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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The education at Wootton is top notch right now.  Fix the existing Wootton building and/or put temporary classrooms until a full renovation can happen in 2035.  This is far preferable to a wholesale lift-and-shift that undermines the neighborhoods that have fed into Wootton for 50+ years.[/quote]

Is there a reason that you think the education would no longer be top notch in a new building? Is it maybe because that new building might include more Black and Brown people? Please just say what you really mean because the argument that students and staff should risk their health in unsafe buildings or spend a decade or more in portable classrooms rather than move to a spectacular new facility seems disingenuous.

Moreover, did you know that there is no plan for Wootton to be renovated in 2035? That was the earliest that it was speculated to be able to happen IF A) the BOE voted to renovate it and IF B) there were money to do so in 10 years.

In summary, your current options are: 1) unsafe building with no fixes but the same "diversity" which you seem to like or 2) a top notch, to use your term, facility where you are perhaps joined by "diversity" you don't like.

Tell me again what your choice is and why? Be honest this time. [/quote]

I don't know if the projected numbers of Blacks/Browns are going to be as much as you or the previous poster is thinking or implying.

Based on the Option H Effects tables the changes would be:

% Black/African American: 11.8->13
% Asian: 44.2->43.1
% Hispanic: 9->9.6
% White: 28.6->28.2
% 2 or more races: 6.1->5.9
% FARMS: 14->14.8
% EML: 3.1->3.3

So the largest change is like 2.6% so out of 1999 students, like 40 additional Black/Brown students in a whole school?

Option H isn't really helping anything, ie spread out demographics, overcrowding at schools, etc.  And the only issue it's really solving is Wootton's aging building.

This is all of course assuming that MCPS's forecasts in option H are accurate.

I thought some of the rationale that previous poster mentioned might've been kind of off or I had a different point of view of.  But I saw them more talking about the change in proximity of the schools rather then changing demographics.[/quote]

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