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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]100% something will be a holding school.... whether it is Wootton or the new building. No chance they add a new school when enrollment is declining at such a fast pace.[/quote]

Then it has to be crown. They cannot legally close and relocate a school through a boundary process. [/quote]

The BOE can absolutely approve the closure of a school, which of course requires assigning neighborhoods to a different school.[/quote]
They can, but they need to go through a different process. Not this rushed boundary study. [/quote]

I think they’re trying to skirt around this by saying they’re relocating Wootton to Crown, not closing it.

Whether that argument would hold up legally if challenged, who knows. But Option H seeks to relocate Wootton, not close the school itself, although they would be vacating their current building.

A useful precedent to look at would be to look at back when Neelsville Middle School took over Martin Luther King Jr Middle School’s building in Germantown when that school was moved to a new building.[/quote]

Isn't this just a matter of the BOE taking a separate vote on the school closure? That seems easy enough for them to do.[/quote]
It needs more time and research and public engagement [/quote]

Yeah but legally they can definitely do it[/quote]

Not by March [/quote]

They can definitely decide Crown's new boundaries by March. And if something like Option H is chosen, they can then begin the official processes to make Wootton's building a holding school.[/quote]

No, the board can’t just legally approve Option H under the guise of a boundary study and then do a full relocation process later. [/quote]

Why not? The board can reassign all of Wootton to Crown if it so chooses.[/quote]
They can’t unless they close Wootton. Closing Wootton needs a different process and the outcome cannot be pretermined by a boundary study. [/quote]

Seems like they're not proposing [i]closing[/i] Wootton, only relocating it and changing its boundaries.[/quote]

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