Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
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Anonymous
Exactly. Crown is a school that doesn’t need to be built. There are only 400-500 surplus for QO, RM and Gaithersburg. There are not enough students to support a brand new high school. MCPS fabricated data to build crown and ignored decade long requests to renovate Wootton. Wootton is really the victim here because of the political agenda behind MCPS and BOE. |
Anonymous
See the many DCUM threads where we have debunked this frequent poster. RM has some high poverty areas attending, but is largely an UMC school with a high level of achievement outside the IB program. |
Anonymous
+1 How is Wootton getting bypassed when it has asbestos and falling apart but they a brand new HS and not using it as a holding school like the other one. Makes no sense. |
Anonymous
Because they added RPES out of Wootton and added Fallsgrove when it was built. Before that it was awful. Someone posted a Washington Post news article explaining how bad RM was. They did a lot of restructuring and added IB. But the same other ES still go there. A lot of poverty |
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To Stone Mill and Wayside families, Please help us by signing this petition to oppose the current school reassignment plans. Right now, the options either move Stone Mill out of Wootton or break our articulation path. Many of us have worked hard to move into this community so our kids can get the best education possible. Being reassigned to Crown means losing much of what we moved here for. Wayside families—we need your support too. If Stone Mill stays in Wootton, there’s a better chance that Wayside can stay in Churchill. |
Anonymous
Is this a joke? Wootton is so cheap. Your cluster consists of nothing but a bunch of NV homes. Wootton neighborhood is just Bowie with no Black people and a pool in the backyard. Most people in RM could sell their house and move to Wootton or even Whitman tomorrow. Homes near the town center are much more expensive than anything Wootton has. You’re the only W cluster where the median home price is below $1M. Wootton is a fake and wannabe W. Now go back to your dilapidated strip malls on a road that looks like Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie and your dusty, old high school. |
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Wootton is under capacity and the reason to build crown is because RM QO Gaithersburg are overcrowded. Guess what? they are not that overcrowded and can’t fill a brand new high school. Now Wootton is the victim for this political exercise. 💯 could have used the $250M or whatever to redo Wootton or do an addition to 5-10 schools or a combo of that plus rebuild some old ES. Keeps taxpayers happy and solves any overcrowding problems. Adding more new schools is an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars given the high schools are mostly 1750-2250 in size. You obviously do not have kids at any of the above overcrowded schools - and they are VERY overcrowded! QO has 2100 students in a facility built for 1,700 and they add more portables every year. It's awful for the kids, the teachers, the staff. After reading ridiculous remarks like this, I'm glad Wootton is being targeted. |
Anonymous
No, RM also has half of King Farm, College Gardens, Woodley Gardens and Derwood, mostly highly educated parents working fed jobs, etc. There are pockets of poverty in all of the newer developments like KF and FG, because of HOC and MDPU set asides that are converted to HOC, but that is what all of you voted for. |
Anonymous
There are new builds everywhere. There's a huge one near King Farm on the old Buick car lot on 355 near Shady Grove. Those two build areas will be zoned for the HSs impacted by this boundary change. |
Anonymous
💯 could have used the $250M or whatever to redo Wootton or do an addition to 5-10 schools or a combo of that plus rebuild some old ES. Keeps taxpayers happy and solves any overcrowding problems. Adding more new schools is an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars given the high schools are mostly 1750-2250 in size. You obviously do not have kids at any of the above overcrowded schools - and they are VERY overcrowded! QO has 2100 students in a facility built for 1,700 and they add more portables every year. It's awful for the kids, the teachers, the staff. After reading ridiculous remarks like this, I'm glad Wootton is being targeted. I cant speak for QO and Gaithersburg, but RM is absolutely overcrowded. They have at least 12 portables (may be more, cant remember). The school assemblies are done in "shifts" because no area can accommodate all the kids. "Open lunch" is also due to overcrowding, but kids actually love that one. |
Anonymous
💯 could have used the $250M or whatever to redo Wootton or do an addition to 5-10 schools or a combo of that plus rebuild some old ES. Keeps taxpayers happy and solves any overcrowding problems. Adding more new schools is an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars given the high schools are mostly 1750-2250 in size. You obviously do not have kids at any of the above overcrowded schools - and they are VERY overcrowded! QO has 2100 students in a facility built for 1,700 and they add more portables every year. It's awful for the kids, the teachers, the staff. After reading ridiculous remarks like this, I'm glad Wootton is being targeted. +1 "not that crowded". lol I bet that "not that crowded" parent is in the Wootton cluster. They have no clue what an overcrowded HS is like. |
Anonymous
Some of the boundaries today make no sense, including Wootton boundary. MS are also over capacity. Makes sense to change the boundaries for MS now, too. Also, the current boundaries for |
brightwood
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Exactly. Crown is a school that doesn’t need to be built. There are only 400-500 surplus for QO, RM and Gaithersburg. There are not enough students to support a brand new high school. MCPS fabricated data to build crown and ignored decade long requests to renovate Wootton. Wootton is really the victim here because of the political agenda behind MCPS and BOE.
You clearly have not noticed all the townhomes, apartments, and condos going up in the area immediately around the new Crown site. I believe there are several thousand total new homes projected to go up in the next couple of years, most of which are being actively built. On top of all the homes being built in the Travillah Rd area. There is absolutely a need for a new high school. |
Anonymous
from that nearly 40 year old newspaper article... Now RM has the 'new' school and Wooton is aged. My oldest just graduated RM yesterday. She could walk to school, had open lunch, and great teachers. She didn't do IB but like half her friends did. I'm glad we arent being moved. |
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Although I don’t love it, I feel the same. The kids will still be at a W school and my property value remains the same.
It’s a win for us. This "W" school thing is such BS. I was at a non-W MCPS high school and I have a fantastic career and multiple gradate degrees. I have friends who went to "W" schools and are no more successful than I am, many less successful. Even the "worst" high school in Montgomery County is better than 99% of the schools around this country. People need to chill out. Your kids will be just fine at Crown. There are kids at RM and Rockville and Gaithersburg who will go on to be doctors, lawyer, and scientists. People need to get over themselves. |