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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]FFS, get ready folks, tomorrow's testimony includes Wootton flexing their money muscles and overtly trying to intimidate (threaten?) the BOE with lawsuits because they may not get their way.

This gem of a parent starts with, "I’m the one sending legal notices....You’re probably tired of hearing from me. I’m definitely tired of writing them" So, just a thought: no one asked you to do that so maybe take a break?

She then says, "My role is not to advise—you have counsel for that—but to caution that we are watching closely. Here’s just a few of the many legal issues we are tracking."

First of all, yea, pretty sure that's intimidation at it's finest. But also, she acknowledges they have counsel who is advising them and unless she thinks they are literal idiots, said counsel is not allowing them to do something illegal.

Or, maybe in typical Wootton fashion, she's just the smartest of them all?

Is she even a lawyer? I'm too lazy to google but I do hope she shows up in a Judge's robe tomorrow for her testimony. [/quote]

Let them sue.  [/quote]

Be careful what you wish for. Didn’t MCPS get spanked by the Supreme Court last year?  I’m quite sure that MCPS’ lawyers are going to be very careful about doing anything that even comes close to the legal line. [/quote]

You are very, very wrong. MCPS’ lawyers only get paid big bucks when MCPS is sued. [/quote]

MCPS lawyers lol aren’t even competent enough to argue in SCOTUS. MCPS lawyers get paid the same annual salary regardless of whether they get sued or not—which is why they don’t care and aren’t competent. When shit hits the fan lol MCPS hired out and pays insane amount of money for third party lawyers because they know their own lawyers are inept. Just Google who actually represented MCPS in the Supreme Court cases—wasn’t MCPS in house lawyers.

They sure do love wasting taxpayer money.[/quote]

The point about referencing the Supreme Court case is because MCPS died on a hill when it had several reasonable alternatives to resolve the dispute.  Instead, it set a bad precedent that will live for decades.

MCPS has alternatives to Option H, but if it pushes for that option, litigation will happen and it will look stupid again. If there is any hint of DEI or discrimination involved, the case might garner White House and DOJ attention.  Nobody wants that during an election year. [/quote]

I'm not Wootton educated so bear with me and my smaller brain here--can you clarify who from our current administration you think will punish MCPS for discrimination? I would think that they either won't GAD or will support the fiscal responsibility of the school system bc truly, their interest in matters of discrimination or children is seemingly nonexistent. [/quote]

I’m sorry you didn’t graduate from Wootton. Sounds like the pain runs deep. You should seek therapy.

It’s not necessarily punishment. Just unwanted attention. Closing a top school to cover up incompetence in building a school based on inaccurate enrollment numbers.  Then treating the kids from that top school like trading cards.

MCPS could have rebuilt Wootton years ago and then expanded its boundary to Horizon Hill to ease overcrowding at RM.  alternatively, it could have done the same to absorb another neighborhood in North Potomac. Wootton families would have been far less vocal. MCPS might have lost the Crown land, but that would have been cheaper than building an under enrolled school. [/quote]

DP here. I'd agree with you in every word that MCPS made a series of stupid mistakes that eventually led to the current unfortunate situation. But it's not the time to discuss about what could have happened, but what could be done to remedy the situation, right? The option "W" raised by the petition seems quite unrealistic and talking out of the context. [/quote]

The remedy is not to make things worse by closing Wootton. Use the excess capacity at Crown as holding and remediate the immediate issues at Wootton. How is this unrealistic?

Elrich recently denied MCPS’ desire to expand existing facilities, so it seems clear to me that he prefers to remediate existing ones.[/quote]

So you'd agree on option E with added revision to include Wootton on the waitlist? The latter belongs to CIP, which kicks out Wootton several times in the past, and I believe adding Wootton on the waitlist, if this is the final approved boundary plan, will have no legal binding to assure Wootton get fixed after Damascus and MaGruder. [/quote]

It may not be legally binding and it yes, it will mean that Wootton needs to fight to get on the CIP, but it seems Wootton is finally being taken seriously in terms of the condition of the school AND the county is moving in the direction of maintaining existing schools versus building new ones.

Crown as a holding school slows down all of this, prevents Wootton from being shut down and allows for additional pivoting down the road. There will be more boundary studies in ten years no matter what option is chosen. People thinking A-D or H "lock it in" are fooling themselves. [/quote]

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