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[quote=Anonymous]Why rebuild Wootton at all? Why not just demolish the outdated building? With declining enrollment, it doesn’t seem necessary to keep both Wootton and Crown.
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wootton is the most hated school in the county for racist reasons…we don’t have the levels of other W schools yet our average SAT results and MCAP pass rates are higher. We are a majority minority school where most parents are immigrants to this country. Unfortunately we have the wrong kind of minority that woke justice warriors like to dump on. Every other thread is about Wootton. It’s insane. Yes, we don’t fit your crazed racial narratives. We are sorry for having a student body of capable kids. [/quote]

Wootton parents are complaining about the facilities and want immediate action.  Due to the wasteful spending with no accountability or transparency, there is NO money to repair or replace the failing schools, and Wootton is not alone; they are just the ones making the biggest fuss. So, MCPS came up with a solution to give them Crown.  That's not an unreasonable solution.[/quote]
Wootton families get penalized by MCPS poor planning and wasteful spending?[/quote]

Do you not understand how many schools are in the same condition but the difference is you are being offered a brand new school nearby!   Plus, your kids get access to so many more courses, clubs and activities while ours get the absolute minimum.  I’d take that new school over our mold infested one.  [/quote]
Some wootton families dont want a new school. They want to stay where they are, and asking for a renovation of school. MCPS planned poorly with the budget, spending millions of dollars on a new school, and now they are saying they dont have enough enrollment, so Wootton has to go?[/quote]

The county is losing $800+ million in revenue over the next 6 years, enrollment is declining, and there is a brand new $300 million dollar high school 2.5 miles from one that needs to be torn down. In what universe do we build an additional $300 million dollar school under these circumstances?

Was it bad planning? Yes. Was it preventable? Yes. But this is where we are today and dragging the county into more bonding when debt service is already a huge chunk of the budget is not the solution. Nor is raising income tax or property tax unless you want middle-class and upper-middle class homeowners to revolt.

It’s not ideal but it’s the best of a bunch of bad options and personally, it’s the first time I can recall MCPS actually proposing something practical rather than aspirational since the Great Recession.[/quote]

I don’t disagree that the county faces major fiscal pressure — but that’s exactly why we need better planning, not short-term fixes that create bigger long-term problems. Moving an entire cluster into Crown is not a cost-saving plan; it’s a way of avoiding the consequences of past planning mistakes, and it doesn’t actually eliminate the need to rebuild Wootton. The building will not magically fix itself simply because its students are reassigned. Whether Wootton is occupied or not, MCPS will still eventually have to address a failing facility, and pushing that cost down the road does not make it go away.[/quote][/quote]

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