Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever happens, can we all agree not to propose any options that will split a middle school to 4 high schools? That's just evil.

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Anonymous wrote:Suddenly, I feel like QO high school is shining great among all 4 options. It is within walking distance, no busing and kids stay together from ES/MS.

Great as long as you are not in Kentlands.

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Busing the Kentlands to Gaithersburg or Crown is just absurd. Not that I’m not enjoying the maga there whose tiny racist brain cells are exploding about these new boundaries but because they are fiscally irresponsible of the county and stupid. Kentlands walks to QO there is no reality sending them to the other HS makes sense logistically or fiscally.

As for Dufief yes

As for Stonemill out of W again no because W is already under enrolled. And the mapping logic makes no sense either.

They will do the worst possible senerio people get ready for major bussing.

You realize parts of dufief, stone mill and Travilah of basically equidistant to Wootton? And Dufief has maybe 35 kids per grade TOTAL. Dufief is part of the Wootton community, has been since forever. They don’t want to move schools. Moving them doesn’t help anything. Wootton is under enrolled, as you said. Just leave dufief alone.

How about just leaving Wootton alone. Why does MCPS create 4 options just to generate fights between different ES within Wootton? That’s pure evil and community dividing. Crown is built to alleviate overcrowding of other schools and Wootton is not overcrowded. None of the four options change diversity of any school so just leave Wootton alone. Don’t make the poorer neighborhoods in Wootton to pay the price just to satisfy this diversity game.

I am PP of above- yes, totally agree. Leave Wootton alone. But they won’t.

Everyone supporting leaving Wootton alone, I stand with you as I went to CJMS/WCHS but had so many friends go to Wootton.

Anyway as a resident of Wayside now who is across the street from the proposed border, I want to stay at WCHS.

Wootton folks, if you can sign this petition it can’t hurt your case the less likely they are to shift Churchill to Wootton the less likely they are to shift schools from Wootton to elsewhere.

https://chng.it/SNLndcftLR

I will not be signing that. You guys are nothing but a bunch of Karens. You talk about your “community” as if you’re an indigenous tribe or something. Your kids will be fine and will attend a less crowded school, which directly helps all the concerns listed on the petition.

DP. I'm so confused by this sentence: "Churchill’s current overcapacity is minor and, according to MCPS’s own projections, will resolve naturally in the coming years." That's just false. MCPS's own projections show Churchill ending up at 117%, 335 students over capacity.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XFy9zZzp1muWHlUraVzOkRRL_ZGPLSWq/view

According to most kids at Churchill the school isn’t crowded. They have four portables because they have so many special ed students and programs with kids bussed into Churchill.

The projection data linked makes no sense, it shows that after removing Wayside which has a total population of around 450 or 60-75 per grade that the Churchill enrollment will drop by 479 in 27-28 and 472 in 30-31. That doesn’t math when the removed school’s population in total is that much! That’s what they are saying with and without the change the impact would be which is impossible.

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Anonymous wrote:What's going on with Lakewood ES in option 4?

First, it gets divided into two middle schools, Frost and Hoover, which seems pretty wild since Lakewood is right by Frost. Hoover appears to be a significantly longer distance for most of the kids being moved there.

Second, it gets divided into two high schools, Wootton and Crown, which also seems pretty wild since Lakewood is also right by Wootton. And it appears the kids being moved would have a similar or longer drive to Crown compared to Wootton.

And the Lakewood group that gets sent to Hoover for middle is not the same as the Lakewood group that gets sent to Crown for high school, so there are basically two different pieces of Lakewood being broken off at two different points of time. That seems less than ideal.

Shouldn't Lakewood be straightforward - Frost then Wootton? The schools are all right next to each other and don't have overcrowding issues.

Yes these clowns have no idea what they are doing. I haven’t even looked much at the northeast side of the study but can only imagine it’s a clusterf*ck there as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving Wayside out of Churchill helps with utilization. How else will they get Churchill below 100%?

It’s a BS utilization at Churchill. They’ve reduced capacity by 100 seats from when it first opened. What happened did the school shrink? Churchill has just had a period of a few years with higher enrollment which was consistently in lower figures and never had a portable until a year or two I believe. Kids there have stated it’s not crowded aside from the portable there’s no evidence to that.

