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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel ridiculous asking this 34 pages into a thread, but was looking for a place to ask it. Can you help me understand, as someone who does not understand the geography of the area (I'm just bad at geography and live on the other side of the county) what decision has been made that people are so upset about it, and why people are upset about it?[/quote]

A huge high school building and an artificial turf football field are going to be boarded up and abandoned in a residential neighborhood.  A neighbor school will be shuttered and [b]all of the students that could walk to that school will not need to be buses elsewhere.[/b]  MCPS doesn’t have money for more buses and can’t afford to transport these students.

The bigger issue is that this is just the beginning of Taylor’s plan to shut down school buildings across the county.  He wants to board up dozens of schools for developers to tear down the schools and build condos.  [/quote]

Untrue.  Many many students will still be able to walk to the school.  Potentially even a higher number of students.  It is just a different subset of them.[/quote]

This is why planning is so important.  You are wrong.  Crown was always going to have a walk zone.  Wootton has a walk zone. The Wootton walk zone is being eliminated and all those students must now be bused.  That means more buses, more bus drivers, more diesel fuel under Taylor’s folly. [/quote]

I am not wrong.  The same amount of students will be able to walk to school after this change as before.[/quote]

You are drinking mcps kool aid. Would you allow your kid walk up to 60 minutes one way across 6 lane intersections near a highway?

Even if the number of walkers say the same (it doesn’t), Wootton parkway is a much safer walk. [b]Thats why neighborhood schools matter.[/b] [/quote]

And also the Crown location IS a neighborhood school.  But you might have that same incredibly myopic view of what it means to be a neighborhood.  There is a much higher density of people who live in walking distance to Crown than to the current Wootton location.[/quote]

My brother in Christ you have no idea what you are talking about. Obviously it’s not the same group of walkers, even MCPS isn’t crazy enough to suggest Parkway kids are walkers to Crown. But the number of walkers per MCPS calculation includes kids who would be walking from Hunting Hills, Nolan, and Stonebridge communities. Those kids are going to walk about 45-60 minutes across 6 lanes. That’s why MCPS walker data is a joke.

Of course Crown is a community with walkers, [b]but let’s not pretend Crown HS on net has more walkers.[/b] MCPS walker data is actually a great example of how MCPS doesn’t make data driven decisions. Instead, they make a decision and create whatever data needed to justify their decision making.

Like PP above, just watch this play out during the next round. [/quote]

I don't get your point at all.  I said there will be roughly the same total number of students walking to school at the Crown location than there is at the Parkway location.  This is true.

So, the argument that this decision results in a meaningful amount more buses is false.[/quote]

Ok I’ll try to make this super simple.

1. There won’t be roughly the same by any metric. First, on net, there are more walkers to Wootton than to Crown if you are comparing walkers to walkers in a reasonable way. 
2. As the other PP were explaining, two high schools naturally would produce more walkers than one high school. So even if we pretend #1 isn’t true and let’s even pretend Crown has more walkers than Wootton on net, when you close Wootton…all of Wootton’s walkers go away and now will have to be bussed.

If you don’t get #2 and are suggesting closing an entire school doesn’t result in less walkers, then I give up on explaining this.[/quote]

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