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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Option H may work and could be a  strong long-term solution, but it also comes with significant uncertainties. It risks leaving an empty building behind, as we have seen elsewhere, and it would remove a neighborhood high school from the heart of Rockville. Many families are also confused by the idea that funding exists to use Wootton as a holding school, yet not to fully modernize it. That said, Option H does have real advantages and should be considered carefully as part of an honest, transparent discussion. This discussion casts families as either “stealing” Crown or acting as though they are “too good” for Crown. BOTH characterizations are harmful and untrue. What needs to stop is the name-calling and the assumption of bad motives when parents are advocating for their children. Years of fiscal and planning decisions by MCPS and the Board of Education put us in this position. Parents are trying to navigate the consequences, not undermine solutions. Assumptions and name-calling don’t move us forward.[/quote]

What people are irritated about is that Wooten is not unique in needing repairs or a new school. They are not the only school who has been on the CIP, removed and is still waiting.  You’re being presented the chance to get a new building but complaining about where it is located. [b]Read the room. Be adults.  No one is getting everything they want. So either you want a new building or you don’t.  And if you choose no, understand that no one wants to hear ya’ll complaining about how unsafe Wooten is.[/b][/quote]

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Either take Option H or just stop complaining. If MCPS abandons Option H, the rest of us do not want to hear you whine about how old and moldy your damn school is. Your kids will be in the moldy school because you chose not to let them mix with black and hispanic people, but instead of saying that you make it about distance and all that crap.

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There is nothing wrong with advocating for a school to be fixed. And parents shouldn’t be “punished” for doing so. I think a lot of us went to high schools that were in pretty terrible shape. The only difference is now there is internet and camera phones where these things didn’t exist when I was in high school-so making horrible conditions known is much much easier. Do I think there would have been such strong advocacy if this was going to be the known outcome? I’m going to say no. Changing the entire dynamic of a school because you want it fixed is not fair. [/quote]

The rest of us are not saying your first ask was unreasonable. We are saying you got a solution from MCPS, but you did not like it and pushed back against MCPS again, so don't whine if MCPS listens to you again and stops Option H. You were given a chance that you did not take, again, when you were only 3rd in line for renovations. Honestly, MCPS was being generous towards Wootton by proposing Option H. There are many times MCPS sucks but not this time.

And about the dynamic, are you so afraid of your kids being friends with Black and Hispanic people?

We are Asian and my kid goes to a DCC school and most of my kid's friends are Hispanic and Black (the school has 60% Hispanic population). They are all just fine.

The racism from Wootton parents is insufferable.

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Yet, the only people being racist are you when you constantly bring it up when it literally wasn’t even relevant to the previous comment.

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Really? "Dynamic" - what dynamic??[/quote]

Maybe the one where it’s in a completely different place? the one where the walkable families can no longer walk? Maybe that dynamic? [/quote]
 But there are plenty of Wootton families that will now be able to walk if they are moved to Crown. We live literally across the street from Crown and my kid takes a bus to Wootton everyday.  It just shifts who can walk and who takes a bus, it doesn't eliminate all walkers. [/quote]

You know your particular area should have never been zoned for Wootton in the first place-so absolutely makes sense for you to go to Crown. And you should fight to go! And those of us walkable to Wootton should get to keep our school. [/quote]

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