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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Copilot says:

[quote]Under Maryland state law, the process for closing a public school involves several steps to ensure that the decision is made fairly and transparently. The local board of education must consider various factors before making a decision to close a school. These factors include student enrollment trends, the age or condition of school buildings, transportation, educational programs, racial composition of the student body, financial considerations, student relocation, and the impact on the community in the geographic attendance area for the school proposed to be closed and the schools to which students will be relocating.

The process includes a public hearing to allow citizens to submit their views, adequate notice to parents and guardians of students in attendance at all schools being considered for closure, and a final decision announced at a public session. The final decision must include the rationale for the school closing and address the impact on the factors set forth in the regulation. Additionally, the decision must be announced to the community in the geographic attendance area of the school proposed to be closed and the schools to which students will be relocating.[/quote]

It feels like they have done all this except they didn't use the word closure, which makes sense since they are opening the school in a different building.

The Save Wootton people are wasting their money but at least they are helping some lawyers make a nice living.

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They haven’t done any of this, and certainly not with the intention of evaluating whether or not Wootton should close because MCPS won’t even call it a closure [/quote]

Because it's not a closure, it's a relocation (student body staying mostly the same, school administration and teachers staying the same, the only change is a change in building), unless you have a specific definition in the law that says this is actually a closure.

Otherwise, the filing wouldn't have to argue that it's a "de-facto" closure.[/quote]1 ES removed and 2 ES added in a different building with a different name in a different city with many new teachers and staff.  In other words, it's closing a school and opening a new one by any definition except the one used by people who desperately want to destroy the W schools.[/quote]

That was part of the boundary study.

Unless you want to argue that Northwest was closed because they had 2 new ES added.

Also, are you also arguing that because admins and teachers leave, that's somehow a closure? My ES has had 3 principals, is each time a closure?[/quote]I'm saying it's a different student body in a different building with a different name in a different city with many new teachers and staff.  Quite literally everything is changing.  The only people pretending it's not a closure are east county W school haters.[/quote]

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