Wootton Announces They Have Formally Retained Silverman & Thompson

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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. 😂

The county seems to be willing to subsidize Crown develop and current Crown residents.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not a part of the Wootton cluster so I’m not speaking w inside knowledge. But I think there is a major issue here at play that can absolutely get the Supreme Court involved, especially the current one. It would be an extension of a previous SCOTUS case (and no not the opt out case)

Do tell, what's the major issue or is it top secret?

Not sure what they are thinking but I wonder if it's the "Asian dispersal" argument that they have been trying to use. Which makes no sense since the Asian % of Wootton is currently 44% and at Crown it will be 39%, meaning that demographic continues to be a plurality at the new school...

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled school districts could not use race to drive boundary decisions outside of school districts that are still under Brown-era desegregation orders. The decision famously contained the line: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." That decision was authored by Chief Justice Roberts.

I get we're dealing with a very different Supreme Court today, but I cannot see them wanting to re-open anything that might erode that precedent. It's one of the key reasons so many of our school districts have returned to pre-Brown v. Board levels of segregation.

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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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

🤣 Keep thinking that. When the avalanche comes, mcps is surely going to look silly (as will you)

[Anonymous]

Man these people will do anything to discredit the lawsuit.
First, it was they didn’t even hire lawyers, they are clearly taking the donations and pocketing it.
Now, ok fine they hired but they aren’t filing. LOL who the heck hires attorneys but doesn’t file.

If the case has no merit, why are you all so scared?
I can guarantee you, WHEN (not if) the filings are made, they will be epic.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Pretty sure when people are about to sue a major school district, they aren’t going to broadcast all of their strategies ahead of the filings

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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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Pretty sure when people are about to sue a major school district, they aren’t going to broadcast all of their strategies ahead of the filings

I don’t have any personal stakes in this so this is from an outside perspective but, why be so defensive that this is totally gonna work in an online forum that’s anonymous? If your case is so rock solid why the need to prove it here?

You may be right that you’ll cause an avalanche and win, but you have to admit that there has been a consistent degree of triumphalism from Wootton people since day 1 that makes people doubtful. The certainty that all the objections would lead Taylor to not choose Option H. The certainty that threatening to not vote for board candidates would alter the vote. Etc.

Your certainty here may be placed correctly, but the track record across these past few months, you have to admit, will make outsiders doubt you unless you share compelling evidence.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Now that Montoya exposed herself as a bigot and it is on video, even blind layers will find something viable.

I have one question, though. Since Taylor insisted that all three votes are 'intrinsically related does invalidating Crown vote, invalidates all three?

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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.

Can you read a map? With the exception of the areas directly next to the current Wootton high school, the current Wootton boundaries are about as close to Crown as they were to Wootton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Now that Montoya exposed herself as a bigot and it is on video, even blind layers will find something viable.

I have one question, though. Since Taylor insisted that all three votes are 'intrinsically related does invalidating Crown vote, invalidates all three?

layer = lawyer, if anyone was confused

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Now that Montoya exposed herself as a bigot and it is on video, even blind layers will find something viable.

I have one question, though. Since Taylor insisted that all three votes are 'intrinsically related does invalidating Crown vote, invalidates all three?

layer = lawyer, if anyone was confused

The funniest thing is Montoya herself is a lawyer, so you think she’d know better.

She clearly isn’t a good lawyer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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. 😂

The county seems to be willing to subsidize Crown develop and current Crown residents.

Okay tin hat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Now that Montoya exposed herself as a bigot and it is on video, even blind layers will find something viable.

I have one question, though. Since Taylor insisted that all three votes are 'intrinsically related does invalidating Crown vote, invalidates all three?

1) Montoya’s point was that there isn’t currently enough to programming to ensure that Black and Brown kids get served - hence the need for the regional programming model - not that Asian and White kids should somehow be disqualified.
1) When she suggested a vote against the resolution was racist, she was talking about the regional program, not the boundary study so…I guess you better hope so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Now that Montoya exposed herself as a bigot and it is on video, even blind layers will find something viable.

I have one question, though. Since Taylor insisted that all three votes are 'intrinsically related does invalidating Crown vote, invalidates all three?

1) Montoya’s point was that there isn’t currently enough to programming to ensure that Black and Brown kids get served - hence the need for the regional programming model - not that Asian and White kids should somehow be disqualified.
1) When she suggested a vote against the resolution was racist, she was talking about the regional program, not the boundary study so…I guess you better hope so?

I highly doubt whatever Montoya said last night has anything to do with the legal argument people will be making. Waiting for evidence at the final hearing wouldn’t make any sense as the foundation of the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Their own announcement last night said that they were retaining the firm to "explore all available legal options to challenge the implementation of 'Modified Option H.'" They haven't filed yet because they haven't found something viable. I seriously hope parents are thinking twice before giving them money - especially since, in my experience, they're not willing to share the grounds for their action but VERY ready to share there will not be any refunds.

Now that Montoya exposed herself as a bigot and it is on video, even blind layers will find something viable.

I have one question, though. Since Taylor insisted that all three votes are 'intrinsically related does invalidating Crown vote, invalidates all three?

1) Montoya’s point was that there isn’t currently enough to programming to ensure that Black and Brown kids get served - hence the need for the regional programming model - not that Asian and White kids should somehow be disqualified.
1) When she suggested a vote against the resolution was racist, she was talking about the regional program, not the boundary study so…I guess you better hope so?

I highly doubt whatever Montoya said last night has anything to do with the legal argument people will be making. Waiting for evidence at the final hearing wouldn’t make any sense as the foundation of the case.

New evidence to strengthen your case will not hurt.