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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The enrollment data was known, and the 11th hour under-enrollment "revelation" was obviously known as well. The originally presented options were a farce; all of the feedback was discarded and this new "option" will be rubber stamped. This process has been a rug-pull. MCPS will plow ahead with this option and bulldoze the Wootton community.[/quote]

The enrollment projections are done each year with the input of Montgomery Planning, and change from year to year, though MCPS does not use changed zoning capacity, but approved/started builds, so it may lag.  (Or not -- there is a lot of under-utilized extant zoning, so much that one questions why Planning and the Council have pushed for all of the zoning densification involved in Thrive 2050, the corridors plans, etc.)

The timing of the underenrollment "reveal" was not immediate, but the extent of projection changes was not known until after the second set of options was commissioned.  Option H was not even on the table for the third set (use of a holding school to accelerate renovations and realize overall savings) until late in that process, and the somewhat limited creativity with regard to boundaries seen in that option may have been the result of relatively rushed inclusion.

All of the options presented were to show [i]possibilities[/i] for MCPS-internal and MCPS-BOE discussion, and to garner public comment.  (Performative or not -- I'd say more performative than we would like it to be.)  None of them, though, was presented to be an unalterable final recommendation candidate.

All that said -- yes, it has been a rug-pull.  And, yes, MCPS is, unfortunately, likely to decide and go rather than engage to allow community agency.

And [i]that[/i] said, I think we all know that, whether for schools or otherwise, some MoCo communities get that agency more than others...[/quote]

There are also some political elements (often backed by developers) that get their way over those MoCo communities - assuming the political price at the ballot box isn't too high.[/quote]

I would not argue with that observation, but, even then, there are some MoCo communities on which developers and the county tend to tread much more lightly.[/quote]

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