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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]I’m a future Wootton parent and I want Crown. If we lose option H, I’m not sending my kids into that moldy building! [/quote]

So send them to private. You are in a very very small minority that wants crown. [/quote]

We are fortunate to have the option of private school if it comes to that, but I’m speaking up because I know others who share my view and want Wootton at Crown as well. Many of us simply aren’t as vocal. The opposition may be loud, but it’s largely concentrated in one neighborhood. Not hearing from us doesn’t mean we don’t exist or that our numbers are small.[/quote]

Then why aren’t being vocal about what you want? Don’t complain if/when you don’t get crown when you are doing nothing to advocate for it. [/quote]

Why do they need to be. Crown makes sense.  [/quote]

haha ok. When homeless folks take over an abandoned Wootton and needles start being left all over the street for kids to find we will see if you still feel like it makes sense. [/quote]

Are there druggie squatters at Radnor, or are you constructing a boogeyman?[/quote]

An abandoned building attracts squatters no matter where it is. The building that was left empty right near wootton had that very problem. [/quote]

And would Wootton sit empty, or would it be an occupied holding school for the predictable future?[/quote]

Well this is the point Wootton parents are trying to make-if you are going to make it safe enough to be a holding school then you can use Crown as a holding school while you do that and let Wootton students go back to their school. But the point everyone for Crown is saying is that mcps doesn’t have the money to fix it-so it will sit empty for who knows how long if that happens. They can’t realistically use it for a holding school if they are saying it’s not safe enough for students.[/quote]

Except that Taylor's take on that is that anyone can handle the problems with low-standard conditions for a couple of years in a holding facility while their own school gets upgraded/rebuilt.

The modifications needed to bring Wootton (or SSIMS in the other study) up to some kind of minimum standard could be done for far less than it would take to properly recondition or rebuild that facility for long-term occupancy by a school community, and might be done at that lower cost, even if crashing the schedule, largely over the next two summers leading into 2027-28, when Wootton would move to the Crown location, allowing immediate use of Wootton as the holding facility.

The attention might even see the County engage in tradeoffs, such as cleaning up the nearby abandoned building.[/quote]

It’s obvious you don’t live anywhere near the area or you would know that they are building housing now in the previously abandoned building near Wootton. Housing that would have been more walkers to the school. [/quote]

Soooo...because the once-abandoned building is no longer abandoned & occupied by squatters (remember, that was the thing about which one poster complained a few posts back), MCPS couldn't use a slightly improved Wootton as a holding facility?  I don't see the straight-line argument, there, only a shade cast at the prior post.[/quote]

Yes I’d think HVAC/roofing gets replaced and badly damaged ceilings replaced and then it is a holding school. There’s like 15-20 secondary schools which will need major renovations in the coming 10-15 years and we have no holding school for them![/quote]

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