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[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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It's not bullying it's a choice.  Everyone has tradeoffs.  MCPS isn't worried about your home values, all your perceived traditions, or whatever the heck else you want to bring into the equation.  This is about managing resources as efficiently as possible,  doing so as safely as possible given the resource constraints, and with those two creating the most ideal educational environment for all students.  You can either get a new safe building a couple miles away and go forth with education or you can stay in your old building and go forth with education.  If you choose to stay, don't expect others to have sympathy for your complaints about the building.  [/quote]

You sound like sympathy would get Wootton a new building. If that’s true, Wootton would have been renovated a long time ago. So are other schools waiting to be renovated. Bullying and threatening don’t work either. [/quote]

Yeah, the "no sympathy" angle is just wrong.  We all should have sympathy for those in bad situations, and Wootton has been back-burnered for quite a long time, much like Eastern MS and others.  The tolerance of poor conditions by the County Council, which is what happens when they fail to fund the CIP request, is abominable.

On the other hand, since there are many different communities' needs in play, MCPS shouldn't be making a decision based purely on sympathy for one community if the end result of that is less equitable, overall.[/quote]

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