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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I was reading something from someone regarding Wootton today and it made it sound like they really believe Wootton is "closing"... are they the exception or are there really a significant number of people who genuinely consider this an actual closure (despite how obviously untrue that is)?

I kind of just assumed that the Wootton people have been using dramatic "our school is closing!!!" language because they don't like the location swap and want to keep Wootton in the original building that they can walk to, and figure that pretending it's a closure will serve those goals.

But there's no way any reasonable person could actually confuse a location change with a school closure, could they?

I thought that was just dramatic language to try to get their way because they don't want [/quote]

Some of it is motivated reasoning; Maryland state regulations, COMAR, have specific rules and procedures that have to be followed if a school is closed. If they can convince a judge that this is a closure, then MCPS and the BoE didn't follow those procedures and maybe they can reverse it. That's why the filing has the words "de facto closing" because they know it doesn't fit the definition of an actual school closing.

Some of it is also probably just semantics; they are essentially closing the building for regular students, although I think the community can continue to rent out the building. There's a Chinese School that rents out the building on Sunday and I'm sure there's other rental uses.

And then there are the people who think that adding Fields Roads and increasing FARMS from 14 to 19% is a plot by MCPS to destroy a W school.[/quote]

The same building you said was unsafe.  [/quote]

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