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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes - the Wootton cluster is finally getting worked up.  Hopefully it is not too late.

With regard to your almighty Churchill comments:  You are exactly right.  Churchill is unified and they take pride in their school.  They are defending Wayside and Potomac.   Perhaps Wootton can stick together in the same way?

The only approach that will work is to fight to keep Wootton, fully as Wootton (that is what the almighty Churchill would do).   You start compromising on the name, and jettisoning elementary schools and we are headed for closure.  [/quote]

Part of the issue was that Churchill had only one maybe two schools in question and it was all mostly the same goal.

Wootton is dealing with an entire cluster, with the feeder schools at different locations relative to the new Crown site and the current Wootton site.  Since the area is broader, the range of what people are supporting or opposing is broader too.  When the question used to be just one or two schools, the Wootton cluster did circle the wagons and insist on keeping all of it's schools.  It's one of the things that some posters are saying the Wootton cluster whined about.[/quote]

Exactly. No other school or cluster has been threatened with closure. What makes Wootton different? It’s the one mcps school with the most amount of Asians kids. [b]As this thread shows, Asians kids aren’t diverse. Guess they are white? [/b]Asian kids according to this thread can also be used as tools to increase test scores.

O wait that’s why this is a civil rights issue. [/quote]

Do you even understand what diverse means? Diverse doesn't equal minority - it means a variety.

So yes, Wootton is not diverse since majority are White and Asian.

Same with QO - the majority is White and Hispanic.

Same with Gaithersburg - majority Hispanic and Black.

All these schools need other races.

Wootton needs to have more Black and Hispanic QO needs more Asians and Black
Gaithersburg needs more White and Asians

That will make these schools diverse.

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It’s unfortunate that people rarely point their fingers at the truly wealthy schools that lack diversity, like Whitman and Churchill. Instead, Wootton becomes the easy target[/quote]

Because this person probably lives in one of those clusters.

A lot of posters don’t seem to understand that this is literally how it is all over the country. This isn’t an MCPS or a MD thing. People go to a school that represents their neighborhoods. People move to neighborhoods typically-considering what school their kids will go to. You can’t say “you buy a neighborhood not a school” because that’s simply not reality-anywhere. Home prices and locations are very very influenced by schools. Again-not just here-everywhere. And just because it may make a school less diverse in whatever direction-you can’t go and take those kids from their neighborhood school to bus them to a school that’s no longer representative of where they bought and not expect to get push back. [/quote]

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