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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the person who asked on the previous page what is going on--what decision has been made and why people are upset. I am trying to piece it together from your answers, but am struggling. It sounds like wootton is a long-existing high school that is in serious disrepair. The community there asked for help. The county put off repairing it, and now, in the recent boundary study, decided to close that school building entirely and send the kids who would have gone there to an existing school in Gaithersburg. Is that correct?[/quote]

You have the essential facts there. I think the deep feelings protesting the removal of Wootton to Crown HS speaks to the organic community attachment we have for our neighborhood schools. We see this in Silver Spring, with the likely closure of SSIMS and the likely moving of Sligo Creek ES. People don't want holding schools in their neighborhoods, they want their local community to have use of the schools.

I really can't blame anyone for feeling this way.[/quote]

That’s precisely it. MCPS is doing very shady things with SSIMS. They didn’t succeed in closing SSIMS so now they are going the de facto closure route. Through the boundary study, they have artificially made SSIMS severely under utilized. During the next es/ms study, they will then use that underutilization and building condition (both of which issues they intentionally created themselves) to justify closing SSIMS.

Even if you have no dog in the Wootton fight, this should be a warning. MCPS will intentionally create problems and conditions to justify their intended goal. The ends always justify the means with them.

SSIMS families see this happening right in front of their eyes. A lot more other folks will be blindsided during es/ms closure. By the time they realize, it’ll be too late. [/quote]

Not just Silver Spring schools. When Option H passed, the resolution also had a lengthy list of elementary school reassignment changes. IMHO, that really speaks to how wrong this whole process is. For a stated high/middle school boundary, to then arbitrarily and unilaterally change elementary assignments... just Wow. And I suspect many of those ES communities don't even know their school was affected. But BOE justifies it as, well we're doing an ES boundary study next, so there will be plenty of time for community engagement. Except that they only cherry pick what they want to hear and then label anyone opposed as racist.

Watch out.
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Just look at how hard Taylor worked to hide the location of two bus depots.  Neighbors to those two locations still haven’t been notified and the County Council has already approved the funding. [/quote]

+1. This is why I’ve been following. Not in Wootton cluster but very much support the efforts to fight MCPS. I’m in a neighboring cluster and have donated to the legal fund, as have many of my neighbors. You can probably guess which one as I am near certain we will be impacted in the next round due to our HS now being overcapacity. (I’m convinced Wayside is being moved out of Churchill).

The echo chamber of DCUM trolls don’t realize how many supporters outside of Wootton are contributing and watching. Then you count the hundreds of Wootton families contributing. This will be a long drawn out fight.

The above PPs are correct. If you pay attention, you know some crazy things are about to go down during the es/ms study. I personally think it’s going to be even worse.

The trolls who are currently defending MCPS and their bad decisions are doing so because it doesn’t affect them… yet. Let’s see what you think during the next round when it affects you. [/quote]

So is your goal here to keep Wootton on the Parkway because you think your kids will end up there and you want it to be closer? Given everything we heard before Taylor’s recommendation was that Wayside was supporting E-H, I AM surprised to hear this![/quote]

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