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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]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. [/b]

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]

Technically, Dufief, Travilah and Stone Mill may be closer to Crown HS than to Wootton HS. If they split Wootton like this by rezoning, pull out some to Crown and take some in to Wootton, both Crown HS and Wootton HS exist may work. I am sure Dufief would be fine with this option since they are not alone.

I would say when they build so many houses all over everywhere in MoCo, rezoning is unavoidable. [/quote]

Yeah, I was looking at the map, that seems to be the case.  Seems like Wootton should be folded into the Rockville System(s) for the families that are actually in Rockville.

It is really disingenuous to take families in Rockville, who are paying to Rockville taxes for Rockville amenities and ship them 3 miles away to Gaithersburg.

Pretty simple, take the outer county residents who bought into car commuting, send them to Crown their only issue is likely demographics.  They knew what they were signing up for before they bought when it comes to car commuting.  Leave the ones in Rockville at Wootton, fix the school with the light attendance, then rebalance Wootton, Richard Montgomery and Rockville High School as necessary.[/quote]
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Rockville high school isn’t even a part of the discussion. Also it’s no where near  any of the neighborhoods in question. [/quote]

Yes, it is all the affected neighborhoods would be in Rockville.  You would need to rebalance the schools.  RM is overcrowded and RHS is near capacity so it would make sense if they ended up back filling Wootton with a generally westward migration.  RHS->RM->Wootton then a northward migration Wootton-> crown, but only in the outer county areas like Travilah.[/quote]

Do you know how this works? Clearly not. [/quote]

I like that idea though. The Wootton walkers are happy because they get the location and that’s clearly the only thing they care about. The more open-minded parts of the cluster go to the new school. Those are backfilled with overflow from RMHS and RHS who would be happy to go to Wootton (though it wouldn’t be “Wootton” anymore). Sounds like a win-win to me. [/quote]

Wootton cannot have those students join their school as Wootton parents think they are inferior. [/quote]

They have to pick a lane and they have already abandoned half their cluster who contributed to its reputation.  You want the dumpy school on Wootton parkway? Then you risk boundaries being changed around you. But you can walk! [/quote]

So you want the boundaries to make no geographical sense whatsoever? Clearly a fan of bussing kids. RM makes sense to redistrict some to Wootton. The neighborhoods that feed to RHS are too far away for it to make sense. They would pass two high schools on the way-which is the whole problem with this boundary study in the first place. If they just redraw all the boundaries when Crown opens they can make all the boundaries make more sense. [/quote]

Yes that’s what I want. I want boundaries to make absolutely no sense and for kids to be bussed to Timbuktu and back. If we’re making assumptions, I assume you are in Wootton’s walk zone. Where a three-mile bus ride is “nonsensical” and once again proof of self-interest. How dare you take umbrage with “bussing” when everyone but you already busses to Wootton!!!! So obtuse. And one of woottons feeder schools drives past frost to get to cabin John. It is already happening. Maybe you all take a turn for once and stop thinking you’re the only neighborhood impacted by this. [/quote]

That’s why i’m saying the boundaries need to be redrawn-because the kids shouldn’t be passing one school to get to another one. That was kind of my whole point that you seemed to have missed. All the moco boundaries need to be redrawn-not just the ones on the boundary study. [/quote]

What does it matter? Particularly once you get out of the walk zone. [b]There's no reason to limit things to the closest schools. That just leads people to not care about the quality of the district as a whole[/b].[/quote]

Seriously? Then maybe we should bus some Gaithersburg and RHS students to Wootton. That will be caring about the district as a whole and improving the diversity in Wootton.

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First: Wootton is actually one of the most diverse schools in the county. O wait are you not counting Asians as diverse? Not the right kind of minority for you? Are we supposed to or not supposed to see color?

Second: For the love of god, moving high performing kids around doesn’t actually solve education issues at their root. Maybe instead of wasting god knows how much money on bussing and boundary studies, we tackle the root issue of increasing the education performance at lower performing schools? [/quote]

So, leave the high performing kids in your failing building and any low performers can go to Crown since only high performers are welcome at Wootton.  [/quote]

I see we’re back to the whole high performing means we should hate on Wootton. Does this mean you anti-Wootton folks have given up and realized option H is illegal? [/quote]

No it means you are obsessed with only high performers so the mid to low performers should be moved to other schools as they are not welcome.  We are a kind school. We will take them. [/quote]

There is nothing wrong with wanting your child to go to a school that historically turns out high test scores. And there’s nothing wrong with wanting to preserve that and its history, either. What is wrong is not supporting one of the options that were offered and instead creating your own. What is wrong is not even considering the option that would keep the entire cluster together, and hence theoretically, its high performance. Staying on Wootton Parkway is the priority. It is insane. Performance could be even higher in the beautiful new school with all of its new resources.

There is no hate here for Wootton. I’m an alum (and actually remember the traffic turning out of that school and getting off of the one lane Parkway was horrendous).  But you’re not seeing the forest through the trees and instead are passing up a really nice offer. Smells like entitlement.[/quote]

You do know that the school is being combined with GHS students correct? So why would you think its performance would be even higher?  GHS is the lowest performing school in the country with an abysmal graduation rate. and no, even if it wasn’t being combined (which it is-that’s a fact) the students will have to get up so much earlier than they already do just to get to school on time. And you think that will increase their performance when they are all exhausted now that their school is 30+ minutes away??[/quote]

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