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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Crown people were absolutely disgusting in the meeting tonight. “We paid taxes so you can’t take this school from us”. Basically they came across as screw the kids who are in Wootton and Magruder, we don’t care if they go to school in unsafe unsanitary dangerous to human health schools, we don’t care if it costs the county $400M more to redo Damascus, Wootton and Magruder, because heaven forbid our students who are actually in a safe school (Gaithersburg HS) or a not great but not terribly disgusting school (QO) can’t be inconvenienced. Cry me a river. I lost any sympathy I had for them tonight.

The solution is use Crown as a holding school to do Damascus, and then either:

A) redo boundaries to move all of Wootton to Crown along with the areas around Crown and shut Wootton. Simultaneously renovate Magruder on site.
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B) also use Crown as holding school for Magruder and then redo boundaries to move all of Wootton to Crown coupled with local Crown areas and shut down Wootton.

At some point they can rebuild Wootton if the demand exists.[/quote]

I actually empathize with both Wootton and Crown families. Wootton's building is objectively in really bad shape. There is no denying that.

I also understand Crown families and the City of Gaithersburg's perspective, especially since MCPS was GIFTED the land for the express purpose of building a new high school. There were promises made legally here that MCPS can't just backtrack on because they suck at planning and running the school district.[/quote]

Yes I understand both sides but I was appalled by the sentiment that is getting “our school” was so much more important than families at the three ancient unsafe schools getting a suitable and safe place to learn. It’s not like the kids who would go to Crown are in unsafe shitholes currently. Gaithersburg is like under 10 years old [b]I believe and QO while fairly old and overcrowded isn’t unsafe to the same extent as those three[/b].[/quote]

Just this school year, Quince Orchard had to close due to pipe issues: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/24/quince-orchard-evacuated/

Gaithersburg's high school buildings (Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill and Quince Orchard) are not in great shape. Gaithersburg HS is the best since it's the newest, but QO is pretty bad.

For example, while Wootton has a worse Facility Condition Index score (.62), Watkins Mill is not far behind with a (.48). So the Crown and Gaithersburg community is right: They have been patiently waiting for Crown to alleviate a number of their infrastructure issues. They're not wrong to advocate for themselves.[/quote]

But they have $2M artificial turf! No need for pipes.[/quote]

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