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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

What about the Gaithersburg families from FRES, Rosemont, and others who have been planning to go to Crown for 20 years? Do they not matter? [b]Or should they just be part of a hybrid school forever?[/b] MCPS has to think about the entire population and equity and this situation allows for a stable and safe school for everyone for the long term. [/quote]

The hybrid proposal is a fever dream from Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman. It is not being considered seriously by MCPS.

Either Wootton moves there or Crown becomes a holding school. Problem is, if it becomes a holding school, the only high school slated for a rebuild in the current CIP is Damascus.[/quote]

Yeah I’d imagine Wootton building is used as a holding school for HVAC projects as 2027-2028 maybe not in the fall but in the spring. For a school to be there for one semester to redo HVAC vs over 2-3 summers makes a heck of a lot of sense.[/quote]

They cannot do it over a few summers.  School gets out late June and come mid August the school is open for staff, sports, marching band and more.   That’s six weeks for less. [/quote]

Right Taylor and others have said in recent meetings that HVAC projects often are done over multiple years ONLY during the summers like they do part of a high school in summer 2025 then in summer 2026 they do another part, and finish it summer 2027, so they need 18-22 weeks and could simply do that from late June to December if students were off site at a holding school, speeding up the project timeline and costs because you don’t need to deal with cost increases for 2-3 years.[/quote]

This is also their argument for why option H is also better for Magruder. The holding school can help MCPS save a bunch of money on current CIP projects and hopefully allow them to reallocate funding to Magruder sooner. [/quote]

Actually, Crown would be better for Magruder. If Wootton is so unsafe, why force Magruder kids to go there?  And if you’re going to remediate it, why move Wootton to Crown?  Remediating Wootton sometime in the future only delays Magruder’s renovation - likely for many years. [/quote]

You don’t care about Magruder and desperate.  Let it go.  Adjust. [/quote]

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