Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
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Anonymous
Probably just a troll trying to be sarcastic to Wootton families. Most of us can’t even afford one child going to private, let alone 3. If they really have the money to afford 3 private school tuition, then why not buy a house in Whitman? The mortgage would be cheaper than 3 tuitions. Wootton is really not Whitman. |
Anonymous
The haters don’t care. They either own a house in Crown, the value of which will increase by trading on the Wootton reputation (in name only) or want to see Wootton destroyed and those evil rich, white and Asian families forced into a school they don’t want. Wootton families don’t support the move to Crown. Any that do likely live near Crown and fall into the first bucket. |
Anonymous
You could but it’s about lifestyle choices. If you can afford a 1-2 million dollar house, you can afford private. Three is also a choice. |
Anonymous
Then stop complaining and take your place in line with repairs and stop being entitled to demand it now when other schools are worse off. |
Anonymous
Great. Or, get a job and pay for it yourself vs expecting others to fund your lifestyle. |
Anonymous
Same academic level? There is a huge range at every school. Not every kid is super bright. |
Anonymous
Remediate the immediate problems and we will. There is money for that, but you would rather force a move that isn’t wanted. |
Anonymous
So guaranty Crown will be ranked the same academically as the current Wootton. You can do that, right? |
Anonymous
One could say the same for you if you live near Crown and will benefit from a forced move of Wootton. Go buy a house near Whitman, WJ or Churchill if you want a better school. |
Anonymous
About 80% of the students will be the same. As to teachers, you think you're going to have MORE turnover because they no longer get to work in their moldy building?? |
Anonymous
Perhaps, but it might be a good idea for someone to ask Wootton teachers about their preferences. (Unless, like another PP who was dismissive of the idea of staff being a stakeholder, Wootton parents think their current teachers are replacement-level.) |
Anonymous
Not if they remediate those immediate issues. Then the staff will stay. OTOH, MCPS might involuntarily transfer Wootton teachers to Crown to staff up and force the move to Crown. |
Anonymous
Most of Wootton houses are not that expensive and most wootton families are not that rich for private schools. Crown houses are actually more expensive. There are people spent 2 million on crown houses and still go private. |
Anonymous
With all of those in the current Wootton catchment attending, that cohort would tend to perform similarly, with similar family engagement (e.g., PTA), academic support (e.g., outside enrichment), and available electives/advanced courses (at least based on how MCPS has allowed such differences to arise among schools thus far). If the added student population from right around Crown happened not to have similar academic/family characteristics, then the school may not have the same average performance (e.g., scores on tests or the like), but the impact on individual Wootton students likely would amout to greater exposure (e.g., socially, though that would be something mitigated somewhat, if not entirely, by personal preference) to those who are not as similar to them as are those from the current catchment. Moreover, with the regions, the very high performing Wootton-catchment students who would be going to Blair SMCS under the current paradigm will, instead, be staying at Wootton, presuming that it maintains the designation as the STEM magnet for the region. There may also be high performing students who elect to stay instead of going to any regional IB, with RMIB, then in another region. Since the projections driving the options are based on home-catchment student populations (and not on magnet placement outside the home school) those two groups already are counted in the tables, though any net result of the magnets within the region remains unclear. I haven't seen any plan to "continue to fill the empty spots with more GHS kids." Per another poster a few pages back, adding the 2031-32 projections for the Option G Wootton population (no catchment change) with the immediate Crown-area population from the same option, where Crown would "serve" around 500 students in the immediate area in addition to being a holding school, would proxy for the projected population if Fields Road ES were added to Option H. That's a bit off, since there is a portion of Diamond ES that is directed to Crown in Option G which would not be directed there with Option H plus Fields Road; in addition, smaller upcoming ES boundary changes may be met with conforming adjustments to HS boundaries, with the effect, again, of remediating projected overcrowding. Even though these two considerations would mean Wootton at Crown would not be overcapacity by as much as the 215 suggested by that poster, it would have no more capacity to "fill the empty spots with more GHS kids" (or Churchill kids, or QO kids, or...). From Travilah to Fields Road (and everywhere else in MCPS, of course), the school system has no less responsibility to one neighborhood than another in meeting the collective needs of the students, even if the prevalences of the types of need (and the costs of addressing them) differ from neighborhood to neighborhood and school community to school community. Seeking to sequester other communities away from one's own, with the result of better-than-average service for the latter at the expense of worse-than-average for the former is...well, ew. |
Anonymous
| Because my cousin told me that Woton doesnt even have the homecoming dance anymore the first thing we do when we come together as a family is bring that back and continue as one ok |