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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t homes in Crown far more expensive?[/quote]

Hence the Crown families are eager to bring the Wootton families to Crown.

The Churchill people don't want to go to Wootton because they see it as a downgrade.

Similar to how some Wootton families don't trust that the school will maintain it's same academic standing with the move.

Then the Crown/Rosemont island people don't want their kids to go to Gaithersburg HS.

So there is a bit of classism going on and it's going on at different levels.

With the Wootton families, remember it's not just academic performance but also stability.  Where sure the enrollment numbers currently show there's a decline in enrollment.  But what happens when enrollment goes back up?  Richard Montgomery and Bayard were both opened at over capacity and have portables right?  So that should show confidence in the projections from MCPS.  So they have empty school building on Wootton Parkway and reopen and some of the previous areas that fed into Wootton would stay at Crown.  Those families that have to stay at Crown probably won't be at a bad school.  But it won't be the third top school in the state.

This is why a lot of Wootton families are questioning the data and input for question H and want more information on it before anything is finalized.  But in a lot of ways it seems like MCPS revealed option H at the 11th hour with questionable data.

And this is why Wootton families are asking for MCPS to slowdown and show proof behind the data before making irreversible decisions.[/quote]

hearing so much about wootton's current state, I am highly doubting this claim of 3rd top school in the state? How can it be that high when they don't have functioning science labs? Do they just bypass all the MCPS curriculum that's done at QO, RM, NW etc? No bunson burners? seems like they could be measuring things inaccurately. sus. [/quote]

Rankings are typically mostly based on test scores, which are generally largely a result of the demographics of the student body.  Doesn't tell you much about the teachers, classes, or facilities (other than that they didn't screw up the advantage of having a student body who came in largely primed to excel on tests already.)
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Oh but they can impact your property values which is what many H opponents really care about. They are having a visceral reaction to having strategically chosen to buy a certain house at a certain price so it would be assigned to a certain high school and now it will be assigned to a different high school. They aren't sure if their property value will hold and that is upsetting.[/quote]

A home purchase is the largest one people will make in their lives. Giving the community less than 2 months (really only 1 month with the holidays) to provide input, then essentially ignoring that input because a decision had been made a year earlier, is absolutely grounds to be upset about a decline in the value of one’s home.

Test scores and school rankings take decades to establish, stay stable for many years, and any decline takes decades.

MCPS is transplanting Wootton to Crown because it wants to give it an instant reputation- why else would it transfer the Wootton name if over 40% of the new student body isn’t from historical Wootton. Families would have far less of a problem if the boundary was changed only to allow Wootton a brand new building- not to add 40% more kids. This would be consistent with MCPS’ stated desire to provide a safe building and save money by not renovating Wootton. Likewise, Wootton would have room to grow and the new developments in Rockville would attract new families wanting to attend Wootton  But this is about Gaithersburg grabbing a W school away from Rockville, along with the tax revenue from families wanting to live close to Wootton @ Crown.

And before anyone says that would mean Wootton would be an under enrolled school, Taylor’s Woodward recommendation leaves WJ at 77% utilization.[/quote]

Home values are not going to decline. That is absurd. But even if they did, it is not MCPS's job to prop up property values that are held up by racism.[/quote]

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