Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study

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Anonymous wrote:County should turn over Wootton and RM to Rockville and Crown and Gaithersburg to Gaithersburg and let them run their own schools.

I highly doubt the City of Rockville and the City of Gaithersburg want to create their own school districts and all the headaches that come along with it. And all four of those schools have students who don't live within the respective incorporated city boundaries. Even under the most compact boundaries (option 4), Gaithersburg is still going to pull in a significant number of students that don't live within city limits.

Even if they did want to, it's not legal in Maryland. Public school districts are at the county level.

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Anonymous wrote:County should turn over Wootton and RM to Rockville and Crown and Gaithersburg to Gaithersburg and let them run their own schools.

I highly doubt the City of Rockville and the City of Gaithersburg want to create their own school districts and all the headaches that come along with it. And all four of those schools have students who don't live within the respective incorporated city boundaries. Even under the most compact boundaries (option 4), Gaithersburg is still going to pull in a significant number of students that don't live within city limits.

Why not? They have their own recreational facilities, police, zoning etc. I bet they wouldn't have to pull from outside of city limits since all of the density and new housing in the pipeline are there.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the City of Gaithersburg schools going to Lakelands / Crown or Gaithersburg HS makes too much sense. That will open space at QO and then it should to be filled by the western section of the current Wooton cluster. That is what makes the most sense.

So Kentlands and Lakelands should be bussed to Crowne or Gaithersburg when they are current walkers to QO. That sounds like such waste... Waste of busses, bus drivers, waste of commute time. This makes no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:City of Rockville all go to RM or Wooton.
City of Gaithersburg all go to Gaithersburg or Crown.
South and west of Gaithersburg and Rockville split between Churchill and QO.
Germantown and Clarskburg split between Northwest, Seneca Valley, Clarksburg.

It's just common sense.

Not really. FG is closer to Crown than Wootton, but FG is Rockville.

Like I said, part of the issue is that some of the schools are so close together that some people who are close to one school will end up at another.

FG is not closer to Crown - its *maybe* almost equidistant but Wootton is closer and accessible via the Millenium Trail. Walking from Fallagrove to Crown has no designated walking routes - there's not even sidewalks on part of the road heading from Key West towards Rio and it requires crossing Shady Grove Road and Key West Highway during rush hour.

This, one can easily bike/walk from Fallsgrove to Wootton entirely on sidewalks, but no way bike/walk to Crown.

Yeah the SFH side is a quick bike ride to Wootton for sure. Only have to cross 28 and Wootton intersection and it is already well lit and has great crosswalks. They also have quick ride on buses to Fallsgrove because half of Wootton goes there for lunch

FG to Wootton would probably make Wootton over capacity. FG is pretty large.

Unless I'm missing something, it's roughly 30 kids per grade.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the City of Gaithersburg schools going to Lakelands / Crown or Gaithersburg HS makes too much sense. That will open space at QO and then it should to be filled by the western section of the current Wooton cluster. That is what makes the most sense.

So Kentlands and Lakelands should be bussed to Crowne or Gaithersburg when they are current walkers to QO. That sounds like such waste... Waste of busses, bus drivers, waste of commute time. This makes no sense.

Yes, they should. It makes complete sense because Lakelands Park MS is located in Kentlands/Lakelands and Lakelands Park MS is one of the main feeders to Crown.

Plus the whole Lakelands side is more than mile from QO. It is not like QO is located in Kentlands.

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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.

In this case, which school neighborhood should zone to Crown HS?

Crown neighborhood, QO, RM, whatever left is overcrowded

Neighborhoods near Crown are currently zoned for Wootton. Makes sense to include it.

No that is only a bunch of townhouses and maybe some apartments. Not enough to play with Wooton. They should go to crown they are in waking distance but to take Stonemill out of wooton one of its largest feeders is stupid logistics. Wooton is under enrolled.

All four options added the whole Wayside ES to Wootton, so Wootton is not under-enrolled when that happens. Wayside doesn't want to go to Wootton anyways. They should leave both Churchill and Wootton alone.

100%. Leave them both alone! The overcapacity at Churchill is a bunch of bologna. My neighbors go there and say they don’t think it’s overcrowded at all. In fact it’s got like 50 more kids than it did a few years ago when there were no portables. Was just fine then!

