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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Wayside parent who is unhappy with the changes.

Wootton is a great school, but it’s an extra 20 minutes away from our house. Falls Road is already super congested, especially during rush hour.

My kids can walk and bike to Churchill, but definitely can’t to Wootton.

Hoover and Churchill are right next to each other. They literally share a field. It makes no sense to break Hoover up.

Under all four scenarios, I will have kids in middle school at Hoover and high school at Wooton at the same time.  Coordinating pick ups from after school school programs is going to get harder, and will add to traffic on Falls Road.

[b]And it sad that my kids will make a bunch of friends at Hoover and then have to leave them behind.  [/b]

I have neighbors whose siblings are going to get split up.  They’ll be waiting for different buses to take them to different schools in the mornings.

I know these aren’t huge problems in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a really disruptive change and doesn’t make geographic sense. 
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This is the problem.  People on this board have talked for years about how bad split articulation is for Cabin John.  Giving guidance to people asking about which school district to buy into to avoid CJ for this reason.  Now it looks like they're just shifting the problem to Hoover.  I guess this will inevitably happen in the capacity of Churchill is less than the capacity for CJ+Hoover. One of them will either have to split or will have to be severely undercapacity.  Or I guess they could have only one MS flow into Churchill and then expand the special programs (either special ed or some smallish magnet program) to bring students in from other parts of the broader MCPS district.

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What’s crazy though is the MS enrollment of both CJ and Hoover are significantly less than Churchill especially when you take out the Wootton portion of CJ.[/quote]

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