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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's ironic is that it's pretty clear that Wootton is going to still be very similar after the move, so their reputation and offerings would otherwise stay pretty much the same and no one (except walkers to the current Wootton) would care much... it's still basically the same old W school and any downsides would be cancelled out by the benefits of having a shiny new building.  If folks just accepted it as a minor location change and a minor boundary change, it would just be a tiny blip on Wootton's trajectory but otherwise just the same Wootton it's always been.

Except given how much shouting Wootton families are doing about how the move will ruin Wootton and how it won't "really" be Wootton anymore, I do wonder if they're making it a self fulfilling prophecy?  Like, any reasonable person knows that it will still be Wootton and it's no big deal, but if everyone around you is saying that it's terrible, the old Wootton will be gone, the new one will be worse, then maybe you start believing it? [/quote]

As an anecdote, my friend moved to a Wootton district, specifically for Wootton, and his son goes to Frost at the moment. He does not care about option H because his son needs to ride the bus regardless.

Similarly, my parents are still living in the DuFief neighborhood; their neighbors are thrilled because most options had them districted to Crown and if Wootton is moving there, they stay in the same school boundary.

The Wootton boundary was always going to be the flashpoint in the Crown boundary study; this current option is the least disruptive for the Wootton student body. Only Cold Spring is getting moved out of the boundary and the rest stay in.

It is completely understandable for the neighborhoods surrounding the current Wootton site to be upset; their home high school will no longer be walkable. For the majority of the Wootton student population, it's a minimal change, riding a bus to one building rather than another.[/quote]

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