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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they do a total rezone just send Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill all to Crown. Dufief's main issue initially with A-D was that they were the only ones being pulled from the Wootton cluster and it was being done in a way that made no sense. If it's all three schools that are clearly closer to Crown than Wootton, have at it.

Also, it's becoming more and more obvious that Fallsmead/Lakewood care more about Wootton staying on the Parkway than keeping the cluster together. The North Potomac schools that don't really care about Option H have been quiet and going along with anti-H anyway, but now that it's clear no one cares about keeping them in the cluster hopefully they get more vocal about getting their kids into a safe school. Because this sudden change to "actually, we don't want repairs" doesn't help the kids.  [/quote]

As a family who was originally slated to go to Crown, I wouldn't be against this.

Our main two issues with some of the initial proposals were:
-MCPS proposed to split articulate some elementary schools between Crown and Wootton.  In one neighborhood they split the part with townhomes that range around $500k to Crown and the part with million dollar single family homes to Wootton.  In another neighborhood, they split out a fraction of the elementary school, which results in about five students per grade level, if even that, being separated from their elementary school classmates upon going to high school

-MCPS has those areas designated in a walking zone.  Where the walk is 40 minutes and along and across busy commuter routes.

If they take the entire elementary school for the area and maybe two or three other ones, it eliminates split articulation of schools and also still allows families to have the communities they thought they were buying into.  Crown wouldn't be a bad school if they did do this.  It would be kind of annoying that we could've just spent less money by originally buying with that type of school.  Look at Northwest.  They have that whole area around the soccerplex feeding into it.  And I can see Crown being similar to Northwest in that way.  But we could've just bought into Northwest and have a home that is twenty or thirty years newer and in a really nice community.

Looking at the walkshed vs walkzone table, not every high school is listed but the majority of the high schools listed do not have the full two mile radius as the full walking zone.  So for many schools the walk zone is a lot less than the walkshed.  The current Wootton location was actually one of the few ones that does have it's two mile radius used as the actual walking zone.  So I'm somewhat comfortable/or hope that MCPS would establish a safe walking zone to Crown HS and provide bus service where necessary.

Don't get me wrong, my first choice is to remain at Wootton and at where it currently is.  It's something that we purposely decided to pay the price differential when deciding between different homes.  We looked all over the area.  But it wouldn't the end of the world for us if they rezoned us, along with our entire elementary school and neighboring schools , and provide bus service where appropriate.[/quote]

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