Wootton/Churchill people please sign this petition to keep Wayside in Churchill which could help keep Wootton intact.
https://chng.it/SNLndcftLR

Speak for YOURSELF. There are plenty of actual parents at Churchill who SUPPORT Wayside moving and do find the school overcrowded. You clearly haven’t seen how hectic and inefficient fire drills are Churchill are. I was told by someone it took over 5 minutes to evacuate the building during one of the fire drills because of how crowded the stairs were, which created “traffic jams.” Wayside kids will live if they go to Wootton, another highly rated school with a strong community. They won’t live if they’re stuck in a building during a fire.

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Anonymous wrote:To no one’s surprise, very little change to Churchill under any of the options.

I’m in the small part that is changing. It’s pretty nuts because I live in the area right by the Potomac Community Center. That part of Wayside has been Churchill since its opening. We are literally 1.7-2 miles from Churchill yet the four options have us moving to Wootton which is 15-20 minutes a day longer commute. Not to mention this brings the Wootton boundary so far south. Very disappointed mostly because of Wootton being incredibly old/asbestos, the aforementioned increased time, and the fact that our neighborhood is very much part of the community with Beverly Farms, Bells Mill, Potomac and Seven Locks ES.

A big chunk of Wayside was developed in the mid 90s and originally was meant to go to Frost and Wootton but due to overcrowding at both, they moved them to the then under crowded Churchill.

Additionally a huge section of Potomac ES would stay at Churchill and drive past much of Wayside on the way. Whereas those areas might be equidistant from each, they are far closer to North Potomac community wise and should look different.

They really needed to redo ES boundaries as some are quite wacky and massively large. Also whoever was bright enough to build both Cabin John and Hoover MS within a mile from each other made a big mistake. A MS up closer to QO/Wootton/Crown would have been so much better.

The MS to HS splits are going to be pretty messy from both under these options.

That's not going to matter. Right now Fallsgrove is walking distance to Lakewood and Wootton but get bussed 15 minutes to Richie Park and Richard Montgomery. It's just the way ut is and always will work out that way for some neighborhoods close to certain schools but bussed to others.

Fallsgrove was part of a land sale deal which was contingent on this community never going to Wootton. No idea of the reasoning but this was the deal.

I read somewhere Fallsgrove went to Wootton like 30 years ago? (Can't remember precisely.)

Fallsgrove was built in 2002. During pre-build it was preliminarily zoned for Wootton but before anyone moved in it was moved to RM cluster. Meeting minutes from a 2000 city council meeting show tge council was concerned about overcrowding at Wootton due to Fallsgrove but other new communities have been built since and zoned into Wootton so it makes no sense. All of the new neighborhoods zoned into Wootton after Fallsgrove are farther away to the school than Fallsgrove is.

City Council minutes January 2000:
https://www.rockvillemd.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/2868?MOBILE=ON

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The Mayor said she had concerns about the school issues because it was clear Wootton High School could not absorb the population projected for Fallsgrove. However, if the Montgomery County Board of Education decides the students in Fallsgrove should go to Richard Montgomery High School and the staging of the development corresponds to either the building of a new RM or its substantial renovation, this issue could be very successfully resolved."

The Millenium Trail literally goes through/connects Fallsgrove to Lakewood and Wootton via the city's biggest bike/walking path but the kids get bussed to Ritchie Park, JW and RM when they could be walkers to elementary and high school.

Oh yea the ole bait n switch. I remember this clearly. Buy a new home into a W school district!! Then as the plots were sold and the houses were built they were like welp, sorry. We are gonna bus you further to a crappier district and you already lost 10-20% of your home value. People were spitting mad.

And for the people claiming they prefer RM must only be renters because Fallsgrove, Potomac Woods, Horizon Hill, Orchard Ridge, etc.. would see an increase of 50-100K on their homes value if they were moved back to Wootton.

Wootton is a fake W school. Much like Rockville, the school was originally strictly middle-class and working-class white families and was not at all socio-economically aligned with the other Ws. Then eventually, a lot of Asian families moved in and the test scores of the school increased, attracting more UMC families.

It’s not all that different than RM, which has a similar history but then saw an influx of buy in after the magnet program became successful and made it a top 10 school, attracting a lot of new UMC families to the area.

$100k is not a huge price difference, especially considering the price difference between homes zoned for Churchill and Wootton is much, much larger than $100k.

