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[quote=Anonymous][youtube][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crown will be a holding school so that everyone can use it for a couple of years. Fair. [/quote]

Seems like the most reasonable path that does the least harm. By 2029, there will likely be a change in administrations and many current limits on growth in MoCo will be gone. New enrollment projections can be done and boundary studies conducted. Wootton remains a top school, Crown is used by the Gaithersburg families to whim it was promised.  Everybody wins and no one is harmed. [/quote]

The current administration isn't the issue. Vacancy rates are still low. There are few opportunities for infill development in that area. The projects that could move forward, like the proposal in Rio, would result in very few additional students. You're only going to get more students if you either 1) increase density through redevelopment, or 2) attract demographic groups that have more kids. Neither is likely in Montgomery County, *especially* that part of Montgomery County.

Kids are expensive. Montgomery County is expensive. Society has changed in ways that are much more hostile to working parents. There are simply going to be fewer kids in places like this.[/quote]

I know what you mean, that is true for much of the old money areas in Potomac, but right next-door Richard Montgomery is at 120% capacity, and much of that are in Rockville are likely fairly densely populated with working families.  It's the outer regions that just aren't going to produce many kids.

Though it makes me wonder, how much of that is just people finding ways to send kids to better schools, via relatives or whatever way.  Like the overcrowding in specific popular school districts might not be so bad, if like there were more good schools.[/quote]

RM includes areas with higher density, as well as areas with redevelopment prospects. That is significantly less true of Wootton and its neighbors to the north and south.

It is unlikely that MCPS will be able to justify rebuilding Wootton. There just won't be enough students on that side of 270.[/quote]

Still think they should send RM kids there.[/quote]

The basis for your point just emphasizes that if we're going to build or expand a school anywhere, it should be on the east side of 270. It doesn't make sense to rebuild Wootton. There isn't a need on the west side. Not now, not with current projections, and not when you consider where redevelopment is going to occur in future decades.[/quote]

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