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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gaithersburg as a mailing address covers a very large area.  It includes well-off neighborhoods like the Kentlands and Lakelands as well as a number of poor housing complexes.  So there's not much generalization to be made.[/quote]

Depending on how old your kids are, Crown HS is scheduled open in Aug '27.  I think the hottest place to be will be Downtown Crown when Crown opens.

There is a lot of speculation where Crown will pull their students from, since it involves QO, NW, Wootton, Gaithersburg HS, and the board will be put under a lot of pressure on that decision.  The majority of FARMS kids are good kids who don't cause issues, but there are a few nearby communities with significant gang and drug dealing problems.  Crown is also physically close to a number of "DC commuter" communities, medical / research facilities, Downtown Crown and Rio Washingtonian Center, which all would not be welcoming to drug/gang subcultures since it hurts their financial bottom line.

I know there is a strong push by certain individuals to accept a good percentage of FARMS students at Crown to make it like Blair, but I think that strategy would backfire.  If a brand-new school gets trashed or the kids get arrested for serious incidents, it would be newsworthy.  The more negative articles are published, I'm also guessing that Rio and the surrounding neighborhoods (who already have a lot of surveillance cameras set up because of the nighttime activities) won't be friendly towards HS kids hanging out after school if they cause issues (vandalism, package theft, etc.).  That will generate a lot of complaints (heck, these folks complain about dogs pooping on their yard in social media, post photos of kids taking halloween candy bowls, etc.), and if Downtown Crown / Rio gets tarnished, the Council members will start jumping in.  That's the kind of attention MCPS doesn't want or need, since their pursestrings are tied to the Council.

I also think that Crown would be the perfect location for a mid-county Magnet program.  As it stands, putting magnets at Blair and Poolesville alienates the mid-county area and increases the logistical transportation burden.  MCPS has always fought opening up a midcounty Magnet program and I never understood why?   Makes no sense. [/quote]

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