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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I find so disheartening in this thread and the anti-H ranting is how pervasive conspiracy-theory mindsets are, and how they completely hijack discussions on the merits of an issue. Instead of focusing on the actual relevant questions, such as what does the best data show regarding enrollment projections and how can we use limited county funds to perform all the necessary renovations at the schools that need them in the fastest way possible, we have people who actually believe that BOE, Taylor & MCPS have this grand scheme to punish Wootton. Such ill motives are ascribed to elected officials and public servants with absolutely zero basis! Why would any BOE member or Taylor want to hurt a flagship school?! It’s patently absurd.  Then they claim that people commenting in this very thread are out to get Wootton, as if everyone is motivated to harm one of the best schools in MD for zero reason. Make it make sense.

These conspiracy theorists need to listen to the public hearings from the Fall to see how Crown as a holding school came up back in October (not November). Taylor even talked to the press about the possibility as soon as the new declining enrollment data came out one week after options A-D were released. It was that data, in combination with the testimonies about the urgent need for renovations at Damascus and other schools, including Wootton, that forced BOE to be creative to figure out how to adjust. The whole point of Crown as a holding school is because the testimony was that performing renovations with students on site would take way too long and too much money. I remember hearing some information specifically about the impossibility of Damascus being renovated while students are still there because of the land and building.

Anyway, saving hundreds of millions of dollars and being able to have Wootton kids in a new building as a holding school or new school was the reason for this. It’s not some wE wAnT tO rUiN WoOToN wAlKeR fAmIlIes’ pRopErTy vAlUEs for funsies conspiracy. Nor is it some vast liberal conspiracy to punish wealthy Wootton families. It’s smart planning and efficient use of taxpayer dollars to try to renovate as quickly and cheaply as possible by using a holding school. [/quote]

Amen!!! Word for word could have been my post. Well done!

Also - please note that just because we are not screaming at the BOE meetings or clammering for TV time does not mean that we are not emailing and filling out surveys. Fingers crossed that the BOE does what makes th emost fiscal sense and we can all celbrate with our kids at Crown![/quote]

Ummm, MCPS and BOE can't stand the concentration of high performance, which happens to be in a school that has decent Asian representation (and Jewish too). They explicitly came up with this regional model BS because they hate that concentration, blaming it on inequity instead of actually trying to teach students who are not proficient and who are predominantly black and brown.

And the shocking hate to the Wootton community specifically has been plenty obvious on this thread. 
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