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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big winner in this situation will be private schools. Parents who are unhappy with the new school boundaries, and are affluent enough to do so, will simply send their kids to private schools.  Unfortunately not everyone can afford that.  Some families will end up in a less desirable academic situation with no ability to buy their way out.  Montgomery county will have one less top rated school.  [/quote]

It’s so interesting cus they want to destroy it but they also love to publish it as a top rated school. Make it make sense.[/quote]

Yawn. [/quote]

This PP doesn’t care about the loss of a top school because s/he doesn’t live in Wootton.

MCPS wants to lift and shift Wootton kids to Crown, then change the name of Crown to Wootton in order to continue to trade on its reputation as a top school. This is what the developers around Crown want too because they can sell their townhomes at top dollar to gullible buyers. Why do you think the land for Crown (prime real estate) was given to MCPS for free?

Seems like the seeds for Option H were planted years ago, coupled with removing Wootton from the CIP and building neglect to encourage Wootton families to accept Crown.  This would move the “Wootton” boundaries to where MCPS wanted them years ago through boundary studies but which Wootton parents strongly opposed.  [b]It would also cover up the risk of under enrollment at Crown and save $100M+ in renovation costs for the current Wootton building [/b](which could be funneled into other pet projects).

MCPS doesn’t see Option H as a loss of a top school. It’s a win for them on multiple fronts. [/quote]

The bolded is not a bd thing.  It is sound fiscal management.[/quote]

But it's imaginary. There are currently no funds budgeted for Wootton renovation, so there are no savings by not renovating. It's like me saying, "on second thought, I'm not going to buy a Porsche. I'll use the money elsewhere." What money? I wasn't planning on buying a Porsche and didn't have any money budgeted for one anyway. You can't "save" money that you weren't planning to spend. That's not fiscal management. It's just make believe. I mean, we could all be billionaires if accounting actually worked like that - I saved $50 million this year when I didn't buy a private island. Guess I'm set for retirement.[/quote]

So now we’re left with MCPS needing to fill up a school that was already committed to GHS and its feeders?  [/quote]

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