Crown boundary study Option H
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Anonymous
In every option, including the originals, A through D, RM maintains its existing boundary and is projected to have a 2031-32 population of 1983 with a capacity of 2200. Those 2031-32 projections are catchment-area ("resident students"), so they do not count out-of-catchment magnet students except where noted -- Poolesville collecting an additional 600 and Seneca Valley collecting 500, though how they apportioned the draw (removing those 600 and 500 from other schools) is unclear. Perhaps they used current trends or perhaps they spread it proportionally to the projected resident student population of each school. It doesn't appear that they have differential draw for the new regional magnet paradigm in these projections. |
Anonymous
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more. How do you plan to pay for college and grad school? |
Anonymous
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this. And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children. |
Anonymous
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities. It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.). |
Anonymous
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school |
Anonymous
In other way to look at this , Wootton is on the top 3 list of CIP and is located closest to the new Crown HS, that is why Wootton is more affected compared to the other 2 W school. |
Anonymous
There has to be redistricting with the new schools and they are getting too big to be reasonably managed. |
Anonymous
Do, if you are that stretched, can you comfortably pay for college without debt? Take if up with the people demanding an immediate fix. |
Anonymous
It's not getting affected because it is the poorest W school. It is getting affected because it is the closest school to Crown. |
Anonymous
Incorrect. GHS is closer to Crown. |
Anonymous
Then maybe option A-D then. Damascus doesn’t want to go to crown or Wootton for holding school anyway since the commute is insane. Let both schools open. |
Anonymous
That great. Dri6ve by RM today and could not believe the number of portables! |
Anonymous
Correct...as the crow flies and from facility to facility. As the car drives, it may be, depending on traffic, but by a hair, at best. Moreover, the Gaithersburg catchment is, by and large and on average, farther from Crown than the Wootton catchment -- considerably so when considering bus transport and realizing the I-270 divide -- and the immediate Gaithersburg-zoned neighborhood would be zoned to Wootton at Crown in option H. Most importantly, Gaithersburg is not in a physical condition that would see them consider closing it in favor of relocation to the new facility, as is Wootton. |
Anonymous
The issue noted does not concern one school, alone. Look at the maps to see whether the impacts are disproportionately low among wealthy areas (and disproportionately large among less wealthy areas). The map tools for each study, where one can turn off all layers but the existing HS zones and any one option's HS zones, rotating through the options, show this. In addition to the generally lower disruption, they particularly show that, when there are such areas affected, they most often shift among the wealthier/higher performing schools rather than between those and the less wealthy areas. This may be more obvious with the Woodward/Northwood study. |
Anonymous
Look where the BOE, county council and other elected officials live. Look at the biggest school donors. It’s sad that there are such disparities and in theory this was to fix it and will create bigger divide and with the staffing reductions hurt some schools even more. |