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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What will happen is that Wootton parents will reject option H. The county does not have the money to renovate Wootton. Wootton will eventually become too unsafe. Wootton kids will then be split up, separated from their friends, and sent on long commutes to different high schools around the county.

Wootton parents are completely screwing their own kids with their lack of realism on limited money and their magical belief that Wootton HS will ever be renovated. [/quote]

As a parent in the Wootton cluster-I actually would prefer this than the current choices. I imagine if what you are saying does happen-the schools the different neighborhoods would be sent to would have to make sense geographically. For us as a whole to go to Crown does not.[/quote]

They don’t have to make sense geographically. If Wootton had a major issue that makes it unsafe to send kids there - it will be unplanned and chaotic The priority will be space to accommodate new kids, not geography, and Kids will be split up and sent to whatever school has space. It’ll likely happen in the middle of the school year and kids will be separated from teachers and assignments that they’re working on and need to learn new ones. In high school this will impact their ability to apply to colleges, take SATs, etc

The idea of not taking a brand new school right now and avoiding the inevitable future chaos seems insane to me. 
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Chaos is by no means inevitable.  As a PP mentioned, MCPS can find the money to remediate Wootton (not renovate) without much trouble.  There are various buckets of money from which it could draw the funds, and it could even push out certain improvements on the CIP by a year or two.  What MCPS is trying to do is fix its mistake in building Crown, and it's getting significant push back from Wootton parents who don't want a new school at the expense of moving locations to a more congested, high-traffic, non-walkable building.  It doesn't help that MCPS has tried to screw over Wootton parents numerous times through questionable boundary studies that made no sense - but cost MCPS $10+ million over the years - money that could have been spent remediating Wootton.[/quote]

Just to clarify, Crown is non-walkable to most, if not all, of the current Wootton walk zone.  It [i]is[/i] walkable from some of the current Wootton catchment, and would be walkable to an equivalently large number, if not a greater number, of students, overall, though many of those would not be in the current Wootton catchment.[/quote]

So move Wootton to Crown, but in the process strip walkability from the current Wootton neighborhoods and give it to neighborhoods who aren't in Wootton today?  Sounds like an indirect way of achieving the goal(s) of the failed boundary studies over the past several years.[/quote]

Just to clarify-at least some of that area (not sure if all) is currently actually zoned for Wootton.[/quote]

Yes, some of the Crown area still is part of Wootton - but by moving Wootton it is essentially rezoning it to include [b]areas that Wootton parents opposed in previous boundary studies[/b].  Essentially, MCPS is saying that the only way Wootton is getting a new building is by agreeing to change its boundary - move the school, and thus the boundary moves.[/quote]

Which previous boundary studies are you referencing? The current boundaries have been in place for decades.[/quote]

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