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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]All you Wootton crazies - just shut up

I'm more concerned about the Regional magnets and looks like this thread keeps getting longer and longer and bumped so the rest of us will forget about that.[/quote]

Actually I have questions about H and regional magnets. Under any other option A-F, Crown (with its state-of-the-art labs) is in region 5. Under H, Crown/Wootton (whatever you call it) is under region 4.

How do we feel about option H handing a brand new amazing STEM centric school to a region that is already well-resourced over the under-resourced Gaithersburg community that is also overcrowded.

Do we care that Option H completely screws over Gaithersburg?[/quote]

For all the people who say they are pro H to diversify Wootton, please do tell—how can you support an option that “steals” a school meant for a community of lower income and less resourced and hands it over to the privileged folks of Rockville and Potomac? 
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The cognitive dissonance doesn't make sense.  Either Wootton is rich and privileged - doesn't deserve a new building, or Wootton is being given a "gift" that it should be forced to take for the good of MCPS.  Which is it?[/quote]

It's really not that complicated once you stop being deliberately obtuse. While people might disagree on relative priority, most would agree Wootton is nearing the end of its functional lifespan and will soon need a major renovation or to be rebuilt.

The people opposed to H don't want to stick with current Wootton building. They instead want MCPS to build them a school that the district doesn't actually need because they think it will help their property values.[/quote]

So let’s say we give Wootton this brand new school. Again for the countless time: do we care or don’t care that H moves Crown/Wootton to region 4? Do we care or don’t care that this would give all the brand new, state of art labs and resources to Rockville and Potomac residents (Wootton, Churchill, RM) when this was supposed to be for under-resourced yet over populated Gaithersburg?

PP, by your own logic, MCPS is giving H to “privileged” parents of Wootton. How do you feel about the entire Gaithersburg community losing access to Crown, when every other option A-G gives Crown to Region 5?[/quote]

Longer-term, it isn't good for Region 5 to have MCPS paying for a high school that it doesn't need.[/quote]

Even longer term, it isn’t good for anyone in the school system for MCPS to spend money breaking ground on a new school it doesn’t need, use faulty enrollment numbers, not renovate another school that they have neglected for decades, and then instead of fixing the neglected school, punishes it by closing it altogether.

If we’re talking about the long term, pretty sure setting an unlawful precedent is worse. [/quote]

Actually it is.  And, MCPS has closed schools over the years.  Not unlawful.  Reopened some. [/quote]

I see we’re back to this.

Please go back in this thread.

It is lawful to close schools.
It is not lawful to close schools without going through the required processes and procedures to close a school. 
MCPS has not started the procedures necessary to formally close Wootton—those procedures are completely separate and distinct from school boundaries.

Before you say something is legal, perhaps check the law first. Go read the state regulations. I’ll even cite you which one: COMAR 13A.02.09

Option H is de facto closure. It is a school closure disguised in a boundary study. [/quote]

The required elements of that process are being done. And we're still just building up to a recommendation to the board. If moving Wootton is the recommendation, there's no reason MCPS couldn't provide notice and hold a subsequent hearing before making a final decision.

That being said, I suspect their lawyers know but the legal obligations truly are. This looks like moving a school, not closing a school.[/quote]

Not PP—but suppose we do it your way. Suppose we decide on H and then do all the requirements like an impact analysis on transportation and safety (how efficient/safe it is to transport two whole high schools into Wootton Parkway that is one lane each in both directions while shipping Wootton kids out the opposite direction at peak hours):

1. What happens if the studies show we can’t do this for whatever reason? What if there is a safety defect? We would have to go back to the drawing board and redo the boundary study? I highly doubt MCPS would want to do that due to cost, timing, and the sheer embarrassment.
2. So how do you insure that the impact analysis and all requirements will be done in a completely unbiased manner if the decision and conclusion of those studies—to support why we should close Wootton—was made and tied to a district wide boundary study beforehand.

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These concerns seem to be apply to any major decision.

Yes, decisions are hard with so many moving parts and so many processes. But we're not locked into any single path yet.[/quote]

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