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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wootton does not have to sit empty with the neighborhood losing a school.

Move Wootton to Crown.

MCPS should make the current Wootton building (after renovations) a central location for all special needs programs from PEP to 12th grade or more. It is easier to get to Wootton since it is centrally located.

As it is all schools are having issues with SES kids, so having a school for them with dedicated resources will be a good thing for them as well as the NT kids.

And what better location than Wootton?

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Are you kidding me? Crown is way more centrally located and easier to access. Wootton is farther away from most schools[/quote]

Looking just now at google maps, the drive times from Damascus, Einstein, Kennedy and Sherwood, four schools mentioned earlier in this thread, are all between 23 and 27 minutes.  For some, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Wootton.  For others, it is 3 or 4 minutes faster to Crown.

Of course, these numbers would go up during the weekday with traffic, but they would remain relatively similar in comparison.  Any difference, here, is like the difference in walk zones -- one or other set of neighborhoods might benefit at the expense of the other, but neither holding school option, Wootton or Crown, really presents a significant differential walk zone benefit to the county as a whole, and the same goes for drive-time access by communities needing a holding facility.

It would be better to concentrate on other aspects of the options when suggesting there is a relative benefit in one or the other.[/quote]

If Crown or Wootton becomes a long-term holding school, it has to be able to hold the displaced student  body. Damascus will prob fit anywhere, but my guess is that any HS needing UMBC as a graduation site like Sherwood or QO will be too large to fit into Wootton.

Not sure anyone has bothered to look into basic stats like that. So much pontificating, but overlooking key details - which is par for the course with MCPS. 
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