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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]100% the Wootton walkers are hanging their hat on option H being illegal. They cannot get through their head that MCPS would have vetted this plan to make sure it was legal before going forward with it as an option. [/quote]

That is the smoking gun.  They could vet the legality so as to force us into it, but they built the building without vetting the legality and they spent more time on vetting the legality than trying to anticipate enrollment.

EG they knew they were doing something that wasn't very good.[/quote]

Building Crown was legal, but announcing and pushing hard an option to close/move a top school to fill it without appropriate due diligence and community input is not. [/quote]

DP. Top school? I thought it was #191? Seems pretty far down the list if you ask me. But anyways, how is that relevant to any argument regarding whether the closure is legal or not?[/quote]

#191 in the county. #3 in the state. considering the high school I graduated from is like #17k something in the country i’d say they are doing pretty well. [/quote]

As has been discussed, that's a reflection of the quality (wealth) of the students, not in the quality of the school.[/quote]

And yet, it doesn’t change the statistics of how it’s a top school. It doesn’t really matter if you like the reasons. I was answering the ignorant question about how #191 was implied to be not great. Seems you and/or this person don’t know how many high schools there are in this country.[/quote]

It changes the significance. There's no practical public benefit to maintaining a public school for a ranking.  The students still exist regardless of what school they go to.[/quote]

Again, not the point. The statistics are what they are. You can have moral objections to them of course but it doesn’t change anything. And if it didn’t matter at all why would they make/publish these rankings in the first place? It’s fine if it doesn’t matter to you-nobody cares. It obviously matters to some-that’s why ranking exist.[/quote]

It might matter to you as a parent to an individual child, but it doesn't matter to the district as a whole if students ultimately just have similar levels of performance distributed differently across schools.[/quote]

It matters to MCPS as well. Very much so. [/quote]

It shouldn't. MCPS shouldn't be playing favorites.[/quote]

They always have.  Look at the course and activity offerings at the various MS and HS.  There are huge disparities in the offerings.[/quote]Ok, MCPS is removing Blair and other good magnet programs. No more disparities.[/quote]

They aren't removing it, they are adding more magnets to give more kids opportunities.  That's a good thing.[/quote]

Here we go again. When is a magnet no longer a magnet?[/quote]

Umm, when it’s no longer “attractive”?[/quote]

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