Churchill parent here. There's no problem with Churchill being overcapacity. Yes, there are a couple of portables and I'm sure those teachers aren't excited about them. But I've never felt Churchill had too many kids generally. It's not hurting education or the social environment. And there's not much new construction in this area, so I wouldn't expect the problem to become worse in the next decade.

I have always wondered, though, why there are kids sooo far west that come to Churchill. Those are largely Wayside kids, and some Potomac kids. So yes, to drive from Wayside ES to Wootton HS, it may be about the same distance as going to from Wayside ES to Churchill HS. But a huge part of that geography is far closer to Wootton than to Churchill. Same with the Northern part of the Potomac ES boundaries. The culprit is that they're not looking at ES boundaries. I'd be interested in knowing the *average* student's bus time to both high schools-- there is certainly some house that is closer to Churchill and some house that is closer to Wootton. In sum, I think, capacity-wise, it would be fine for Wayside to continue to go to Churchill. But I think the quality of life for the average Wayside kid might improve by going to the closer school.

Wayside families definitely closer to Churchill for the most part. For us, it is 3 miles more to Wootton than to Churchill and an additional 10 minutes (give or take) round trip. Not horrible but doesn't make sense.

The Wayside families that should never been zoned to Wayside in the first place are in the Potomac Glen area. There are three other elementary schools closer to that neighborhood, namely Lakewood, Stone Mill, and Travilah. Why they were ever zoned for Wayside/Churchill is bizarre, but from what I understand the contractor that built that development had some connections with Montgomery County politicians who made it happen. That is the only area that should be rezoned to Wootton and to the appropriate elementary school. The rest of Wayside belongs at Churchill.

But they're not changing ES boundaries. And ES split articulation to different middle schools sounds terrible. And you're citing a 5 minute increase (one way) for part of the school zone to go to Wootton where another part of the school zone would probably save 2 or 3 times that by going to Wootton. And MCPS is trying to put together a big jigsaw puzzle in which not every household will benefit, but the overall system is better. So all in all, adding 5 minuts to a commute for some people isn't going to be a deal-changer in the overall puzzle.

Based on what you said, if we could invent a time machine, people here might push for the school zone to have been created differently 20 years ago. And it sounds like there are a lot of people here who would favor looking at ES boundaries but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. So this is where we are.

Why is ES split articulation so bad? As someone who went to a MS and then split that wasn’t ideal, but at least I gained about 60-70 peers in MS to join my ES cohort to HS. However we were def lopsided as my MS was like 120 strong out of 450-500 total 9th grade.

I feel like if say an ES consists of on average 70 kids per graduating class, if about 30-40 were split to two different middle schools, that’s not the end of the world. At that age ALL of the kids in a MS are coming together from small cohorts. So a MS class of 300-400 could consist of 4-6 groups of 30-100 kids. So the 30-40 split could be very similar to another 40-50 from ES #2 and another 60-70 from ES #3 and another 100 from ES #4 for example.

If those kids do NOT split again for HS that gives 7 years together grades 6-12 which is a year more than time together in ES and often times kids are closest with those from those later years.

Worse would be a tiny split (less than 25 kids for example) from an ES to MS, even worse would be then splitting both ES to MS and MS to HS. Worst of all would be going together to MS but then a subset of an ES splitting as a tiny portion of a MS to HS. For example 100 ES kids go to MS with a total of 400 kids. If 50 of those ES kids by themselves go to HS while the other 350 go to HS thats awful. Peer groups are super formed by HS though def changed for me and others.

It might depend on personalities.

I saw a lot of military families and how moving around affected their kids.

That combined with my own childhood, having my kids try to stay in one location and their group of friends was a big deal to me.

This is one of the reasons why I decided not to consider any areas with schools that had students articulate to different schools. And also a big reason why I chose not to move my family, where frankly the area where I work now is better than Montgomery County. But my kids and family are already pretty settled into the area, so I don't want to uproot them and I deal with the commute.

I have one kid, where although they'd probably be pretty disappointed in being separated from their friends, would probably do okay in a group of new faces. Where they usually don't have issues making new friends.

