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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]How much does being three miles from a high school effect housing price.[/b]  From what I've seen even in rural areas with easy drives, it knocks of a hundred or two hundred grand from the price of the house.

Most people would prefer a school that is a seven or eight over being three miles in congested traffic from the school.[/quote]

It does not. If we go by proximity to a high school, Travilah ES and Dufief ES should go to QO not Wootton. The homes in Travilah are 1.5 million while those in QO are 900K.

Its just the reputation of the school and Wootton will not suffer if they move to Crown. Their branding still stands. Wootton parents want it all - a new school building, and it has to be closer to home, while the rest of us pay taxes to renovate Wootton, when a new one already exists in Crown and can pull Wootton families.

They should pull in from Gaithersburg, QO and Wootton to make a NEW Wootton at Crown.  I'm not familiar with the RM, Churchill, Rockville, Whitman and their proximities, but change the boundary for them too. Redistrict everyone and fill up Crown. Demolish the existing Wootton building.

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Wootton parent here and I agree completely. I have been saying it ever since the county wide boundary study drama before COVID. It does not make sense to have both of those schools, we just don't have the students. I understand we did not have a choice but to build Crown or risk the land so the decision to move Wootton while also adding in more students is perfect. Wootton can sit or get demolished until they decide we have the students to justify the expense. Similar situation with Northwood and even Woodward decades ago when they opened Walter Johnson.

As a Wootton parent I know it is not what my peers want to hear but it is what makes the most sense.   [/quote]

MCPS needs a holding school so the other question is do Wootton parents want the new school or are they ok with Crown being the holding school and stop complaining as many schools have the same issues and they are being offered a new school, unlike the other ones.[/quote]

Crown being a holding school is not going to help Gaithersburg. The North Potomac, Gaithersburg and Rockville area has to be rezoned to fill up Crown along with Wootton. That is what should happen. How is it fair to Gaithersburg then?

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