Give Taylor's CIP recommendations a chance

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

And that’s the reason for closing it, moving the boundaries, adding 700 new students from other high schools, and changing the name to Wootton @ Crown (instead of Thomas Wootton High School)? If Wootton is the worst in the county, why wasn’t it repaired last year, or the year before that? Why was it pulled off the CIP three different times? MCPS hasn’t answered any of these questions, and doesn’t want to answer them.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

And that’s the reason for closing it, moving the boundaries, adding 700 new students from other high schools, and changing the name to Wootton @ Crown (instead of Thomas Wootton High School)? If Wootton is the worst in the county, why wasn’t it repaired last year, or the year before that? Why was it pulled off the CIP three different times? MCPS hasn’t answered any of these questions, and doesn’t want to answer them.

Add students to an underutilized school? The horror!

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

They haven't surveyed all the schools yet so we'll see when all the survey's are done. However, it does have a lot of serious issues going on.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

Anyone who really looks into Wootton outside of test scores is going to be concerned about the violence at the school, especially since they have the first school shooting inside the school. Instead of worrying about this, you have bigger things to worry about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

Anyone who really looks into Wootton outside of test scores is going to be concerned about the violence at the school, especially since they have the first school shooting inside the school. Instead of worrying about this, you have bigger things to worry about.

No. Magruder was the first MCPS school to have a shooting happen inside the school. Wootton is the second.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

Anyone who really looks into Wootton outside of test scores is going to be concerned about the violence at the school, especially since they have the first school shooting inside the school. Instead of worrying about this, you have bigger things to worry about.

No. Magruder was the first MCPS school to have a shooting happen inside the school. Wootton is the second.

Sure, but Magruder is mostly Hispanic kids. That doesn't count.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

Anyone who really looks into Wootton outside of test scores is going to be concerned about the violence at the school, especially since they have the first school shooting inside the school. Instead of worrying about this, you have bigger things to worry about.

I guess you can’t read text inside parentheticals. A single incident caused by a kid with an ankle bracelet that was transferred in by MCPS late during the 2nd quarter that just ended. Why don’t you post actual statisto support your argument?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

And that’s the reason for closing it, moving the boundaries, adding 700 new students from other high schools, and changing the name to Wootton @ Crown (instead of Thomas Wootton High School)? If Wootton is the worst in the county, why wasn’t it repaired last year, or the year before that? Why was it pulled off the CIP three different times? MCPS hasn’t answered any of these questions, and doesn’t want to answer them.

Add students to an underutilized school? The horror!

It’s not Wootton if you’ve changed the boundaries and are adding 30%+ more kids from other schools. Tell me again when another MCPS school was closed, moved, had a boundary change, and 30%+ kids added all at the same time?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no money for all this. I'm sorry. The money doesn't just appear out of thin air.

There is money, but it just needs to be reprioritized. Dr. Taylor could also borrow a page from the private sector and really focus on measurable ROI. The problem with MCPS, like any school entity, is that it ultimately answers to the voters through the BOE. Politics and cronyism outweigh ROI every time. Sweetheart government contracts, political favors, competing interests, etc…. That said, Dr. Taylor has his own political agenda, which complicates matters even further.

Taylor’s “agenda” seems to be to apply fairness across MCPS and not let the “richer” tax base get all their pet projects while ignoring the rest of us.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree, OP. He is trying and we should give it a chance. MCPS employee and MCPS parent here.

Taylor stomping through all the alfalfa fields here. His bludgeoning approach should not be ...given a chance...superintendents have too much power in Maryland. I would like to change the system.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

They haven't surveyed all the schools yet so we'll see when all the survey's are done. However, it does have a lot of serious issues going on.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

Actually, per the actual data, Magruder is the high school in the worst shape in the county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

Actually, per the actual data, Magruder is the high school in the worst shape in the county.

For the data they are using. Not all issues included.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is unsafe for multiple reasons. Sounds like its a good move to shut it down.

Some parents exaggerated. If it was so unsafe (beyond the current news cycle) it would have been closed already. Closing it down and moving kids to Crown only saves MCPS from the embarrassment of building a school based on pre COVID enrollment projections and having to use it as a holding school. The Gaithersburg mayor said the quiet part out loud when he opposed using Crown as a holding school. That won’t attract high income earners to his city, so naturally he wants to transplant the Wootton kids.

There are multiple issues and I doubt parents are exaggerating as many of the schools have serous issues. However, who would send their kids to Wootton after all the problems?

So if many schools have the same issues (or are worse off) why aren’t those schools closed or being moved? Wootton parents are oissed at not getting a renovation many years at their current site. Wootton shouldn’t have to be closed, have its boundaries changed, and be moved to a new city in order to eventually get a new building.

This is all to cover for MCPS’ screw up and its desire not to use a shiny new building as a holding school.

Wootton is the high school in the worst shape in the entire county, per the actual data

And that’s the reason for closing it, moving the boundaries, adding 700 new students from other high schools, and changing the name to Wootton @ Crown (instead of Thomas Wootton High School)? If Wootton is the worst in the county, why wasn’t it repaired last year, or the year before that? Why was it pulled off the CIP three different times? MCPS hasn’t answered any of these questions, and doesn’t want to answer them.

Add students to an underutilized school? The horror!

It’s not Wootton if you’ve changed the boundaries and are adding 30%+ more kids from other schools. Tell me again when another MCPS school was closed, moved, had a boundary change, and 30%+ kids added all at the same time?

Northwood closed, Woodward closed, Leland MS closed (now a community center) and other ES's. I'm sure I'm missing a few.