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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good.  Now if they could add in also not rebuilding an aging high school and using Crown instead once it has been used as a holding school to rebuild one less than originally planned aging high schools.  We do not need another high school to pay to operate during declining enrollment and it makes sense to not renovate a decrepit current high school when there is an available new school.  MCPS needs to be consolidating schools and closing the most underutilized/in disrepair not expanding.  The more old schools in need of massive repair that can be closed with students attending underutilized in better repair nearby schools, the better for the fiscal future of MCPS.  [/quote]

Well just move Wootton there, no need to renovate Wootton then [/quote]

I am a Wootton parent and I have been shouting this but I don't think it will happen. Just close the school. It needs a full demolish and rebuild and I don't think we need both. [/quote]

Glad to see others jumping aboard this train. Probably why Wootton is last of the three given much of its current area except perhaps Travilah and Cold Spring are very close to Crown and even those two aren’t terribly further.

If the population/enrollment does in fact decline as projected, which I have no doubt that it will, then there’s no need for another high school and Crown should not have been built in the first place which is what I’ve been saying since April.

The Crown study schools alone would have nearly 4000 extra seats. That’s not to mention the Woodward study schools or the other none study schools. We could be looking at excess capacity across the county of 5-10k seats. At that point it’d be fiscally irresponsible to replace Wootton and given Crowns proximity to Wootton, it’d make sense to populate Crown with most of Wootton coupled with the nearby Crown areas.

Wootton’s current building could be renovated at a smaller scale to fix the worst parts of it and possibly use it as a MS holding school. Should its need arise in the future a la Woodward it can be rebuilt.

I’ll add that I’ve also said QO needs replacement in the next 15-20 years as well.

It’d be far better to replace QO and add to it, than replace Wootton and need to do the same to QO down the road.

QO is in a better location not as close to other schools as Wootton is. Crown was a bad choice to locate a new high school. Which made Woottons location already somewhat close to RM, Churchill and to a lesser extent Rockville and QO.[/quote]

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