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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turning Wootton HS as a holding school is just an option for future projects which won't happen probably at the earliest until Damascus HS is fully renovated/rebuilt. It all depends on the mcps enrollment numbers and money fund. If there is not enough mcps enrollment and no money,  they may not need a holding school or push the idea of turning Wootton HS as a holding school more later like a decade or two later. It is just my thoughts. We don't  need a holding school or permanent Crown HS when  mcps is currently underenrolled. [/quote]

Yeah definitely better to have a huge abandoned building right on Wootton pkwy for the foreseeable future. Also if you have ever talked to anyone in construction-the longer a building sits empty like that, its condition just gets considerably worse. [/quote]

You must be new around here.  The Wootton building won't be abandoned.  MCPS will sell the land to a developer for cheap to build new housing that will then feed into Crown.  Maybe even a townhouse development that will vastly increase traffic on Wootton Parkway.

[b]Keeping Wootton where it is controls traffic speeds and increases safety along Wootton Parkway.[/b][/quote]

:lol: You will make up anything to keep your school where it is, won't you?

A townhouse development would not add more traffic than your existing school.  But if it did, how is that different than development in any other part of county?[/quote]

What are you talking about?  It's a narrow, 2-lane road surrounded by exercise trails and residential neighborhoods.  A massive new residential development is guaranteed to increase traffic, just like building a brand new school in an already traffic congested area.  Oh wait, MCPS already did that - and you want to make traffic around Crown even worse?

[b]You're so desperate to stick it to Wootton and feel that you're this >< close to achieving your lifelong dream with Option H. [/b]

Just admit that you don't live in Wootton and don't care about Wootton families.[/quote]

I generally bristle at the use of this word, but the bolded is...unhinged.

Do you really think it is more likely that this poster has some sort of deep animosity for the amorphous "Wootton" that they are motivated from spite, or is it possible more likely that they evaluated the option and arrive at a different conclusion?

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You must be new here.  There is an ongoing animosity by many loud trolls on DCUM towards the "W schools" in MoCo (Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, Walter Johnson).  It generally stems from the perception that the kids going to "W" schools are white, rich, privileged, and treat those schools as their own private schools, keeping out anyone who doesn't live in Potomac, Bethesda, and North Bethesda.  This feeling was exacerbated by the numerous failed boundary studies over the past several years.  Option H gives these haters the perfect opportunity to destroy one of the "W" schools.  This is why they oppose even a bare minimum remediation of the problems with the current Wootton building - and yet are perfectly happy to remediate the building as a holding school or for other uses - just not for Wootton to remain there.

Hopefully now you understand that the bolded above is not an unhinged perception, particularly where remediation of Wootton would be the least disruptive option, and where other schools could very easily fill Crown.  Also, let's not forget what Option H would cheat many Gaithersburg families out of a new school building that they were expecting.[/quote]

PP here.  Still don’t get it.

For starters, I don’t see how this plan would “destroy” Wootton. I don’t see how you conclude that a significant portion, or any, poster has “opposed bare minimum remediation” at the current Wootton building. And it seems that you define “least disruptive option” to be very narrowly focused on students who are currently zoned to attend Wootton in the next handful of years, as opposed to “in the best interest of all of MCPS” which should be the goal.[/quote]

I guess you haven't read this thread or the other one discussing Option H then. [b] You'll see quite a few posts pushing Option H and opposing any other option.[/b]  Then again, you could be right and all those posts are from the same troll.

Yes, it's the "least disruptive option" for Wootton families, namely, thousands of families whose lives would be disrupted by moving to Crown.  This direct impact is and should be the foremost consideration.  An amorphous claim that closure of Wootton and moving to Crown is the only option that is in the best interests of all of MCPS doesn't come close to outweighing this impact.

Please explain how a bare minimum remediation of Wootton and allowing it to stay in its current location would be against the best interests of MCPS.  Make sure to also include how a forced move of Wootton to Crown would negatively affect other families who are not zoned to attend Wootton.[/quote]

Seems to me that you think that anybody that disagrees with your view is somehow a "troll" with a "lifelong dream" to "destroy Wootton." That is indeed unhinged.  Some people may just see it as the best option for all of MCPS.  Do you really not think that there is room for logical and rational difference of opinion on this that is not rooted in animus for Wootton students?

Yes, parents and students who live near Wootton and planned to attend that building will be impacted.  Travel to school will be more complicated.  That is a negative.  Positives for those families include a better building sooner.  Positives for the entire district include a more even distribution of enrollment based on latest data-driven projections and better use of taxpayer resources.

I honestly see both sides of this one.  And I understand why some/many Wootton families would object.  It is not what they planned for.  I get that.  But some of the arguments feel very NIMBY to me.[/quote]

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