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Anonymous wrote:Why isn't geography the only driving factor in boundary options? Why do they always want to bus kids further and further out of their community? We're upcounty but these "options" are ridiculous.

Demographics.

I forget what corresponds with which but a couple of posts mentioned which option fulfills which goal. ie little disruption (is option 1), balancing demographics, which probably includes SES/FARMS, capacity, etc.

In one of the recent rezonings at Howard County, one of the goals was to make sure each school didn't have a FARMS rate above a certain percentage or something like that.

But...with Wootton, aren't they moving in a Potomac school and moving out some of their lower-income (by Wootton standards) neighborhoods? Is this helping anything demographically? Is it really a better option than doing nothing to Wootton when it currently has no capacity issues?

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Anonymous wrote:To no one’s surprise, very little change to Churchill under any of the options.

I’m in the small part that is changing. It’s pretty nuts because I live in the area right by the Potomac Community Center. That part of Wayside has been Churchill since its opening. We are literally 1.7-2 miles from Churchill yet the four options have us moving to Wootton which is 15-20 minutes a day longer commute. Not to mention this brings the Wootton boundary so far south. Very disappointed mostly because of Wootton being incredibly old/asbestos, the aforementioned increased time, and the fact that our neighborhood is very much part of the community with Beverly Farms, Bells Mill, Potomac and Seven Locks ES.

A big chunk of Wayside was developed in the mid 90s and originally was meant to go to Frost and Wootton but due to overcrowding at both, they moved them to the then under crowded Churchill.

Additionally a huge section of Potomac ES would stay at Churchill and drive past much of Wayside on the way. Whereas those areas might be equidistant from each, they are far closer to North Potomac community wise and should look different.

They really needed to redo ES boundaries as some are quite wacky and massively large. Also whoever was bright enough to build both Cabin John and Hoover MS within a mile from each other made a big mistake. A MS up closer to QO/Wootton/Crown would have been so much better.

The MS to HS splits are going to be pretty messy from both under these options.

That's not going to matter. Right now Fallsgrove is walking distance to Lakewood and Wootton but get bussed 15 minutes to Richie Park and Richard Montgomery. It's just the way ut is and always will work out that way for some neighborhoods close to certain schools but bussed to others.

Fallsgrove was part of a land sale deal which was contingent on this community never going to Wootton. No idea of the reasoning but this was the deal.

I read somewhere Fallsgrove went to Wootton like 30 years ago? (Can't remember precisely.)

Fallsgrove was built in 2002. During pre-build it was preliminarily zoned for Wootton but before anyone moved in it was moved to RM cluster. Meeting minutes from a 2000 city council meeting show tge council was concerned about overcrowding at Wootton due to Fallsgrove but other new communities have been built since and zoned into Wootton so it makes no sense. All of the new neighborhoods zoned into Wootton after Fallsgrove are farther away to the school than Fallsgrove is.

City Council minutes January 2000:
https://www.rockvillemd.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/2868?MOBILE=ON

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The Mayor said she had concerns about the school issues because it was clear Wootton High School could not absorb the population projected for Fallsgrove. However, if the Montgomery County Board of Education decides the students in Fallsgrove should go to Richard Montgomery High School and the staging of the development corresponds to either the building of a new RM or its substantial renovation, this issue could be very successfully resolved."

The Millenium Trail literally goes through/connects Fallsgrove to Lakewood and Wootton via the city's biggest bike/walking path but the kids get bussed to Ritchie Park, JW and RM when they could be walkers to elementary and high school.

Oh yea the ole bait n switch. I remember this clearly. Buy a new home into a W school district!! Then as the plots were sold and the houses were built they were like welp, sorry. We are gonna bus you further to a crappier district and you already lost 10-20% of your home value. People were spitting mad.

And for the people claiming they prefer RM must only be renters because Fallsgrove, Potomac Woods, Horizon Hill, Orchard Ridge, etc.. would see an increase of 50-100K on their homes value if they were moved back to Wootton.

Wootton is a fake W school. Much like Rockville, the school was originally strictly middle-class and working-class white families and was not at all socio-economically aligned with the other Ws. Then eventually, a lot of Asian families moved in and the test scores of the school increased, attracting more UMC families.

It’s not all that different than RM, which has a similar history but then saw an influx of buy in after the magnet program became successful and made it a top 10 school, attracting a lot of new UMC families to the area.

$100k is not a huge price difference, especially considering the price difference between homes zoned for Churchill and Wootton is much, much larger than $100k.

