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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids. [/quote]

If you are so passionate about this why aren’t you pushing for This to happen at Whitman, which is way less diverse than Wootton. Or do you only care about it happening at Wootton and nowhere else? Why do you think that is?[/quote]

I’m confused - can you be direct? I think it’s pretty clear they care about Wootton because they are probably in that cluster. What are you insinuating is the reason they don’t care about anywhere else?[/quote]

Because pp gave a whole history of segregation lesson focusing on Wootton being the biggest problem with this. Yet, There are other schools within the cluster that are far less diverse. Not sure how that wasn’t clear or direct. [/quote]

The issue about Crown is that they don’t want other students entering the school that they perceive as less.  They use high scores as a reason but that’s not it or they would remove all the low preforming students at the school.  [/quote]

DP. If this is truly a move of Wootton, then no students not zoned for Wootton as the boundaries are today should attend Crown. But that isn’t what is happening. MCPS is moving the boundaries at the same time, essentially closing Wootton as it is today.  
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Changing boundaries happens somewhat regularly. It isn't considered closing a school. Would it somehow be better to move the school and then change the boundaries a year or two later?

[quote]MCPS took years to perform a series of Wootton boundary studies, received significant community input, held numerous hearings over time, etc.  Again, that isn’t what is happening. MCPS is trying to ramp through Option H, despite significant opposition. One has to ask - what’s the hurry?[/quote]

The hurry is that a new building is about to open, and how that building is used has long-term implications for the district. There isn't a good way to create more time for a decision unless we want to have an empty building for a year.

Yes, it sucks that it is coming up at the last minute. It probably should have come up before. But the reality is that we've seen several shifts in the last 1-2 years that support this option. Decreasing enrollment and falling development permits and projections. Greater budget problems with little apparent public support for increased funding. Regional instability due to federal leadership.

[quote]The hurry seems to be that MCPS wants to move the Wootton students into Crown by the time it opens in the fall of 2027. That way, Crown is filled with high performing students (i.e., transplant, not organic growth) and MCPS avoids the embarrassment in using yet another brand new school building as a holding school. [/quote]

How are holding schools "embarrassments"? They're sometimes the only way to accommodate students through construction projects.

[quote]MCPS had to build a school or lose the Crown land, but one has to wonder why the Crown developers offered such a valuable piece of property for free. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to determine that both MCPS and those developers were eyeing Wootton for transplant. Why else was Wootton removed from the CIP multiple times over the past several years?[/quote]

You can't be serious... Were you paying attention at all when the Crown development was proposed?

[quote]MCPS can change boundaries and build new schools, but it cannot use Wootton kids as mere trading cards to cover up its incompetence and possible corruption. [/quote]

That's not what's happening. But some Wootton parents think that they somehow deserve special treatment compared to all the other students and taxpayers in the county.
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Shout out to this poster for not only the amazing spot on arguments or points made but for also knowing how to break out the post like that :)

You took the words right out of my mouth!

Signed, 
the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton parent that comes in and out of this conversation that is very much FOR Option H[/quote]
This must be a troll pretending to be a cold spring parent. Cold spring probably has the strongest opposition to option H as they’re the farthest to crown and could be squeezed out to RM because of modified option H. I’ve met many cold spring parents and none supports option H [/quote]

Indeed. Nobody with those school assignments would be so enthusiastic.

Also, the response was terrible and didn’t refute with much in the way of substance. [/quote]

Maybe I should try and give more substance for you. I can't find my previous posts but like lI said I come and go from this thread.

Option H makes the most fiscal sense. Crown is brand new and Wootton needs to be redone completely. Everything in there is gross. We also do not have the capacity to justify two brand new schools. So the obvious solution is to close one and use the other. Most Cold Spring kids get driven to Wootton. We will drive a bit further....that is all....not understanding the issue. I get it that the Fallsmead families that were walking may be annoyed but even they should understand that these things happen. [/quote]

“These things happen” are you joking? This is not normal. it’s not a normal everyday occurrence to close a school and move to a new one. How could you possibly act like it’s a typical thing that happens all the time?[/quote]

Nobody said every day but it happens....let me say it again....in our county alone Northwood and Woodward are examples[/quote]

Our elementary school and HS has changed in the last 20 years. [/quote]

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