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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]Shout out to all the Pro-H Wootton families with the courage to voice their rational opinions and who are putting in a lot of work behind the scenes. We see you, and we believe in you.[/quote]

Shout out to you! I am the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton parent that has been accused of being a troll so I went back to read the beginning of this thread and wanted to point out a few things.

See pages 3-6 where I participated in the beginning of this thread.

Pages 8 - 10 are not me but other Pro Option H Wootton parents that make amazing points.

I come back again on Page 69.

So whether you believe it or not ... Pro Option H Wootton parents exist and we are also being heard. [/quote]

Right. How come none of you bothered to show up to the BOE meeting last week?[/quote]

Just a heads up that there is more than one person responding to you. Also because as was previously stated...it is not that deep for most people. [/quote]

Yeah our children’s educational future is definitely “not that deep”. [/quote]

What exactly will change about your child's educational future that would be negative? All I see are positives... new AV equipment, new chem labs, new computers for AOIT, new athletic spaces....new everything!!! What is the downside from an education perspective? All the same classes, teachers etc just in a new location with better materials....genuine question[/quote]

Seriously, this sounds much better than an old rundown building with mold issues.  Mold can cause long term issues in students and staff so most of us would jump and gladly take the new school.[/quote]

It’s getting combined with at least one but likely more very low performing schools. Not average-very low performing. That’s the problem. Everything about Wootton will change. So no, not everything will be the same. [/quote]

Referring to Rosemount? A 56th percentile school, per MD report card? 
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/E/1/15/0555/0

Mixing with those kids is a fate worse for your children than mold?[/quote]

Did you actually look at the proficiency breakdown for math and english? I’m going to guess no since you clearly looked up the school and posted this but yet still managed to spell the name of the school wrong. Anyway-the kids in this school didn’t even meet 50% proficiency for either of those. That’s awful. [/quote]

Fair enough, that's not great!

Still, I'm kind of taken aback that you consider having maybe 20% of your HS coming from a lower-performing elementary school to be worse for your kids than being exposed to mold. You realize your kid can take mostly APs and avoid those icky low-proficiency kids, right?[/quote]

Wow. You think you are being sarcastic/funny but “icky low proficiency kids” is actually gross. I want my kids going to school with kids that can meet the extremely minimal requirements for proficiency-yes. That doesn’t mean I think these kids are “icky” I think these kids need intensive extra services to get them where they need to be. But not at the expense of my kids. If I wanted my kid to go to GHS-I would have moved to that cluster. [/quote]

You’re the one talking about these kids as if being in the same building with them will somehow harm your child, when in high school students can mostly choose the classes appropriate to their academic level.[/quote]

I don’t think it will harm my child individually, but it will harm the school. The numbers for the school as a whole will go down. That’s how that works. [/quote]

and your precious Suzy will stand out even easier....think about it that way [/quote]

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