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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crown never should have been built. [/quote]

Oh in that case I am going to go get my time machine, thank you![/quote]

Fine, let’s use Crown as a holding school. Taylor already has money to fix up and claims that he needs to operate Wootton as a holding school, so why move it or the Wootton boundaries at all?  Crown seems line the perfect place to use as a holding school. The excess capacity can be used for 5-10 years while other high schools are renovated and remediated, at which point Crown [b]will have grown it’s student population organically.[/b] [/quote]

That makes no sense. If they are going to use Crown as a high school after it is used as a holding school first, they will have to move kids from other high schools into. Children aren't literal plants that you can grow in a school by planting seeds in the football field.[/quote]

No, QO and GHS (plus other high schools in the Gaithersburg area) were promised Crown before Option H. Their overcrowding would have filled a significant number of spots at Crown. The remaining excess capacity would be used to hold students from Damascus and Magruder as each of those schools go through phased renovations (not all students red to be moved out).

Instead, Taylor is giving 2000 of the 2700 spots at Crown to Wootton kids, screwing QO and GHS kids (plus other high schools in the Gaithersburg area) by giving them only 700 spots at Crown. He did so because he claims he has no money to operate Wootton as a school building anymore(but he does because he wants to use it as a holding school instead of his shiny new Crown).

This is why there is almost universal opposition to Option H. [/quote]

A school that's partially a tiny regular high school and partially a holding school for an entirely different school?  How would that even work?[/quote]

Not a tiny regular school. The majority of Crown would be permanent students with the excess capacity used for portions of a high school undergoing phased renovation. Think about a 4-year renovation - each class year is moved individually and temporarily - that way, only a portion need transportation to the holding school (making it easier on families and school staff) and there is no wholesale uprooting of the entire student population (eg 2000+ kids)

A phased high school renovation is a construction approach that updates or expands a school in multiple stages while keeping the school operational. This method minimizes disruptions for students and staff by allowing parts of the school to be renovated at different times.
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