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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought they were selling option H with the promise the Wootton community stays together and just the building changes. That was very misleading. Now they are casting Cold Spring out so they are breaking up the school community. They’re also doing some weird middle school shuffling. As a Wootton parent, I don’t mind adding students from another ES in but I do mind that now we won’t be Wootton at all. I attended Wootton as did many of my neighbors, so both kids and parents feel deeply connected to the school community.

I think it would have made more sense to move Wootton temporarily to Crown while bringing Wootton up to acceptable standards and then move the kids back to Wootton Parkway. The building is inadequate for Wootton as it stands today so why is it adequate for a holding school? There will also be lots of traffic congestion on Wootton Parkway if kids come from 30 minutes away and the Wootton kids are going in the opposite direction to reach Crown.

I understand they can’t make everyone happy and I will accept the decision that is made but I resent that I received the superintendent’s email this evening saying “ This is not a school closure—Wootton remains Wootton
Essentially, the school’s students, staff, programs, traditions, and identity would continue in a modern, purpose-built facility” at the same time our neighborhood has essentially learned we won’t be attending Wootton. [/quote]

The secondary alternative, which opens Crown as a new high school, would have DuFief carved off from Wootton, along with that section of Rio that goes Wootton. Wootton's community was never going to be remain static simply because Crown's location is within the boundaries of Wootton.

With 100% perfect hindsight, the money spent on Crown might have been better spent getting other schools up to a better condition and it sucks that Wootton's building got to that point, but the past is the past. Given the current situation (Wootton falling apart, falling enrollment), saving money by not opening a new high school and moving Wootton to Crown makes the most sense.[/quote]

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