Wootton Announces They Have Formally Retained Silverman & Thompson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton cluster family here. Legal pursuits are being explored by a small faction of very angry people. Please don’t make it seem as if it’s the school or the whole community.

Speaking of which, has the PTSA or Rockville elected officials come out and said they support the legal action or is this just some of the Wootton walkers who are doing this on their own?

A couple families in Cabin Branch tried this…they lost. The boundary went into place while the court case progressed. It was a waste of time and money.

This is way more than a boundary case. That’s why it’s different than the Clarksburg case that lost, and is much closer to other cases where MCPS failed to follow its own policies and state law.

How so?

And if you say "it's actually a closing", I'm going to throw a pillow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wootton cluster family here. Legal pursuits are being explored by a small faction of very angry people. Please don’t make it seem as if it’s the school or the whole community.

Speaking of which, has the PTSA or Rockville elected officials come out and said they support the legal action or is this just some of the Wootton walkers who are doing this on their own?

A couple families in Cabin Branch tried this…they lost. The boundary went into place while the court case progressed. It was a waste of time and money.

This is way more than a boundary case. That’s why it’s different than the Clarksburg case that lost, and is much closer to other cases where MCPS failed to follow its own policies and state law.

How so?

And if you say "it's actually a closing", I'm going to throw a pillow.

It’s actually a closing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hilarious thing here... a law firm was retained, attorneys announced… where’s the lawsuit? Were there any laws broken? Is there a case?? Or is it that the money isn’t there to pay for the attorney fees?

It would probably take a few hundred thousand to fight it and they probably raised what $20-30K at most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hilarious thing here... a law firm was retained, attorneys announced… where’s the lawsuit? Were there any laws broken? Is there a case?? Or is it that the money isn’t there to pay for the attorney fees?

It would probably take a few hundred thousand to fight it and they probably raised what $20-30K at most.

No refunds, friends!!!

[Anonymous]

What is a feasible alternative? The Save Wootton groups alternative is use Crown in the short term while renovating Wootton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a lawyer, but on what grounds is this group planning on suing MCPS? And what are they hoping to do? Either way, Crown HS will open in 18 months, and I’m pretty sure MCPS isn’t going to have a brand new HS sit unused.

Isn’t it illegal to make “rich” kids go to school with Gaithersburg kids?

Just the poor Gaithersburg kids. Some Gaithersburg families are richer than Wootton families so maybe they should not be allowed at crown as they are too poor.

What Gaithersburg families are we talking about here? Rio was already part of Wootton. Crown houses go for about $1.6 mil. Stop making it about Wootton parents not wanting to mingle with Gaithersburg families. Fields Road ES? It adds about 200 Farms kids. The demographics stay virtually the same. It’s about proximity and MCPS mismanaging funds. All the fraud will
exposed in court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hilarious thing here... a law firm was retained, attorneys announced… where’s the lawsuit? Were there any laws broken? Is there a case?? Or is it that the money isn’t there to pay for the attorney fees?

It would probably take a few hundred thousand to fight it and they probably raised what $20-30K at most.

O how wrong you are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crazy. They demanded a better building because the current building is unsafe and unhealthy, got one immediately, and are upset because the new building has the wrong city name.

You obviously know nothing. We have been promised construction and refresh of the high school for years. I heard about it when my kids were in elementary school in 2009. They're now both about to finish college. Wootton was supposed to be refreshed when my older child was a freshman, which was in 2017. The school board kept on delaying it. So they caused the obsolescence and then used it as an excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hilarious thing here... a law firm was retained, attorneys announced… where’s the lawsuit? Were there any laws broken? Is there a case?? Or is it that the money isn’t there to pay for the attorney fees?

It would probably take a few hundred thousand to fight it and they probably raised what $20-30K at most.

No refunds, friends!!!

Apparently, accountability isn't their strong suit. Where is that money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crazy. They demanded a better building because the current building is unsafe and unhealthy, got one immediately, and are upset because the new building has the wrong city name.

You obviously know nothing. We have been promised construction and refresh of the high school for years. I heard about it when my kids were in elementary school in 2009. They're now both about to finish college. Wootton was supposed to be refreshed when my older child was a freshman, which was in 2017. The school board kept on delaying it. So they caused the obsolescence and then used it as an excuse.

