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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I initially was open to my kids going to Crown.

I thought that since it would pull more from the QO area, it would be pretty much like QO, which I'm okay with.

My main issue was that if they removed bus service for our neighborhood for Wootton HS, my kids could've taken the Ride On bus to Wootton in about a ten or fifteen minute ride.  The only option for Crown from our neighborhood is to walk 40 minutes.

But looking at the area that is designated for Crown, which I think is the Fields Road Elementary School area, I don't think Crown HS is set up for success.

That townhome community in front of Fields Road Elementary is very affordable and I was seriously considering it when shopping for my first home.  The townhome community across Diamondback, behind the newer townhomes and by Green Park, were more expensive enough that it was out of my price range.  I think it was like $250k for the homes by the school and $350k for the homes by Green Park.  In the end I determined that those homes were cheaper for a reason (they were smaller, had funny quirks to how they were designed and built, etc).  So decided to look elsewhere.

And it's not just that specific townhome community that I'm targeting and why I'm turned off about Crown.  It's that entire area has the more lower priced housing.  The apartments behind Festival shopping center, the areas in between Fields and Festival, etc.

I didn't understand the previous comment about how QO would become a better school in this process.  But understand now.  So not only does Wootton get "stronger" with Wayside moving in.  But QO does as well with the addition by subtraction of removing Fields Road ES and the possibility of areas from Wootton added to it as well.

btw looking at the homes sold in the past year in the Stone Mill neighborhood, without digging into the details, the townhomes sold for about $600k and the single family homes sold for about a million.

The only kind of hope that Crown HS has is if that Crown development has enough of a premium for that urban style living and being new, that higher income families choose to live there over other places they could have afforded.

Are we certain that these options aren't actually anti DEI and trying to segregate more?

So I don't think Crown HS is set up for success and I am not okay with the idea of my kids going there anymore.  For reference, I wouldn't have minded my kids going to Northwest or Clarksburg and often wonder if we should've considered those areas more.  But the main issues for our family for those two areas are location and commute.[/quote]

It’s ironic that Crown is built to achieve their DEI agenda but it ends up achieving exactly the opposite. Capacity wise, MCPS has sufficient space. They could’ve just move part of Rachel Carson to Dufief (this was planned years ago but called off) to alleviate QO overcrowding and move part of RM/gaithersburg to Magruder/Sherwood. But they were so fixated on the opportunity to have large scale busing so here we are: an expensive new high school is being built with everyone paying more property taxes and income tax rate definitely increasing in the coming years, while a moldy old high school Wootton with asbestos gets indefinitely postpone on their decade overdue renovation project. [/quote]

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