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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, they have been pretty clear. They want to move Wootton to the Crown building. That means permanently. I would operate under that assumption.

They want to make the current building a holding school. There is NO PLAN RIGHT NOW to ever turn it back into Wootton.

Could that change if circumstances allow in the future like Woodward? Maybe. But in terms of the situation right now- the answer is that it is not going to become Wootton again.

Maybe there will be another boundary study in 10-15 years in which case everything is back on the drawing board in terms of where current Wootton feeders go. In fact, it's likely, and not only going to impact Wootton feeders.
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But there is no CIP for Wootton to be turned into a holding school or for Magruder to use it (which is why Magruder is so upset).

Can anyone guarantee that Wootton will be turned into a holding school?[/quote]

No. It's something Taylor has indicated he would like to do, pending budget. As of right now, there is no actual plan for Wootton building and they cannot give a timeline on holding school until they have CIP money. [/quote]

And why didn’t Taylor lay out all of this when he first proposed Option H last December?  Because the outcry would be deafening.

This is exactly why there is so much skepticism. [/quote]

Didn't he though? All of these hopes for the Wootton property were per the community. The board never indicated anything other than the fact Wootton would be moved. Moved means moved. [/quote]

Nope. Moved in this case means closed because there is no plan to keep the current building operating as a school.[/quote]

Correct. The building is closed, the school is moved. [/quote]

Nope. The school is being carved up AND its boundaries have to be moved in order to transplant its kids to Crown. You might have an argument if Wootton’s facility will be kept open as a holding school, but that’s not the plan right now. [/quote]

Options E through H and the Superintendent's recommendation came out [i]after[/i] the CIP request had been planned out.  Part of the reason for E-H, if not the main one, was the population analysis that went into the CIP request.  The realization that fewer HS seats were needed combined with the opportunity to use a holding school to accelerate project schedules and achieve savings vs. on-site/start-then-stop-then-start-again (as they would need to do for some components with students on campus) drove those additional options.

So expecting to have Wootton programmed with CIP funds is putting the cart before the horse.  It was in the presentation, but with the funding window in the years after the CIP period, as it was envisioned as going after Magruder.  Planning/approval/programming of funding for Wootton's remediation to serve as a holding school wouldn't be until the next CIP cycle, or, much more likely, as an out-of-cycle amendment [i]after they knew whether it would be Crown or Wootton as the holding school[/i], which won't happen until the BOE approves a boundaries plan.

Of course, despite the difficulty some on the board may have in grasping the particulars (based on their questions/discussion in BOE meetings), one has to think that there has been [i]some[/i] inkling of this passed between Taylor (or his staff) and board members.  It would have been better to lay it all out, but we know that isn't the MCPS (or Montgomery County) way.[/quote]

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