But my other kid is less social. In our own neighborhood they have maybe one or two friends. Then the few other friends they have are in another neighborhood that goes to the same elementary school. They didn't pick up any new friends from the other elementary schools that fed into the same middle schools, although they knew some them beforehand. But some of the current proposals have our neighborhood go to a different high school, while the rest of the neighborhoods that go to the same elementary school go to another high school. So this leaves them with the one or two friends from the neighborhood for high school.

I wish my kid wasn't like that but that's just the way they are.

School is kind of hard if you don't have a group to fall into. Especially at the middle school and high school levels. And one particular military family I have in mind had to pull their kid out of their school due to severe bullying. Where they were probably an easy target being by themselves. ie eating lunch by themself, always to the side just reading a book, etc.

This is why I am big supporter of keeping students from the same elementary school together. Or if they do split articulate, make it a good portion of the students, like 50/50, 40/60, etc. Their proposals now would have only a handful of students articulate to a different school.

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Anonymous wrote:Suddenly, I feel like QO high school is shining great among all 4 options. It is within walking distance, no busing and kids stay together from ES/MS.

Great as long as you are not in Kentlands.

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Busing the Kentlands to Gaithersburg or Crown is just absurd. Not that I’m not enjoying the maga there whose tiny racist brain cells are exploding about these new boundaries but because they are fiscally irresponsible of the county and stupid. Kentlands walks to QO there is no reality sending them to the other HS makes sense logistically or fiscally.

As for Dufief yes

As for Stonemill out of W again no because W is already under enrolled. And the mapping logic makes no sense either.

They will do the worst possible senerio people get ready for major bussing.

You realize parts of dufief, stone mill and Travilah of basically equidistant to Wootton? And Dufief has maybe 35 kids per grade TOTAL. Dufief is part of the Wootton community, has been since forever. They don’t want to move schools. Moving them doesn’t help anything. Wootton is under enrolled, as you said. Just leave dufief alone.

How about just leaving Wootton alone. Why does MCPS create 4 options just to generate fights between different ES within Wootton? That’s pure evil and community dividing. Crown is built to alleviate overcrowding of other schools and Wootton is not overcrowded. None of the four options change diversity of any school so just leave Wootton alone. Don’t make the poorer neighborhoods in Wootton to pay the price just to satisfy this diversity game.

I am PP of above- yes, totally agree. Leave Wootton alone. But they won’t.

Everyone supporting leaving Wootton alone, I stand with you as I went to CJMS/WCHS but had so many friends go to Wootton.

Anyway as a resident of Wayside now who is across the street from the proposed border, I want to stay at WCHS.

Wootton folks, if you can sign this petition it can’t hurt your case the less likely they are to shift Churchill to Wootton the less likely they are to shift schools from Wootton to elsewhere.

https://chng.it/SNLndcftLR

I will not be signing that. You guys are nothing but a bunch of Karens. You talk about your “community” as if you’re an indigenous tribe or something. Your kids will be fine and will attend a less crowded school, which directly helps all the concerns listed on the petition.

Joke's on you because Karen Drive remains zoned for Churchill in all four options.

😂 as someone who grew up nearby I totally forgot about that even though I pass that street everyday being in the Wayside district.

I feel sorry for genuinely nice people who were named Karen.

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Anonymous wrote:The families crying because their kids have to go to Wootton instead of Churchill are so shameful. Please get over it. I hope MCPS doesn’t give a damn and passes that proposal.

Where are you supposed to go? How would you want your kids going to a 55 year old school with asbestos and mold?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope MCPS redistricts Wayside to Wootton. Those parents are the biggest crybabies on earth and nobody else in the Churchill cluster will care if they are not in the "community" anymore. Churchill is overcrowded and some of you need to leave. Enough with the bs excuses about mental health and IEP plans. I hope MCPS doesn't fall for their bs, and many of us will testify against them. We need to start a petition against theirs called "DONT OVERCROWD CHURCHILL."

Where do you go?

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Anonymous wrote:Suddenly, I feel like QO high school is shining great among all 4 options. It is within walking distance, no busing and kids stay together from ES/MS.

Great as long as you are not in Kentlands.

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Busing the Kentlands to Gaithersburg or Crown is just absurd. Not that I’m not enjoying the maga there whose tiny racist brain cells are exploding about these new boundaries but because they are fiscally irresponsible of the county and stupid. Kentlands walks to QO there is no reality sending them to the other HS makes sense logistically or fiscally.