You need to look further at the types of houses for the potential socioeconomic levels. Newer SFHs are generally UMC and expensive. In the current RM boundary, the newer SFHs are in Rose Hill/Rose Hill Farms and Fallsgrove. There are UMC families in older SFHs around RPES (e.g., Falls Orchard, Horizon Hill). There are also large SFHs in West End that were build from tear-downs. King Farm also has some nice larger SFHs. Then there are a number of pricier townhomes in Park Potomac, Fallsgrove, and King Farm. Other than that, MOST of the homes in the RM boundary are older 1950s-1970s homes. These older homes are usually smaller and not as expensive. Twinbrook and Hungerford are great examples for these homes. There are a number of apartments (new and old) all over. Now look at the current Wootton boundary. For apartments, there is the Rio area, but also some of the townhomes there are expensive. There are really not many other apartments in the boundary. There are a number of townhomes, especially right across Wootton Parkway. While these are older 1970s (1980s?) homes, they are generally pretty nice. The rest of the boundary has large, single family homes, and many of those are post-2000. There are a lot of McMansions. The older homes often have a good amount of land, too, and many have been renovated or added onto. There is just so much UMC potential there vs. within the RM boundary. SO I would say these are really very different. Wootton had much more undeveloped land that got developed into larger and pricier homes.

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Anonymous wrote:Why isn't geography the only driving factor in boundary options? Why do they always want to bus kids further and further out of their community? We're upcounty but these "options" are ridiculous.

Demographics.

I forget what corresponds with which but a couple of posts mentioned which option fulfills which goal. ie little disruption (is option 1), balancing demographics, which probably includes SES/FARMS, capacity, etc.

In one of the recent rezonings at Howard County, one of the goals was to make sure each school didn't have a FARMS rate above a certain percentage or something like that.

But...with Wootton, aren't they moving in a Potomac school and moving out some of their lower-income (by Wootton standards) neighborhoods? Is this helping anything demographically? Is it really a better option than doing nothing to Wootton when it currently has no capacity issues?

That's a question I have too. Where the area where some of the options has splitting students from a neighborhood from the rest of the elementary school actually has some townhomes that are cheaper than some other ones in that school zone.

So they're proposing to move that neighborhood with the relatively lower cost townhomes to a new school that also has several other townhome, condo and apartment communities feeding into it. (based on a quick look, I didn't really dig into it)

I think everyone agrees that the proposed options don't make sense.

But just saying one of their rationales of the bussing around is to spread/even out demographics.

This is the copy and paste of another comment that described the goal of each option:

#1 is all about stability, #2 about utilization, #3 about demographics, and #4 about proximity

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Anonymous wrote:City of Rockville all go to RM or Wooton.
City of Gaithersburg all go to Gaithersburg or Crown.
South and west of Gaithersburg and Rockville split between Churchill and QO.
Germantown and Clarskburg split between Northwest, Seneca Valley, Clarksburg.

It's just common sense.

Not really. FG is closer to Crown than Wootton, but FG is Rockville.

Like I said, part of the issue is that some of the schools are so close together that some people who are close to one school will end up at another.

FG is not closer to Crown - its *maybe* almost equidistant but Wootton is closer and accessible via the Millenium Trail. Walking from Fallagrove to Crown has no designated walking routes - there's not even sidewalks on part of the road heading from Key West towards Rio and it requires crossing Shady Grove Road and Key West Highway during rush hour.

This, one can easily bike/walk from Fallsgrove to Wootton entirely on sidewalks, but no way bike/walk to Crown.

Yeah the SFH side is a quick bike ride to Wootton for sure. Only have to cross 28 and Wootton intersection and it is already well lit and has great crosswalks. They also have quick ride on buses to Fallsgrove because half of Wootton goes there for lunch

FG to Wootton would probably make Wootton over capacity. FG is pretty large.

Unless I'm missing something, it's roughly 30 kids per grade.

30 x 4 years = 120 kids

It would make Wootton over capacity.

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Anonymous wrote:City of Rockville all go to RM or Wooton.
City of Gaithersburg all go to Gaithersburg or Crown.
South and west of Gaithersburg and Rockville split between Churchill and QO.
Germantown and Clarskburg split between Northwest, Seneca Valley, Clarksburg.

It's just common sense.

Not really. FG is closer to Crown than Wootton, but FG is Rockville.

