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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are questions I have for people opposing Option H:

1) If MCPS could guarantee (I know they can't/won't) that the current building wouldn't be neglected and would be upkept to the extent it current is so it wouldn't be an eyesore, would you feel as strongly?

2) If MCPS could guarantee (I know they can't/won't) that the entirety of the current cluster would go to the new school and only be joined by the 500 Gaithersburg residents the documents show rather than the rumored 1000, would you feel as strongly?[/quote]

I think there is a big faction that would get behind Option H, if you could just guarantee #2 with one major caveat. Crown doesn’t have capacity to enroll all of Wootton and 500 kids from Rosemont and Fields Road. That, plus Taylor’s recent comments that “the majority of Wootton” would be enrolled at Crown has parents anxious that they would be the ones pushed out (especially at Cold Spring and Fallsmead, but to a growing extent at Dufief and Travilah too). If the statement was modified to - the entirety of the current cluster will go to Crown and the rest of the school capacity will be filled with students in the walking zone (which I’m guessing would be closer to 300 kids max), then I think Option H would have wider spread Wootton support - though it’s maybe net neutral movement in terms of support because you’d then lose Gaithersburg support due to the inequities on their side.

I also think there’s a growing and vocal faction of both Fallsmead parents and parents with kids who are currently in Frost/Wootton that these conditions won’t satisfy. These are people who feel Wootton is an important community hub and that the proximity of Frost and Wootton enables a lot of the rigorous programming and school climate that they value and that contribute to the quality of the school. For this group, there isn’t a pathway to make Option H attractive.

Obviously purely a thought exercise, since this doesn’t address current trust levels in MCPS which have never been that high, and are currently severely eroded. In a vacuum, I think there would be a world where Wootton parents could be split in their support for Option H - but in our current reality, I think they’re increasingly united against it. [/quote]

This is spot on, I think. Thank you for engaging in this meaningfully and kindly.[/quote]

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