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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a blatant misrepresentation of what occurred and the author of this piece knows it. If you were watching that meeting, Mrs. Montoya spoke at great length about the current magnet system upholding systemic racism and frankly, seemed entirely disinterested in the boundary portion of the vote itself. When it came time for the vote, it was abundantly clear that Montoya was referencing the vote to uphold the current standard which historically has had minimal levels of participation from students who are not Asian or White. Please stop bullshitting and making this into something it is not, Ms. Sukhobok.[/quote]

Thanks for weighing in Rita, but your hot mic comment stands for itself  - that was a really honest moment for you.[/quote]

Comments don’t stand for themselves, context always matters[/quote]
The context is that she was saying Asian American parents are racist for not wanting to send their kids further away to Crown HS.

FWIW, I support H, but I don't support what Montoya said.  I'll be voting against her next time.  Racism has no place in MCPS, right?[/quote]

DP.  Poor choice on her part to mutter that, but most clearly, given the context of the lead-up remarks and the ongoing inability of the save-Wootton community to articulate a rationale that benefitted all of MoCo rather than their community by itself (suggesting that Crown being holding or hybrid was good for Gaithersburg was laughable), she was saying they were racist [i]for not wanting to have their children's school also draw from Gaithersburg.[/i][/quote]

Rita made an assumption perhaps, as do you, that Wootton parents don't want to send their students to school with students from Gaithersburg. Maybe they just want to preserve their neighborhood high school that is nearer to their homes, for their students to attend.[/quote]

That assumption was not made in a void, as there were vocal elements of those protesting H, especially at the community-held meetings, who made it very clear that they did not want Gaithersburg students at their school.  Not everyone, and certainly there were plenty with a legitimate gripe about shifting location from their own existing walkability, but the commentary, Rita's and above, was more clearly in regard to that first group.

Even those with the legitimate gripe had a difficult time presenting it in such a way as to take into account needs beyond their immediate neighborhoods -- facility condition (vs. budgetary constraint) that was more important than location to many existing Wootton stakeholders, the equivalent needs of those walkable to the Crown location, the general facility needs (given academic viability along with the aforementioned budgetary constraint) of the Gaithersburg community in relation to that of the others impacted by drawing new boundaries, etc.[/quote]

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