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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][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.

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?

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.

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?

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]

This post is another level of crazy...[/quote]

Nope it's very on point.

I have been on cluster committees for Wootton for years. This is exactly what has happened and going to happen.

MCPS has failed as usual.

Crown should not be Wootton nor should it be a holding school for Damascus that is stupid[/quote]

You think that 20 years ago they secretly expected decreasing enrollment, maintaining a conspiracy for two decades, across several sets of county, city, and MCPS leaders, to hijack the Wootton site?

Crazy, obviously.
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Nice strawman you built there.  Sounds like you need to visit the Wizard of Oz before posting again.

Wootton was on the CIP multiple times in the past 20 years.  It was removed from the CIP every time.  Is it a coincidence that the timeframes match the Crown land grant?  Are you saying no one within MCPS or the BOE ever discussed moving Wootton to the new Crown High School during that time?  Is it also a coincidence that Wootton was removed from the CIP in November, and then Option H magically appeared in December?  December is often when governments release future plans in the hope that citizens are so busy with the holidays to notice until its too late.[/quote]

This is right on the money.
On November 20, the removed Wootton from the CIP.
Days later, on November 24, Taylor had behind the scenes conversations with elected officials, saying there’s a proposal on the table so don’t worry about Wootton’s removal.

Then in December, right after Thanksgiving break, option H was announced.

I find it very very hard to believe Taylor dreamed up and drafted options E-H within 4 days.

The more realistic timeline is A-D was off the table (due to Churchill lawsuits). At some point, Taylor dreamed up E-H. He then removes Wootton from CIP. To make it look like the new options came out as a reaction to CIP—not as the reason for CIP removal—he announces the new options publicly in December.

Ultimately lawsuits via discovery will show whether or not option H came before and was the reason for CIP removal. If it is, MCPS is completely screwed and the neither decision will stand. They’ll have to start the boundary study all over again.

I don’t care if you are a Wootton hater or supporter—no matter who you are, you should be concerned about a corrupt non-transparent BOE and superintendent.
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Are you people reading this? The above is an explosive allegation. If true—this is crazy![/quote]

It really isn't. There was no plausible path for rebuilding Wootton without using the building in Crown. And if we need to use that building, current enrollment projections don't support rushing another building.

Entirely sensible and legal. Changing facilities and changing boundaries are not the same things as closing a school under Maryland law.[/quote]

As an outsider looking in, I have a genuine question that goes back to what I think is the purpose of this whole thread.

What happens to Wootton long term under option H?

Suppose it is chosen, suppose Woottoners go to Crown, suppose Wootton the building gets some emergency renovations that brings it up to code for it to be a holding school. Suppose Damascus and Magruder are done using it after their respective schools have been rebuilt/renovated, then what?

Do they rebuild Wootton and shuffle the Woottoners back into the original location only with a newer building? If that’s the case, do they do another boundary study to figure out who fills up Crown once the Woottoners go back to their original location?

Or: Do they condemn the building and demolish Wootton? If that’s the case, wouldn’t Crown be super overcrowded by then?

Do we know the answer? Has MCPS told us? Has anyone asked?

I’m genuinely trying to understand and form an opinion on this matter. But I don’t see how anyone—anti H group or pro H group—can be against or for H without knowing the answers to these questions.[/quote]

Exactly on point. It brings so much uncertainty without answers in this rushed process. As anti-H, I am just tired and afraid of keeping fighting for the uncertainties in the next decade. Can we just live our lives in Montgomery county happily ever after?

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