Like I said, part of the issue is that some of the schools are so close together that some people who are close to one school will end up at another.

FG is not closer to Crown - its *maybe* almost equidistant but Wootton is closer and accessible via the Millenium Trail. Walking from Fallagrove to Crown has no designated walking routes - there's not even sidewalks on part of the road heading from Key West towards Rio and it requires crossing Shady Grove Road and Key West Highway during rush hour.

This, one can easily bike/walk from Fallsgrove to Wootton entirely on sidewalks, but no way bike/walk to Crown.

Yeah the SFH side is a quick bike ride to Wootton for sure. Only have to cross 28 and Wootton intersection and it is already well lit and has great crosswalks. They also have quick ride on buses to Fallsgrove because half of Wootton goes there for lunch

FG to Wootton would probably make Wootton over capacity. FG is pretty large.

Unless I'm missing something, it's roughly 30 kids per grade.

It’s probably more like 35

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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.

In this case, which school neighborhood should zone to Crown HS?

Crown neighborhood, QO, RM, whatever left is overcrowded

Neighborhoods near Crown are currently zoned for Wootton. Makes sense to include it.

No that is only a bunch of townhouses and maybe some apartments. Not enough to play with Wooton. They should go to crown they are in waking distance but to take Stonemill out of wooton one of its largest feeders is stupid logistics. Wooton is under enrolled.

All four options added the whole Wayside ES to Wootton, so Wootton is not under-enrolled when that happens. Wayside doesn't want to go to Wootton anyways. They should leave both Churchill and Wootton alone.

100%. Leave them both alone! The overcapacity at Churchill is a bunch of bologna. My neighbors go there and say they don’t think it’s overcrowded at all. In fact it’s got like 50 more kids than it did a few years ago when there were no portables. Was just fine then!

Wootton/Churchill people please sign this petition to keep Wayside in Churchill which could help keep Wootton intact.
https://chng.it/SNLndcftLR

Speak for YOURSELF. There are plenty of actual parents at Churchill who SUPPORT Wayside moving and do find the school overcrowded. You clearly haven’t seen how hectic and inefficient fire drills are Churchill are. I was told by someone it took over 5 minutes to evacuate the building during one of the fire drills because of how crowded the stairs were, which created “traffic jams.” Wayside kids will live if they go to Wootton, another highly rated school with a strong community. They won’t live if they’re stuck in a building during a fire.

Why don't these parents start a petition moving them out of Churchill? Not rhetorical.

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Quick review makes my scratch my head re Travilah ES assignment in Option 4: QO high and Cabin John Middle? and moving it to Hoover and all other options? Makes no sense to me at all.
For my house value - only option 4 would affect as negatively with Travilah going to QO. Hope it won't happen

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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.

In this case, which school neighborhood should zone to Crown HS?

Crown neighborhood, QO, RM, whatever left is overcrowded

Neighborhoods near Crown are currently zoned for Wootton. Makes sense to include it.

No that is only a bunch of townhouses and maybe some apartments. Not enough to play with Wooton. They should go to crown they are in waking distance but to take Stonemill out of wooton one of its largest feeders is stupid logistics. Wooton is under enrolled.

All four options added the whole Wayside ES to Wootton, so Wootton is not under-enrolled when that happens. Wayside doesn't want to go to Wootton anyways. They should leave both Churchill and Wootton alone.

100%. Leave them both alone! The overcapacity at Churchill is a bunch of bologna. My neighbors go there and say they don’t think it’s overcrowded at all. In fact it’s got like 50 more kids than it did a few years ago when there were no portables. Was just fine then!

Wootton/Churchill people please sign this petition to keep Wayside in Churchill which could help keep Wootton intact.
https://chng.it/SNLndcftLR

Speak for YOURSELF. There are plenty of actual parents at Churchill who SUPPORT Wayside moving and do find the school overcrowded. You clearly haven’t seen how hectic and inefficient fire drills are Churchill are. I was told by someone it took over 5 minutes to evacuate the building during one of the fire drills because of how crowded the stairs were, which created “traffic jams.” Wayside kids will live if they go to Wootton, another highly rated school with a strong community. They won’t live if they’re stuck in a building during a fire.

Why don't these parents start a petition moving them out of Churchill? Not rhetorical.

They won't stop at wayside. They are coming after all the UMC neighborhoods one at time.