As for Dufief yes

As for Stonemill out of W again no because W is already under enrolled. And the mapping logic makes no sense either.

They will do the worst possible senerio people get ready for major bussing.

You realize parts of dufief, stone mill and Travilah of basically equidistant to Wootton? And Dufief has maybe 35 kids per grade TOTAL. Dufief is part of the Wootton community, has been since forever. They don’t want to move schools. Moving them doesn’t help anything. Wootton is under enrolled, as you said. Just leave dufief alone.

How about just leaving Wootton alone. Why does MCPS create 4 options just to generate fights between different ES within Wootton? That’s pure evil and community dividing. Crown is built to alleviate overcrowding of other schools and Wootton is not overcrowded. None of the four options change diversity of any school so just leave Wootton alone. Don’t make the poorer neighborhoods in Wootton to pay the price just to satisfy this diversity game.

I am PP of above- yes, totally agree. Leave Wootton alone. But they won’t.

Everyone supporting leaving Wootton alone, I stand with you as I went to CJMS/WCHS but had so many friends go to Wootton.

Anyway as a resident of Wayside now who is across the street from the proposed border, I want to stay at WCHS.

Wootton folks, if you can sign this petition it can’t hurt your case the less likely they are to shift Churchill to Wootton the less likely they are to shift schools from Wootton to elsewhere.

https://chng.it/SNLndcftLR

I will not be signing that. You guys are nothing but a bunch of Karens. You talk about your “community” as if you’re an indigenous tribe or something. Your kids will be fine and will attend a less crowded school, which directly helps all the concerns listed on the petition.

DP. I'm so confused by this sentence: "Churchill’s current overcapacity is minor and, according to MCPS’s own projections, will resolve naturally in the coming years." That's just false. MCPS's own projections show Churchill ending up at 117%, 335 students over capacity.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XFy9zZzp1muWHlUraVzOkRRL_ZGPLSWq/view

According to most kids at Churchill the school isn’t crowded. They have four portables because they have so many special ed students and programs with kids bussed into Churchill.

The projection data linked makes no sense, it shows that after removing Wayside which has a total population of around 450 or 60-75 per grade that the Churchill enrollment will drop by 479 in 27-28 and 472 in 30-31. That doesn’t math when the removed school’s population in total is that much! That’s what they are saying with and without the change the impact would be which is impossible.

According to the kids lol

Special ed kids are part of the school population

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Anonymous wrote:The families crying because their kids have to go to Wootton instead of Churchill are so shameful. Please get over it. I hope MCPS doesn’t give a damn and passes that proposal.

Where are you supposed to go? How would you want your kids going to a 55 year old school with asbestos and mold?

Oh please that is not why you don’t want Wootton
Wayside is the wannabes of Churchill

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Anonymous wrote:I hope MCPS redistricts Wayside to Wootton. Those parents are the biggest crybabies on earth and nobody else in the Churchill cluster will care if they are not in the "community" anymore. Churchill is overcrowded and some of you need to leave. Enough with the bs excuses about mental health and IEP plans. I hope MCPS doesn't fall for their bs, and many of us will testify against them. We need to start a petition against theirs called "DONT OVERCROWD CHURCHILL."

There is absolutely no new building going on in Potomac to affect Churchill. If the district was stricter on COSA you wouldn’t even be overcrowded. And even now, it is slight.

All other school districts have a lot of new residences and more overcrowding to deal with.

I have no fight in this. My kids go to Rockville. But Ritchie Park is 7min to Wootton. Half of Ritchie Park would be walkers. Wayside is 15min (without morning traffic) and there would be zero walkers.

It makes no sense to pull all of Wayside. They pass 3 other ES that go to Churchill or RM on the way to Wootton. If anything, it makes much more sense to pull the closest neighborhoods of both of those schools.

This needs to be a long term plan and not re-arranging and split articulations. It really isn’t that hard, but MCPS worries so much on SES and diversity that the map looks absolutely ridiculous. And the fact that Magruder or Rockville weren’t even considered in all of this means they truly don’t care about SES and diversity anyway. So at least make these boundaries clean and walkable

Thank you for your support. Agreed on all accounts. Especially not including Rockville and Magruder.

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There is a huge development going in on Key west. Tons of kids in those town houses they are not accounted for.

