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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is with the hyperbole? 250 new buses on Wootton Parkway? 37 stops for one bus?! Making up BS just further undermines your argument. Clearly you're unfamiliar with how public school busing works here, because they don't go from house to house picking up each kid. LOL. There are things called "bus stops" where they pick up dozens of kids at one place, for efficiency. The Wootton bus schedule is a public document, and you can see for yourself that every bus makes just a handful of stops - with one outlier at 16 stops. Oh, and it's 22 buses for Wootton. Moving Wootton to Crown will not make that number jump to 250. Even if none of these groups turn to walkers at Crown (which some of them will), it still will not require another 228 buses to transport the Wootton walkers to Crown. And since MCPS already said that Wootton wouldn't be used as a holding school for several years, you don't have to worry about another 22-30 (not 228) buses from another high school coming. IF and when it is used as a holding school, there will be plenty of time to stagger the holding school start time from Wootton. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/Transportation/busroutes/04234bus.pdf
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If Wootton isn’t going to be used as a holding school for several years, what is the plan for Magruder and why is this plan equitable? [/quote]

It isn’t. Moving Wootton to Crown kills 2 birds with one stone for Taylor (really 3 birds). First, he fills Crown with high achieving kids, instant academic reputation that would otherwise take 20 years (if ever) to develop (and speaking of developers, they will be very happy). Second, it avoids MCPS having to spend money remediating Wootton, so it can spend that money on more sole source contracts that violate procurement regulations. Third, it means there isn’t a holding school for Magruder, so MCPS can delay that $300M+ renovation for years (if Crown was a holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations). 
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Ok I'll bite. For the first goal, what is wrong with filling Crown with high achieving kids? Isn't that a great idea in a public school system? Or should Crown be filled with low achieving kids? Is it illegal to fill Crown with high achieving kids? If MCPS had a choice between filling Crown with high or low achieving kids, if it made the decision to fill Crown with high achieving kids, wouldn't that be a wise decision for a public school system to make? To set up the school for success? Maximize the chances for more students to perform well? Studies show that taking low achieving kids and surrounding them with high achieving kids helps those low achieving kids tremendously. Why? Because they're low achieving because of lack of access and lack of resources. For the second goal, of course moving Wootton to Crown avoids MCPS having to spend a bunch of money it doesn't have remediating Wootton. That's what they said! Consolidating schools is for efficiency is explicitly one of the valid purposes of a boundary study. You stump me on the sole source contract motivation. Never heard of this complaint - how would saving money on renovating Wootton allow MCPS to spend money (the money it doesn't have to renovate Wootton) on more sole source contracts? That conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense. Third, moving Wootton to Crown creates a holding school for Magruder - at Wootton. It doesn't mean there isn't one. Where do you base your conclusion that if Crown was the holding school for Magruder, MCPS would have to find the money to begin renovations? Under the recommendation, Taylor made clear that there is no money for renovations for Magruder until 2033. That's why Magruder wouldn't even be going to Wootton as a holding school for many years. [/quote]

On Magruder, that’s why we’re upset. There is no money for many years. So if we don’t get crown as a holding school, what happens to us?  [/quote]

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