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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Makes zero sense to build a new HS when enrollment is declining.  [/quote]

Thanks, Captain Obvious.  But Crown was built based on growth assumptions that didn’t materialize.  Are you suggesting they should have left it half-finished when enrollments started to decline?  [/quote]
 It makes sense to close Wootton the building, and move the students to Crown, a brand new school.  Makes no sense to have an additional HS when enrollment is down.[/quote]

It makes sense to use Crown as a holding school instead of closing a high performing school that has been its location for 55 years. MCPS did that with Woodward, so why can’t it do it again?  [/quote]

Most of us see right through this “closing” language you all are insisting on—it’s simply for your legal argument— but no one else buys it. Keeping 4/5 feeder schools together in a new building close by (same zip code as DuFief, SMES and Travilah and closer to all three campuses than current Wootton building!) and moving out only the one (Cold Spring) that specifically asked to be transferred to Churchill if implementing Option H does not constitute a “closing”; this is a move. A move that, by accepting the demand of Cold Spring, also demonstrates community feedback was incorporated.

Woodward was used as a holding school for one specific HS to be renovated. There would be no point in using a new state of the art building as a holding school indefinitely.

At the end of the day, if adding in one new elementary school (FRES) + one of the most affluent places in Gaithersburg (Downtown Crown) constitutes “closing down” a school, that’s really a you problem as opposed to one for the county. And given QO was at 122% capacity and Wootton under capacity, it’s quite conceivable FRES could have been moved to Wootton at some point anyway. [/quote]

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