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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Crown people were absolutely disgusting in the meeting tonight. “We paid taxes so you can’t take this school from us”. Basically they came across as screw the kids who are in Wootton and Magruder, we don’t care if they go to school in unsafe unsanitary dangerous to human health schools, we don’t care if it costs the county $400M more to redo Damascus, Wootton and Magruder, because heaven forbid our students who are actually in a safe school (Gaithersburg HS) or a not great but not terribly disgusting school (QO) can’t be inconvenienced. Cry me a river. I lost any sympathy I had for them tonight.

The solution is use Crown as a holding school to do Damascus, and then either:

A) redo boundaries to move all of Wootton to Crown along with the areas around Crown and shut Wootton. Simultaneously renovate Magruder on site.
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B) also use Crown as holding school for Magruder and then redo boundaries to move all of Wootton to Crown coupled with local Crown areas and shut down Wootton.

At some point they can rebuild Wootton if the demand exists.[/quote]

I have talked to a few Wootton families, and they tell me that they only want to use Crown HS as a temporary holding school,  and they don't want to turn a new Crown HS as a permanent Wootton HS because 1) it won't give them the same feeling as their own community school, and the location a bit far away, 2) they don't want other kids (aka poor neighborhood from gaithersburg) zoned to their school because because there will be a need of boundary rezone. I don't feel much sympathy for Wootton HS families. They first fought for them staying together without any families zoning to Crown HS or QO HS on the first boundary study, and they got their wishes. Now they move towards to fight for Crown HS become their temporary holding school. There have been a ton of link share post on Facebook, we chat and nextdoor or so. I hear that Damascus HS  or Magruder HS do need more fixes and repairs compared to them. Wootton HS families is in region 4, have better overall FARM rates compared to neighbor region 5 or region 6 school districts. They are privileged in some way already, and other HS should get a chance to get some mcps limited resources. [/quote]

You say “and they got their wishes” as if a discarded boundary option that you think favors the Wootton district counts for something. Between that and whining about privilege it is pretty clear you are not able to be objective or hold substantive opinions.[/quote]

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