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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I missed something and the rollout of these four new options.

Last time I looked it was just A through D.

When did they release these newer options and what does each one reflect?  ie H is moving Wootton to Crown and closing Wootton.  What are E through G?[/quote]

Additional boundary study options came out yesterday, options E-H. For Crown, this was to include the possibility that Crown turns into a holding school. So H is pretty radical.

What concerns me is that if the "Wootton to Crown" becomes the leading option, then this is it. There aren't other possibilities.

And we don't know how the proposed regional model will change. They already arbitrarily swapped Damascus and QO with no input. I could see them sneak in a swap for Wootton to Crown, from Region 4 to 5, even after the BOE votes, and call it their continuing "iterative process." AKA MCPS has no clue what they are doing and making it up as they go along without regard to the implications to real students/families/staffing/logistics-bussing/cost.[/quote]

I guess if Option H is the final selected one, MCPS won't move Wootton (the new Crown) to Region 5, as Region 4 would only have 3 HSs if that happens, while Region 5 currently has 4 HSs excluding Crown. Crown people must be quite supportive of Option H as this can isolate them away from the Gaithersburg. That's just my wild guess.[/quote]

It looks like it's only half of Crown that gets included in this option. Only part of Rosemont Elem would go to Crown with the Wootton clusters.

Why is Cold Spring suddenly wanting to go to Churchill?? There isn't room at Churchill and they have never gone to Churchill...really, five extra minutes on a bus is not a big deal. [/quote]

Well until now their high school was 2.6 miles away and no need to go into the highway. With Crown, most likely buses will use I-270 and longer commute time. Churchill is right around the corner it will reduce commute time and the need to use 270 twice a day. [/quote]

You can't have everything. Crown's new facility will enable a criteria-based STEM program for Wootton Cluster students, and that's a good thing. The regional programming model will de facto disassemble Blair's magnet, but we could have an outstanding STEM program at Wootton if the science facilities are optimized in the new building.[/quote]

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