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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like this discussion could use some grounding in numbers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the actual Option H involves:

- 1800 existing Wootton students +
- About 400 additional students 
= 2200 students in the Crown building

Is that correct? [/quote]
No, 1900 Wootton students  +500ish in crown/fields road per option table [/quote]

Again, Fields Road is not at Wootton/Crown in option H.[/quote]

And again, it makes logical sense for them to go to Crown as it was and still should be their school. It was for them. The gaithersburg community is highly opposed to option H and have made it clear that the only way they might accept it is if fields road is added. Don’t be so focused on what is in option H in written form. There is so much more.

IMO-I think there is literally no chance Wootton moves to Crown. There is simply not enough support for it and it’s making MCPS look so bad (I mean if they could actually look worse). [/quote]

Gaithersburg was promised a school.  It is unfair to take it away for some rich families who are complaining when no other school is offered that.  [/quote]

Reading all posts conclude that Wootton HS is not in a bad shape as they claim for to the public. They don't want new Crown HS, and that means they better not to complain further to the public that MCPS do not hear them or ignore them. Gaithersburg probably do not mind getting a new Crown HS no matter if Wootton is moving there or not. It is just that the public resource "Crown HS" could be more better used effectively, efficiently and timely in option H. [/quote]
I think you posted like at least dozens of times of the same comments. Seriously Wootton in a bad shape is not equivalent to accepting closing the school and merge to a new school. 
[/quote]PP gets it.  They just want to see  a W school destroyed.[/quote]

You over value your w schools. Most of us don’t care.  Some of us choose not to put our kids in those environments as we came from them and know the culture isn’t healthy.

What I do care about is the lack of equity in terms of course offerings, facilities and stuff.  Our kids shouldn’t have to go without science labs, sports equipment and uniforms, music and theater, photography and other things while your kids have access to it.

So, while our kids go without and are in equally bad facilities you want to shift more funding to your schools vs allow all kids safe environments and have access to what they need.

We could comfortably pay cash for a new home to go to a W school but it’s the culture and attitudes that keeps us where we are at.  [/quote]

This is a work of fiction. Nobody who  could provide better for their kids would choose not to. Give me a break. [/quote]

Define better?   You need to look at the full picture and not just your ego.  I very purposefully picked where we lived as I grew up in a w school and it’s not what we wanted.  Except for the lack of offerings, my kids are happy at their schools and the schools are much more down to earth.  And less competition for college.  [/quote]
I can totally understand someone who grew up in the W schools not wanting that environment for their kids. But I'm curious which school did you pick instead? There are plenty of good, non-W schools that aren't lacking science labs, sports equipment/uniforms, music and theater - schools such as QO, RM, Rockville, Northwest, etc. Which school did you pick instead that is lacking all those things?[/quote]

Many schools don’t have it.  Either the boosters and pta provide or they go without.  We just do activities outside of Mcps.  [/quote]

Or, imagine you just “paid cash” as you said you are able for a home that would have your kids attend a school that actually could provide these things instead of making your kids go to a school you could use for your own virtue signaling needs. [/quote]

DP.  It's one public school system, operating at the county level.  Should it be failing to provide reasonably equivalent services to the individuals it is charged by the state to serve?  Or should we do away with the concept of equal protection?[/quote]As a W school parent, I wish things were equal.  Then our schools would get a lot more money.  Currently MCPS spends millions more in schools populated by poorer families than wealthier families.  Pretending that east county is somehow being short-changed is simply lying.[/quote]

You really don’t know the disparities?   Be real.  Your schools have robust course offerings, science labs, lots of stem, hand on equipment, nice uniforms, instruments, sounds systems, etc.  we have things that are from the 70 or 80s at best with no hope of replacement.   My kids have never had a science lab, just a teacher lecturing and worksheets, falling apart art and music equipment, etc.  Just compare the actual course catalog.  [/quote]I know that MCPS spends millions more per year in schools populated by poorer families than wealthier families.  And what you described is exactly what my kids' experienced in HS.  If we actually got an equal share of the budget, things could be fantastic.  But MCPS is equity-obsessed so things are quite bad.  As for courses, the offerings in each school reflect the ability of the students in those schools.  It would be a waste of resources to offer advanced classes in schools without enough students to populate them.[/quote]

It’s this exactly. And I have personal experience with it-my HS in another state was an awful very low performance school. I signed up for AP History for 12th grade and they cancelled that and nearly all the other AP classes that year because no class had more than 3 people sign up-3! They are not offering a large array of advanced and AP classes at every school because there isn’t enough interest. [/quote]

Are you sure there is no interest?  Our school actively discourages kids from taking AP classes outside of history (which has the strongest teachers in terms of how they teach).  They push students into slowing down math and is very critical and will shut down discussions of taking things like Calc BC.  They claim there is no interest in other AP's even though parents are vocal at PTA meetings about it.  Our AP will not even talk to parents whose kids are in AP classes needing help and the answer is drop out of AP classes (even if you are reaching out for something not related) - it was really bizzare.  They refuse to engage on schedules if kids are in AP classes (both my kids and I have reached out about next years course offerings and zero responses).  And, of course there is no accountability of making staff anwser emails or work with students or their families.  [/quote]If this is true, it's an absolute travesty and someone needs to be fired.[/quote]

That would take answering emails. [/quote]

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