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[quote=Anonymous][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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I honestly don’t know if you guys are just being purposely dense at this point or you really don’t see how incredibly stupid it is to keep insisting the school is renovated FOR SOMETHING else but not to stay Wootton. If the school is going to be renovated and not sit empty then it should absolutely be renovated for Wootton. It makes absolutely no sense to have no problem with the school being renovated for literally any other use but have a problem for it to be renovated for the current community. [/quote]

The renovations that MCPS envisions as being necessary to bring a holding facility up to usability ("anyone can tolerate such conditions for 2 or so years...") are significantly different from those they envision as being necessary when addressing a facility to be occupied long term by a single community.  At the same time, the relatively large planning, start-up, etc., costs and financially unaccoun community impacts associated with capital projects mean that they wouldn't engage in a project that only would go that part way (up to holding school usability) to be followed by one that would go the rest of the way (up to lomg-term usability by a single community).

The costs for that holding-school usability project for Wootton, should Wootton move to Crown, would be considerably less than those for the various scopes which would be, or previously have been, considered for Wootton renovation if Wootton were to remain open at its current location.[/quote]

pp here. I was specifically responding to the poster who said it should be made into a permanent special needs hub. Which would in fact, be a long term community just like Current Wootton. But again, even if they made the necessary repairs to make it acceptable as a holding school, then as a wootton parent I would then absolutely be happy to wait until 2035 for the more intense renovations. And also, the kids go to HS for 4 years, that really isn’t significantly different than 2. So I don’t think that argument really holds weight. [b]And i’m not considering the teachers/administration because they can essentially transfer to another school if they so choose[/b]-the students don’t have that option.[/quote]

[Click & Clack voice] Eh, yeh see, that's yawr prowblem right theah. [/voice]

Jocularity about that inconsiderate notion aside, and noting that 4 years is more than 2, and that families often experience far more than 4 years as multiple children pass through a school, due to the inefficiencies and community effects, also mentioned, of condicting a series of smaller capital projects at one site, a follow-up project likely wouldn't be started until more like 2050.  That is, unless MCPS decided to use the site as another high school instead of as a holding school -- say, if development in the area saw a rebound in student population.[/quote]

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