Many of us were promised many things and it hasn't happened. Right now, there is a brand new building near you, you are saying that the school facility is terrible so why wouldn't you want it. You don't even have kids that will be impacted by this. Your kids are adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hilarious thing here... a law firm was retained, attorneys announced… where’s the lawsuit? Were there any laws broken? Is there a case?? Or is it that the money isn’t there to pay for the attorney fees?

It would probably take a few hundred thousand to fight it and they probably raised what $20-30K at most.

O how wrong you are

Please share with us then. Want to sue, please do it. Great entertainment for us. Maybe you will win. Think about all that money on attorney's that could be used for new things for the new school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crazy. They demanded a better building because the current building is unsafe and unhealthy, got one immediately, and are upset because the new building has the wrong city name.

You obviously know nothing. We have been promised construction and refresh of the high school for years. I heard about it when my kids were in elementary school in 2009. They're now both about to finish college. Wootton was supposed to be refreshed when my older child was a freshman, which was in 2017. The school board kept on delaying it. So they caused the obsolescence and then used it as an excuse.

Many of us were promised many things and it hasn't happened. Right now, there is a brand new building near you, you are saying that the school facility is terrible so why wouldn't you want it. You don't even have kids that will be impacted by this. Your kids are adults.

. Why would the board close a school that has consistently been one of the top 10 schools in the nation. That's why housing prices were high. People wanted to move to this area to go to that school. Housing prices reflected that. So thanks to the Board of Education. The value of my house just dropped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a lawyer, but on what grounds is this group planning on suing MCPS? And what are they hoping to do? Either way, Crown HS will open in 18 months, and I’m pretty sure MCPS isn’t going to have a brand new HS sit unused.

Isn’t it illegal to make “rich” kids go to school with Gaithersburg kids?

Just the poor Gaithersburg kids. Some Gaithersburg families are richer than Wootton families so maybe they should not be allowed at crown as they are too poor.

What Gaithersburg families are we talking about here? Rio was already part of Wootton. Crown houses go for about $1.6 mil. Stop making it about Wootton parents not wanting to mingle with Gaithersburg families. Fields Road ES? It adds about 200 Farms kids. The demographics stay virtually the same. It’s about proximity and MCPS mismanaging funds. All the fraud will
exposed in court.

But it is about Gaithersburg kids. Not the rich ones but yuck to new money amirite

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crazy. They demanded a better building because the current building is unsafe and unhealthy, got one immediately, and are upset because the new building has the wrong city name.

You obviously know nothing. We have been promised construction and refresh of the high school for years. I heard about it when my kids were in elementary school in 2009. They're now both about to finish college. Wootton was supposed to be refreshed when my older child was a freshman, which was in 2017. The school board kept on delaying it. So they caused the obsolescence and then used it as an excuse.

Many of us were promised many things and it hasn't happened. Right now, there is a brand new building near you, you are saying that the school facility is terrible so why wouldn't you want it. You don't even have kids that will be impacted by this. Your kids are adults.

. Why would the board close a school that has consistently been one of the top 10 schools in the nation. That's why housing prices were high. People wanted to move to this area to go to that school. Housing prices reflected that. So thanks to the Board of Education. The value of my house just dropped.

You want the whole county to subside your housing prices? Didn’t work that way,

Watch out or the rest of the county might petition for a data center on that land. 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The hilarious thing here... a law firm was retained, attorneys announced… where’s the lawsuit? Were there any laws broken? Is there a case?? Or is it that the money isn’t there to pay for the attorney fees?

It would probably take a few hundred thousand to fight it and they probably raised what $20-30K at most.

O how wrong you are

Please share with us then. Want to sue, please do it. Great entertainment for us. Maybe you will win. Think about all that money on attorney's that could be used for new things for the new school.

How much did Taylor spend on legal fees for the Mahmoud case? Or the EV bus case he’s still fighting? Or any of the other cases that MCPS lost? All that money could have gone to remediate the problems at Wootton and Magruder.

Also, Crown wasn’t needed, a fact that was pretty obvious by the time MCPS broke ground in July 2024 (who in their right mind uses pre-Covid enrollment projections)? Then again, if MCPS didnt build Crown it would lose the land ($200M) and money from the state ($100M), so it was a wash to spend $300M to build Crown and force Wootton to move - making the Crown developers (real estate $$$$) and Gaithersburg government ($$$$ tax revenue from new residents) very happy.