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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton? [/quote]

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement.  Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process. 
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Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.[/quote]

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.
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Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools![/quote]

MCPS better have a lot of it.  Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this.  Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing.  A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions.  Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it.  Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.[/quote]

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved. [/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️[/quote]

No plausible legal complaint has been provided.[/quote]

That you know of lol. Do you expect the legal notice to be delivered to you personally at your home address instead of the BOE, Taylor, and OGC?[/quote]

They've provided their argument- it is just wrong. There no requirement for impact taxes to be spent in the same place. UPP taxes are a little different, but Gaithersburg/QO/Wootton/Crown are adjacent schools.[/quote]

That’s literally nowhere close to the legal argument 🤣 but nice try.[/quote]

That's the generous version of their legal argument. What they've actually said was even more wrong. Impact taxes are not tied to cities.[/quote]

I can’t speak to the Churchill lawsuit. I can tell you that the Wootton lawsuit has literally nothing to do with taxes. Agree that sounds beyond asinine. [/quote]

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