.

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.

This is why planning is so important. You are wrong. Crown was always going to have a walk zone. Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused. That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly.

I am not wrong. The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.

You are drinking mcps kool aid. Would you allow your kid walk up to 60 minutes one way across 6 lane intersections near a highway?

Even if the number of walkers say the same (it doesn’t), Wootton parkway is a much safer walk. Thats why neighborhood schools matter.

And also the Crown location IS a neighborhood school. But you might have that same incredibly myopic view of what it means to be a neighborhood. There is a much higher density of people who live in walking distance to Crown than to the current Wootton location.

My brother in Christ you have no idea what you are talking about. Obviously it’s not the same group of walkers, even MCPS isn’t crazy enough to suggest Parkway kids are walkers to Crown. But the number of walkers per MCPS calculation includes kids who would be walking from Hunting Hills, Nolan, and Stonebridge communities. Those kids are going to walk about 45-60 minutes across 6 lanes. That’s why MCPS walker data is a joke.

Of course Crown is a community with walkers, but let’s not pretend Crown HS on net has more walkers. MCPS walker data is actually a great example of how MCPS doesn’t make data driven decisions. Instead, they make a decision and create whatever data needed to justify their decision making.

Like PP above, just watch this play out during the next round.

I don't get your point at all. I said there will be roughly the same total number of students walking to school at the Crown location than there is at the Parkway location. This is true.

So, the argument that this decision results in a meaningful amount more buses is false.