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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What should have been done that wasn’t done? [/quote]

Direct, fulsome answers/responses to [i]all[/i] of the pointed, nuanced questions asked/issues raised (not just the ones hand picked as easily addressable by gatekeeping moderators),

With all questions/issues and corresponding answers/responses made public for fully informed stakeholder consideration,

With public access to the data/map [i]construction[/i] tools used by MCPS/the consultant such that any variation could be equivalently presented for BOE consideration (if they so chose),

With timing to allow for all of that.[/quote]

If Taylor admitted the current Wootton building would be closed until MCPS finds the money, it would be game over as a school closure because MCPS has to move the boundaries to relocate Wootton’s students to Crown. [/quote]

The building is unsafe.[/quote]

Did MCPS declare it so?[/quote]

Wootton parents said so which is why they are closing the building.[/quote]

So you believe Wootton parents when it suits you, but you don’t when it doesn’t. Got it. [/quote]

Yes, we believe them when they say the physical building is not safe.  That's why they got so lucky to be given a new building.[/quote]

So you believe them when they say that they want remediation of the current building and don’t want the new building?

So you believe them when they say that if Wootton’s current building will be used as a holding school, they should be allowed to stay?

So you believe them when they say that Magruder kids deserve to use Crown as a holding school while their far more unsafe school is renovated?[/quote]

The question of whether a school is safe or not is pretty matter of fact. Everything else you’ve mentioned (except for Magruder being unsafe) is, on the other hand, about what specific communities desire. We can believe you want that, sure, but we don’t have to have the same desire as you. [/quote]

So if Wootton parents have claimed their school is unsafe for many years, and you believe that claim as a matter of indisputable fact, why was Wootton taken off the CIP three different times (even before MCPS broke ground on Crown)?  Such dire conditions couldn’t have waited years for Crown to be built (for someone else). They also can’t wait for Crown to be finished and opened in fall 2027. Remediation must happen right now. Then again, that would remove the primary impetus for Taylor to close Wootton and move its kids to Crown in order to fill a school that shouldn’t have been built. [/quote]

Have you ever read the annexation agreement with Crown and the history there? MCPS would be crazy to not do what was agreed upon to have the Crown site for a school. The cost to have that land and funds towards the school through impact taxes… no smart leaders wohkd have ever turned that down. There seem to be timelines against when the school needed to be built and opened as well.

All that to say, things change in 20 years and you gotta keep adjusting the strategy. So here we are! And then we do it again in 10, 20 years. Nothing is final in life. [/quote]

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