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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now.  Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.[/quote]

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here.  Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools."  And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it.  It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better.  It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.[/quote]
+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.[/quote]

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore.  The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions. [/quote]
You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement.   You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs.  But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years?  Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP?   There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton.  No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.[/quote]

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown?  I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

[b]Qui bono?[/b]  Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth. [/quote]

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy.  Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system [b]with reasonably similar overall educational experiences[/b], from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these [i]exactly equal[/i] for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible.  The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council.  We shall see.[/quote]

This is and always has been unrealistic.  Educational experiences are dictated by parental involvement in their kids' education, combined with the teachers in the classroom.  Parents will want to live in safe neighborhoods among those of the same socioeconomic class.  The best teachers will want to work at the best schools.  The best schools are filled with kids (and their parents) who want to maximize their educational experience.

[b]The intentions of MCPS are hidden by design, often disguised by the amorphous (and unverifiable) claim that they are acting in the best interests of all kids in MCPS.[/b]  The more parents whose kids will be affected negatively by an MCPS decision, the less likely this justification is correct.  [b]Simple logic dictates that no decision should have a disproportionate negative affect on one group.[/b]  Here, it's in the best interest of MCPS to keep Wootton as a high-performing school in the neighborhood where it has been for 55 years.  OTOH, it's clearly in the best interest of the developers around Crown to move Wootton there so that they can charge 50%+ for their rental apartments and townhouses within walking distance of Crown.[/quote]

1. What nefarious reason to you believe they have?
2. Almost EVERY decision has more of a negative *effect* on one group than another.  That is politics.  That is life.[/quote]

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