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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wootton needs to stop the drama.  Wootton families said the building is unsafe.  MCPS listened and gave them a new building.  Be grateful.[/quote]

MCPS created the drama. Wootton doesn’t want Crown. Give it to Magruder as a holding school so it can get its badly needed renovation of an even more unsafe building done ASAP. MCPS can always transplant Wootton to Crown later if that’s what enrollment projections really support. What’s the rush?[/quote]

Some of Wootton doesn't want Crown. Some of Wootton wants out of the unsafe Wootton building and is happy with Crown. [/quote]

Problem is, we don't really know how the split breaks. Doing so would require a survey, and who has time for that? Survey of Wootton parents' appetite for being relocated should've been done when the Boundary Study was happening all of last year. But oh well, MCPS blew that and instead suprised parents and got to find out in a chaotic, real-time manner, the response to their unanticipated proposal.[/quote]

Honestly, Wootton's parents' appetite for being relocated isn't really relevant.  Boundary changes are always contentious because few people want 'change,' whatever that change is.  If they did surveys of parents whose kids are affected the responses would always be "no."  MCPS's job isn't to make every parent happy.  It's to make hard decisions that are good for the county as a whole and can be sustained for decades.  I'm sympathetic to a pp who suggested they could use Crown as a holding school for a few years and postpone the decision to see how demographics work out, but I'm sure one of their priorities is to make a decision now that can be keep things constant for 20 years or so, as predictability and consistency is valuable in its own right.  [/quote]

It would be relevant to gauge the intensity of pushback and ensure the thoroughness and collaboration needed to minimize fighting by communicating directly, fairly and in a manner that allowed for understanding to be developed between the system and the community.

Even if you believe Option H is the right decision, which it might be, the way MCPS dropped it on the Wootton community out of thin air was at best inconsiderate, and at worst, disrespectful.[/quote]

Inconsiderate and disrespectful are reasons you break up with a guy, not sue a school system. [/quote]

Depends on the level of community and attachment that exists in the school community the system is attempting to disturb and disrupt. Which again, a survey might've revealed if MCPS wanted to be thoughtful about it.[/quote]

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