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[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]

How sad. What school failed you?  An entire high school walk zone is being eliminated when Wootton HS closes.  That means for the same number of students, MCPS will have to increase the number of buses in operation.  Instead of two walk zones, there will only be one.   [/quote]

Let me break this down for you:
Today there are zero walkers to Crown.  
When this goes into effect there will be many walkers to the Crown location.
Roughly the same number of walkers who currently walk to the Wootton location.

It is not an increase.  [/quote]

Praying you aren’t a MCPS admin troll.  Let’s try this:

2 schools with walkers - 1 school with walkers = 1 school with walkers.

MCPS built a new high school.  That school would have walkers.  Taylor is now eliminating the walkers from another school that was planned to be open and functioning.  There would have been two hs with walkers.  That was the plan.  [b]The budget must now change[/b] because Taylor is eliminating an entire hs of walkers.  Planners need to buy more buses, hire more drivers.  [/quote]

Are you trying to say that there is an overall increase in expense because a few more buses are needed?  As compared to what?  The overall expense of operating an entire high school?  Seems like this is the much more fiscally prudent option to buy a few buses than open and run an additional high school facility.[/quote]

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