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Anonymous wrote:My Next Door is blowing up with Waysiders building a coalition.

Good

LOL

It will not matter

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Anonymous wrote:I just hope they don't redistrict QO with any striver schools. Purposely avoided buying in Wootton and Walter Johnson because of all the tiger moms and academic culture. Football, D1 sports, and parents who like to hang out at the beach and tanning salons for fun is the vibe. I think everyone chose their school and neighborhood because it matched their vibe, and they should be allowed to say.

While I agree that we bought where we did because of these factors and don't want to change that, if it ultimately MAKES SENSE to change, then it needs to. The problem is that these options operate under the improper constraint that ES boundaries cannot change.

Yes and as a result this process is like trying to solve one of those puzzles where when you put a piece in another pops out elsewhere. Some ES are wacky and large. In Wootton, Churchill, RM alone the following elementary schools should be redrawn. These are all significantly under capacity.

- Potomac
- Wayside
- Coldspring
- Beverly Farms
- Seven Locks (weird Avenel island)
- Travilah

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Anonymous wrote:Moving Wayside out of Churchill helps with utilization. How else will they get Churchill below 100%?

It’s a BS utilization at Churchill. They’ve reduced capacity by 100 seats from when it first opened. What happened did the school shrink? Churchill has just had a period of a few years with higher enrollment which was consistently in lower figures and never had a portable until a year or two I believe. Kids there have stated it’s not crowded aside from the portable there’s no evidence to that.

Churchill parent here. There's no problem with Churchill being overcapacity. Yes, there are a couple of portables and I'm sure those teachers aren't excited about them. But I've never felt Churchill had too many kids generally. It's not hurting education or the social environment. And there's not much new construction in this area, so I wouldn't expect the problem to become worse in the next decade.

I have always wondered, though, why there are kids sooo far west that come to Churchill. Those are largely Wayside kids, and some Potomac kids. So yes, to drive from Wayside ES to Wootton HS, it may be about the same distance as going to from Wayside ES to Churchill HS. But a huge part of that geography is far closer to Wootton than to Churchill. Same with the Northern part of the Potomac ES boundaries. The culprit is that they're not looking at ES boundaries. I'd be interested in knowing the *average* student's bus time to both high schools-- there is certainly some house that is closer to Churchill and some house that is closer to Wootton. In sum, I think, capacity-wise, it would be fine for Wayside to continue to go to Churchill. But I think the quality of life for the average Wayside kid might improve by going to the closer school.

Wayside families definitely closer to Churchill for the most part. For us, it is 3 miles more to Wootton than to Churchill and an additional 10 minutes (give or take) round trip. Not horrible but doesn't make sense.

The Wayside families that should never been zoned to Wayside in the first place are in the Potomac Glen area. There are three other elementary schools closer to that neighborhood, namely Lakewood, Stone Mill, and Travilah. Why they were ever zoned for Wayside/Churchill is bizarre, but from what I understand the contractor that built that development had some connections with Montgomery County politicians who made it happen. That is the only area that should be rezoned to Wootton and to the appropriate elementary school. The rest of Wayside belongs at Churchill.

But they're not changing ES boundaries. And ES split articulation to different middle schools sounds terrible. And you're citing a 5 minute increase (one way) for part of the school zone to go to Wootton where another part of the school zone would probably save 2 or 3 times that by going to Wootton. And MCPS is trying to put together a big jigsaw puzzle in which not every household will benefit, but the overall system is better. So all in all, adding 5 minuts to a commute for some people isn't going to be a deal-changer in the overall puzzle.

Based on what you said, if we could invent a time machine, people here might push for the school zone to have been created differently 20 years ago. And it sounds like there are a lot of people here who would favor looking at ES boundaries but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. So this is where we are.

Why is ES split articulation so bad? As someone who went to a MS and then split that wasn’t ideal, but at least I gained about 60-70 peers in MS to join my ES cohort to HS. However we were def lopsided as my MS was like 120 strong out of 450-500 total 9th grade.

I feel like if say an ES consists of on average 70 kids per graduating class, if about 30-40 were split to two different middle schools, that’s not the end of the world. At that age ALL of the kids in a MS are coming together from small cohorts. So a MS class of 300-400 could consist of 4-6 groups of 30-100 kids. So the 30-40 split could be very similar to another 40-50 from ES #2 and another 60-70 from ES #3 and another 100 from ES #4 for example.

