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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.[/quote]

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.[/quote]

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?[/quote]

Bigotry

You won’t be able to sell your home to bigots and they are a large share of the market in that part of the county.[/quote]

The bigger problem is some will want a newer HS and a nice new house, and will not want their old, outdated million dollar homes so values may go down because of that.  And, all the problems Wootton has had.[/quote]

Some of the newest schools in the county are also the lowest performing.  I love how some people think somehow a new building increases academic performance. Those things are not related.  Nobody cares how “new” a school is. [/quote]

Finally, a new voice and point raised after numerous pages of the same arguments being rehashed.  Wootton has done well DESPITE a facility needing remediation.  I wonder if the naysayers on this thread can explain that.[/quote]

Its not the building that makes the school, its the people.  So, if you move the entire school population to a new school you still have the same school in a different location.  [/quote]
ah.. but Wootton parents don't like the idea of GHS students sullying their school.  They'd rather have their kids go to a school that's falling apart, then a brand new one with those GHS kids.

Reminds me of a sitcom I once saw where a racist white man was having a heart attack, and the black man performed CPR on him to save his life.  The white man's kid thanked the black man, but when the racist white man found out that the black man gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation,  he told them that he would've rather died than have a black man save him.[/quote]

Way to turn this into a race issue. It’s not and you know it. You went there because you can’t acknowledge the reality that it won’t be Wootton anymore.  But you hate Wootton and the families who live in the neighborhoods that feed it, so you’re fine with the move. [/quote]

Read the comments from Wootton here.  They are pretty nasty wanting to self segregate.  [/quote]

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