Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok as promised, only some preliminary votes are in but here we go…

The Bruno’s:
-Cold Spring
-Wayside
-Ritchie Park
-Kentlands

We don’t talk about them

Is this the list of schools walking to Crown

Do you even live in MOCO? Kentlands is the only one of these schools even remotely walkable to crown (and it’s still not close by any means and requires seriously busy roads). Then one is in Potomac and two are right on the Rockville/Potomac border. So to answer your completely uninformed question, no.

Ma’am this is a Wendy’s

I know you think you are clever, but no matter how many times you comment this it doesn’t get any funnier. It was a stupid question and I answered it accordingly.

Well your answer wasn’t quite right. Of these schools Ritchie Park, specifically the Fallsgrove section, is the only one that’s walkable to Crown (ie 2 miles or less).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:enjoy your brand new building Wootton community. Quit your complaining!!!!! it's obnoxious. and get your school violence under control instead of nagging about your gift compliments of the taxpayer. good grief

It’s not a gift if it’s forced.

It was gifted. They complained and Mcps listened and bumped other students to give them a brand new school.

No MCPS didn’t. It built a school that wasn’t needed and decided to close Wootton to cover up its mistake. Wootton wanted remediation of its current facility. Taylor actually proposed using Crown as a holding school first - why would he do that if he truly felt that Wootton deserved it over the need to renovate worse off buildings lime Magruder?

No, you weren't willing to wait your turn and demanded immediate action. Your group demanded schools in worse shape not get repairs so your school could get them. The best solution was to move Wootton over to the new site. You won, safe new school Move on.

[Anonymous]

Wow. So Wootton is going with the nuclear option:

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/03/13/save-wootton-files-state-and-county-ig-complaints-establishes-legal-defense-fund/

Save Wootton, a stakeholder coalition formed to prevent the closure of Wootton High School, has announced that it has filed complaints with state and county inspectors general as well as the Maryland State Department of Education claiming irregularities in MCPS’s process to determine the fate of the school. The group has also announced a legal defense fund “managed by the newly-formed non-profit, the Community and Education Policy Alliance (CEPA,) with plans to sue over multiple aspects of the mismanaged decision-making process.”

I'm not confident they'll be successful, but this goes to show why MCPS has historically avoided ruffling feathers at the W schools: Things escalate real quick and there's a large cohort of well-resourced and organized parents who will make life difficult for MCPS if they piss them off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. So Wootton is going with the nuclear option:

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/03/13/save-wootton-files-state-and-county-ig-complaints-establishes-legal-defense-fund/

Save Wootton, a stakeholder coalition formed to prevent the closure of Wootton High School, has announced that it has filed complaints with state and county inspectors general as well as the Maryland State Department of Education claiming irregularities in MCPS’s process to determine the fate of the school. The group has also announced a legal defense fund “managed by the newly-formed non-profit, the Community and Education Policy Alliance (CEPA,) with plans to sue over multiple aspects of the mismanaged decision-making process.”

I'm not confident they'll be successful, but this goes to show why MCPS has historically avoided ruffling feathers at the W schools: Things escalate real quick and there's a large cohort of well-resourced and organized parents who will make life difficult for MCPS if they piss them off.

Clarksburg families tried too and failed; they threw a bunch of different arguments at it (violations of open meetings acts, illegal use of race, illegal change of policy), none of them stuck.

One quote from the judge's decision stands out:
“The MCBOE cannot be restricted in this manner. … MCBOE can relieve the over- and under-utilization issues at the high school level without having to burden the citizens of Montgomery County with funding an expensive capital project.”

We'll see what legal arguments this group comes up with.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020/07/22/lawsuit-challenging-recent-upcounty-redistricting-dismissed/

[Anonymous]

The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

But then there's the question of if that violates the agreement they made with the land donor of using the site as a comprehensive, local high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

You're right. I want my government to make decisions based entirely on avoiding lawsuits, regardless of the merits. In fact, I think we should all generally cave in doing what we think is best if somebody threatens to sue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

Or, Parkway parents could accept a brand new HS and not waste taxpayer money via a lawsuit against the school district for making the most fiscally responsible decision based on the current situation.

Or Parkway parents could send their kids to private schools.

Or Parkway parents could continue to choose to send their kids to a school that is falling apart.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

You're right. I want my government to make decisions based entirely on avoiding lawsuits, regardless of the merits. In fact, I think we should all generally cave in doing what we think is best if somebody threatens to sue.

Sounds like a Trump move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

That sounds nice. I wonder why Taylor thinks he needs the Wootton HS enrollment at Crown to make Crown's opening viable?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

Or, Parkway parents could accept a brand new HS and not waste taxpayer money via a lawsuit against the school district for making the most fiscally responsible decision based on the current situation.

Or Parkway parents could send their kids to private schools.

Or Parkway parents could continue to choose to send their kids to a school that is falling apart.

Yo, let's chill. This attitude was the same that landed MCPS before the Supreme Court, which it then lost and now owes millions in dollars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

Or, Parkway parents could accept a brand new HS and not waste taxpayer money via a lawsuit against the school district for making the most fiscally responsible decision based on the current situation.

Or Parkway parents could send their kids to private schools.

Or Parkway parents could continue to choose to send their kids to a school that is falling apart.

Yo, let's chill. This attitude was the same that landed MCPS before the Supreme Court, which it then lost and now owes millions in dollars.

If you are referring to the opt out lawsuit, I sided with the parents on that one. MCPS was stupid to fight over that. The opt out wasn't going to cost taxpayers millions, so MCPS was stupid to fight it.

Option H, oth, would save taxpayers millions. Up thread, someone said Clarksburg fought the boundary change and lost. So, there is already precedent of MCPS winning boundary lawsuits.

[Anonymous]

You are never guaranteed a specific school when you bought your house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

Or, Parkway parents could accept a brand new HS and not waste taxpayer money via a lawsuit against the school district for making the most fiscally responsible decision based on the current situation.

Or Parkway parents could send their kids to private schools.

Or Parkway parents could continue to choose to send their kids to a school that is falling apart.

Yo, let's chill. This attitude was the same that landed MCPS before the Supreme Court, which it then lost and now owes millions in dollars.

Same attitude that got the Clarksburg lawsuit dismissed with prejudice.

Boundary changes are always going to make some people upset and upset people with some extra money will hire a lawyer. If they file the case, we'll see what their claims are and they'll have their day in court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The board could vote for the option that opens crown as a new school and doesnt relocate wootton. then there wouldnt be the lawsuits.

Based on the presentation (Slide 43), the cost for opening Crown as a new school while keeping Wootton open would be $9 million per year.

That seems like enough money for MCPS to be willing to fight a lawsuit they'll view as baseless.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DS4PEU644E2C/$file/Supt%20Rec%20Secondary%20Prog%20Analysis%20Boundary%20Studies%20260312%20PPT%20REV.pdf