If those kids do NOT split again for HS that gives 7 years together grades 6-12 which is a year more than time together in ES and often times kids are closest with those from those later years.

Worse would be a tiny split (less than 25 kids for example) from an ES to MS, even worse would be then splitting both ES to MS and MS to HS. Worst of all would be going together to MS but then a subset of an ES splitting as a tiny portion of a MS to HS. For example 100 ES kids go to MS with a total of 400 kids. If 50 of those ES kids by themselves go to HS while the other 350 go to HS thats awful. Peer groups are super formed by HS though def changed for me and others.

Please read the comment where option 2 takes 30 kids from RPES and puts them together with 300 more at CJMS and then removes them from the ENTIRE SET OF THOSE 300 only to join with 470 new students at RMHS. These kids would have to lose half their freinds when they go to middle school and then 90% of those friends again when they go to high school, only go to to a school where the other kids know 94% of each other and have been together for 9 years!

PP here, yes that’s insane! One split with more kids wouldn’t be awful but the subsequent split to HS is nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:Travilah and dufief should go to QO and Kentlands should go to Crown with all the other City of Gaithersburg schools.

That is very logical. North Potomac, Travilah, and Darnestown go to Ridgeview / QO. The City of Gaithersburg schools go to Lakelands / Crown. Falls Grove and Ritchie Park to Wooton.

I have said this for a long time, before any boundary discussion. It is the most elegant contiguous solution. Of course people have their preferences based on past experience but none of that matters in these discussions. Now Kentlands leaving is a new topic of course with Crown, but agree with City boundaries being logical here, and having enough students to fill Crown in one swath.

Yup. Same reason why Fallsgrove and Ritchie Park should go to Wootton and all of King Farm to RM.

RM parent here and I would totally support that. Lets be real, "unofficially" most of King Farm goes to RM, even the Gaithersburg HS part. So tired of RPES parents whining about Wootton. I get it, you want to go to W school and not RM.

Nah. I'm in the RPES cluster, and a lot of parents here would rather stay at RM than go to Wootton. I'm the PP who has stated repeatedly that MCPS is not going to move RPES to Wootton. And I'm fine with that.

RM Main Street is really nice. They did a great job. Kids love having open lunch. My kids enjoy/ed their time at RM. Many years ago when we moved here, we looked at homes from N. Potomac down to Kensington (I think we looked at over 40 homes). We could afford homes in Potomac. We chose the RM cluster for a reason.

Wootton is also falling apart (shame on MCPS).

I am the PP you are responding to. We were in the same boat. Chose RM over W/Potomac schools and I am actually happy we did.

Ok simmer down lol. If RM didn’t have the IB program it would be a trash. It brought in RPES to make it better and home equity is 70-100K less in many SFH neighborhoods. So then added IB. Then they added Fallsgrove. But the school can’t hide its core issues

Why don’t you simmer down? Wootton is the most irrelevant W school that everyone forgets exists. Parents from Churchill are revolting against their kids attending Wootton. It has an ugly building, is located in a terrible town/zip-code, and is all the way out in the middle of nowhere. If the plastics were W schools, Wootton would Gretchen Wieners. Wootton is truly the worst. Too poor/low income to be a real W and exists in the shadows of Whitman and Churchill, and too rich to be interesting enough to have scandalous incidents and fights.

Oh BS


Their kids go to the a university of South Carolina nit Ivies .
No the wannabes are the Wayside parents they cozy up to the real Churchill money. Most are in debt up to their eyeballs. They won’t be able to afford top privates so they are whining.

They don’t give a crap about the building this is image for them. They have no other way to get their brats into country clubs

People are being ridiculous here .

Non of these plans are good because they did not redraw all the lines from elementary up.
The logistics to make equality would fix themselves if the powers at be could read a map.

Magnet Schools were supposed to fix the white flight racism with their advertisements of gifted programs.

School choice will be a thing if MAzgA and moms4 liberty have their way that will be way worse than anything proposed here .

Bottom line is none of the options are good for any student all the maps need to be redrawn from elementary to HS . Walkers should be able to walk to the closest school period .

There is a ton of new building going on these schools will be over crowded ie Crown especially with the new builds off of key west.