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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real reason why certain Wootton families adamantly want to remain on the Parkway (knowing full well there is no money for renovations for several years) is because of what they have said in writing and orally publicly (we have many receipts): they're afraid that going to school with Crown kids will harm their kids. They have said that the Crown kids are violent, will disrupt the classes, are "low performers," will somehow affect their kids' grades and ability to get into a selective college. This racist fear is THE reason they're opposed. What is disgusting is their ploy to use Magruder for cover. Some of the Magruder parents I talked with said they disengaged once they saw that the intentions of the Rockville power brokers was not to actually advocate for Magruder to get money to get renovated. Comments from Wootton parents that Magruder should go to Crown because their demo and "culture" is more in tune with the Crown kids than Wootton's "excellence" are case in point. [/quote]

Receipts? Great, show them. Because you're making a sweeping accusation against an entire community based on what sounds like a handful of loud idiots on the internet and then using those idiots to invalidate thousands of families who have legitimate concerns. That's not an argument. That's a smear with a bow on it.

I'll be direct: I have never once heard anyone in my circle express concern about Crown kids. Not once. What I have heard is parents who built their family's daily routine around three kids walking home together through three schools on the same corridor. That's not racism. That's a family's life.

Also worth noting: Wootton had a student shot on campus and multiple bomb threats this year. If we're playing the "dangerous kids" card, maybe consider which direction that cuts.

As for Magruder? I've spoken to those families too. Many of them actually want Crown. It's closer, it's newer, it genuinely works better for their community. So why aren't we having THAT conversation instead of this one? If the data supports Magruder going to Crown, make that case. It's a compelling one.

But constructing a villain is so much easier than making an honest argument.

Show the receipts or stop calling it evidence.[/quote]

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