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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]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.[/quote]

It doesn’t really matter whether you want to hear or not. [b]They deserve safe learning environment and they can’t be treated differently than other schools.[/b]  Don’t keep the narrative that the only way Wootton can have a safe learning enrichment is to give up on their school.  This is not fair.  
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DP.  Great.  Now apply that same principle to each MCPS-served community.  And make sure it covers academic opportunity and all the rest for any individual student, as well.  Solve for y.

It's not that moving Wootton to a new facility and incorporating the nearby communities should be the only option.  That option should be explored, adjusted and evaluated with the entirety of the system in mind, though, even as MCPS should be considering ways to ensure the overall plan for the more impacted individual neighborhoods/families result in broadly equitable provision of educational services.[/quote]

They put out option H and Wootton communities have clearly rejected the option. So that’s it for exploration as it makes no sense to go against the whole community. Don’t threaten Wootton families that they’ll stuck old moldy building without renovation forever because they didn’t accept option H. This kind of bullying needs to stop.

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Have the Wootton faculty and staff clearly rejected the option? I doubt it.[/quote]

I don’t think the people employed there care unless they have kids in the cluster. The students don’t want to move though-if you care at all about them. If it’s just a job to them-who wouldn’t want to move to a new facility-some of them probably live closer to it too. But that shouldn’t be playing a role in this decision. [/quote]

Seriously? The teachers— who have and could spend decades, not 4 years— in that building, aren’t stakeholders?

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Teachers aren't tied to the school in the same way families are.  Families have very little option, they have to literally sell there house to get a different school.

So, no not really stake holders, plus we can always get different teachers, like any other professional.[/quote]

exactly-I’m the pp and i’m not sure why that wasn’t easily understood to the other pp. A teacher can get a transfer whenever and a teacher with experience can pretty much teach wherever they want-there is a huge shortage. So no-they are non stakeholders. If my kid could just apply for a simple transfer every time they wanted a new school we wouldn’t be having this conversation. [/quote]

I'm sympathetic to working conditions.  I just don't see it being different than other professions.  And frankly it seems like the teaching is actually quite poor across MCPS.  Throw out Wootton and the other ten schools the rest of MCPS is substandard.[/quote]

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