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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the City of Rockville's proposal?

Why does a Senator's support matter for a local decision? [/quote]

The Rockville proposal is that Crown is a holding school as MCPS rebuilds Wootton and Magruder.

So, option H is basically in place for the first 5 years (Wootton temporarily moves into Crown, Wootton gets rebuilt).

Then Wootton moves back to the current location, Magruder kids come in and the local Crown kids stay in Crown. Magruder gets rebuilt and then a boundary study is done to move a permanent student body into Crown.

It's acceding to the reality that Wootton's building is in such poor repair with no funding to fix it that the kids will need to be in Crown by 2027 and trying to tie MCPS' hands to make it a temporary move.

I'm doubtful it'll be considered because MCPS will want the flexibility of moving Wootton and then seeing the budgetary and enrollment landscape before making a decision.[/quote]
We do not need another HS given the declining enrollment.

Wootton is falling a part.
Crown is brand new and almost done building.

In the hybrid model, after all the HS have eventually been repaired, and enrollment has declined, all of the neighboring HS will be way under capacity. That is a waste of taxpayer money.   MCPS, and the county (and the Senator) should be better stewards of our tax dollars and not waste it because some parents don't want their kids to take a bus to a brand new HS.

Politicians are very shortsighted to get votes.  But, in the long term, having another HS with declining enrollment is wasting taxpayer money in a county that already has high tax rates and is losing more and more revenue each year.[/quote]

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