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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]How are all these schools going to get repairs without a holding school?[/quote]

You must be from DC most of the school systems in the country to not use holding schools.  Holding schools only make sense when you live in an urban area and changing schools is just a few blocks and in many urban areas school enrollment has been on the decline for decades so they have plenty of empty schools to use.

Here in the suburbs we have the opposite problem.  A) most of the schools are overfilled.  Ironically Crown won't fix the schools that actually need more space.  B)Having parents drive many miles in dense suburban traffic is highly inconvenient.

So yes. It may be administratively convenient to repair the schools, but they are making it inconvenient for many of the families involved, because this school system is not a dense urban school system.

Just administrative laziness on top of administrative incompetence with a healthy dose of mixed incentives bordering on fraud.[/quote]

This is why phased renovations make sense. Taylor wants to avoid this by grabbing Wootton’s current building. He can remediate its issues relatively cheap. This is why he’s been quiet about what he plans to do with it. If this were publicly known, the Wootton pushback would be even louder and Option H would be DOA. [/quote]

It’s not relatively cheap.  If it is fundraise and do it. [/quote]

Why?  MCPS is funded by taxes. But if fundraising is required, I’m asking you to donate to a good cause. It’s for the children after all…[/quote]

The taxpayers have a different school for you. If you insist on turning it down, pay for your own renovations.

But boundaries can still change.[/quote]

The taxpayers don’t. That school was built for Gaithersburg kids. Why do you hate them so much?  Boundaries can change, but there won’t be a need to change Wootton’s boundaries [b]if Crown goes to the Gaithersburg kids to whom it was promised [/b]and the excess used for a holding school. Or do you hate Damascus and Magruder kids too?

Talk about bring elitist. [/quote]

You keep saying this, but GHS, Wootton, QO, RM, and Northwest were always part of the Crown discussion.[/quote]

Except RM is untouched and still overcrowded [/quote]

Perfect. Sounds like RM could be tapped to make up any shortfall in Crown enrollment numbers. Problem solved.  No need to close Wootton and cheat GHS, QO, and Northwest out of their school.[/quote]

Yes-perfect yet they still aren’t going to do it. [/quote]

The numbers they're using for the boundary studies only include resident students, so they don't consider RM overcrowded:

[url]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puaEmpTqC8q5LpGzPTs2a0dKYQSrvnaR/view[/url][/quote]

You mean they don’t count the IB program?  That seems to contradict normal building occupancy rules, such as those used by the fire marshal.  So is this a question of “when is a student not a student?”[/quote]

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