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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Wootton parent this is utterly ridiculous. Going to have to tap into more of my family money and send my 3 kids to Georgetown prep. [/quote]
Just because the school is moving 3 miles away? Wouldn't GP be even farther?
Help me understand your logic. [/quote]

As it’s been stated time and time and time again. It will not be the same school when it moves. Initially they will take some students form Rosemont and then probably Fields road, after that the plan is to continue to fill the empty spots with more GHS kids. How could you possibly think Wootton would be a the same academic level after that happens? [/quote]

With all of those in the current Wootton catchment attending, [i]that cohort[/i] would tend to perform similarly, with similar family engagement (e.g., PTA), academic support (e.g., outside enrichment), and available electives/advanced courses (at least based on how MCPS has allowed such differences to arise among schools thus far).  If the [i]added[/i] student population from right around Crown happened not to have similar academic/family characteristics, then the school may not have the same [i]average[/i] performance (e.g., scores on tests or the like), but the impact on individual Wootton students likely would amout to greater exposure (e.g., socially, though that would be something mitigated somewhat, if not entirely, by personal preference) to those who are not as similar to them as are those from the current catchment.

Moreover, with the regions, the very high performing Wootton-catchment students who would be going to Blair SMCS under the current paradigm will, instead, be staying at Wootton, presuming that it maintains the designation as the STEM magnet for the region.  There may also be high performing students who elect to stay instead of going to any regional IB, with RMIB, then in another region.  Since the projections driving the options are based on home-catchment student populations (and not on magnet placement outside the home school) those two groups already are counted in the tables, though any net result of the magnets within the region remains unclear.

I haven't seen any plan to "continue to fill the empty spots with more GHS kids."  Per another poster a few pages back, adding the 2031-32 projections for the Option G Wootton population (no catchment change) with the immediate Crown-area population from the same option, where Crown would "serve" around 500 students in the immediate area in addition to being a holding school, would proxy for the projected population if Fields Road ES were added to Option H.  That's a bit off, since there is a portion of Diamond ES that is directed to Crown in Option G which would not be directed there with Option H plus Fields Road; in addition, smaller upcoming ES boundary changes may be met with conforming adjustments to HS boundaries, with the effect, again, of remediating projected overcrowding.  Even though these two considerations would mean Wootton at Crown would not be overcapacity by as much as the 215 suggested by that poster, it would have no more capacity to "fill the empty spots with more GHS kids" (or Churchill kids, or QO kids, or...).

From Travilah to Fields Road (and everywhere else in MCPS, of course), the school system has no less responsibility to one neighborhood than another in meeting the collective needs of the students, even if the prevalences of the types of need (and the costs of addressing them) differ from neighborhood to neighborhood and school community to school community.  Seeking to sequester other communities away from one's own, with the result of better-than-average service for the latter at the expense of worse-than-average for the former is...well, ew.[/quote]

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