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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the City of Rockville's proposal?

Why does a Senator's support matter for a local decision? [/quote]

The Rockville proposal is that Crown is a holding school as MCPS rebuilds Wootton and Magruder.

So, option H is basically in place for the first 5 years (Wootton temporarily moves into Crown, Wootton gets rebuilt).

Then Wootton moves back to the current location, Magruder kids come in and the local Crown kids stay in Crown. Magruder gets rebuilt and then a boundary study is done to move a permanent student body into Crown.

It's acceding to the reality that Wootton's building is in such poor repair with no funding to fix it that the kids will need to be in Crown by 2027 and trying to tie MCPS' hands to make it a temporary move.

I'm doubtful it'll be considered because MCPS will want the flexibility of moving Wootton and then seeing the budgetary and enrollment landscape before making a decision.[/quote]

It's not JUST that it function as a holding school, which is an worth debating and certainly has precedent since MCPS just did that with Woodward and Northwood.

They're proposing a HYBRID solution where it is part-holding school and part-local school. Which to my knowledge, has never been done and sounds like a logistical nightmare.[/quote]

Diff perspective. While dual status (both holding and permanent school) might sound complex, I don't think it will be more complex than what MCPS is proposing to do with the six-region model, which is gonna be awful.

In some ways a dual status could be modeled after something like the current magnet HSs that bus both local students and the students from outside the boundary who get imported in. But it will be a lot simpler because in any given year, the students outside the boundary are from only one cluster anyway, and not cross county/regions.[/quote]

The proponents of the "Rockville alternative" don't seem to grasp how much more disruptive it would be for the Crown-local students in their hybrid scenario.

Constantly part of another school?  Inability to build community?  Discontinuity of teachers/admins/sports/extracurriculars?

Not a thought as to how these and other aspects might be greater injustices than being told one will have a brand new facility a couple of miles away, with the walk-zone injustice of the proximate facility being used for other communities being equal in either case.  But the idea of jumping Magruder in the line doesn't seem to phase them :roll:[/quote]

How do you know what parents are thinking. 
Sounds like a prejudice.[/quote]

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