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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][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]

Oh please, cry me a river! Gaithersburg high is gorgeous compared to Wootton!  [/quote]

Most of our schools are falling apart.  Take crown or wait your turn.  Simple.  [/quote]

They already say that they will oppose Option H and they will wait for their turns at 2035 without any fuss anymore. So we should let them be.[/quote]

But they don't want to let Wootton be.  They want to forcibly move Wootton to Crown, regardless of what Wootton families want.[/quote]

No one cares.  We care about our taxes going up to pay for all this.  If you don’t like crown and refuse to wait your turn for repairs, again, what suggestions for solutions do you have.   The condition at many schools is bad but there are ones far worse than Wootton that need priority. [/quote]

You keep saying this but there is actually only one school in worse condition than Wootton per the actual data. So that is not plural as you keep saying. [/quote]

No, there are multiple schools they just aren’t complaining. [/quote]

No, you are wrong. There is an actual rating system MCPS used when the schools are evaluated for problems. And Wootton is the second worst. This is from the BOE-I didn’t make it up. [/quote]

Those things change depending on when incidents happen.  You will be getting repairs, just not starting today.  Don’t like it, come up with a better solution or funds to pay for it.  You complain but cannot offer a reasonable solution.  Why is that?[/quote]

You know there is more than one poster one here right? I don’t know who you are responding to but all i’m saying is based on how the school system rates the schools condition, Wootton is second on the list as far as the highest rating. Because you keep saying that it is wrong and it is not-it’s based on the data from the BOE.

Anyway-if I had to offer a solution it would be to fix a couple of the really emergent things over the next couple of summers and just stay on the CIP. Which is the same as many people want. Of course you will come back with “there is no money for even the most emergent of repairs” and all i’ll say is somehow when there is a flood or a ceiling collapses at a school it seems money suddenly appears to fix it. [/quote]

They need to reassess that if ceilings are falling down and widespread flooding that could kill someone.

Immediate emergency fixes isn’t what is being discussed.  Wootton is on the list for renewal and you don’t want to wait, nor take crown, so what reasonable solution can you offer that is equitable to other schools?[/quote]

I already answered you. I don’t have magical answers-just like nobody does. If we have to stay on the CIP and nothing is fixed then so be it. [/quote]

With all your complaining I would think you could offer funds that could be taken from other things in the budget.

The only way to get all these schools fixed and improved is to do a full line by line audit, cut out the waste, and get real about spending.  They should be showing full transparency in spending tax payer money as Taylor and the BOE promised.  Instead of fighting over take crown at least temporarily and hold those in charge accountable.

Wootton has had updates and is in line for a major renovation.  Other schools are equally bad and not even on the list.  Ideally all the old buildings should be torn down and not just fixed as there is no good way to fix a building with mold once it’s in the school which is why I’d jump at crown as it will be hopefully a much healthier environment for everyone. [/quote]

Again, there is more than one poster-so I don’t know why you seem to think I made all these comments “complaining”. But I don’t disagree that there needs to be major transparency in regards to spending and a full audit. [/quote]Save your breath.  PP is pro-bussing and just wants to see one less W school.[/quote]

Then stay at Wootton and stop complaining and wait your turn.  Or, call crown Wootton.  [/quote]

No we are not calling Crown Wootton.

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Ok, just call it Wootton.  Problem solved.  Maybe you should kick out any student who has a b average to keep it exclusive?   And anyone whose parents don’t earn $400k or more a year.  [/quote]

DP. Envy is a poor way to live your life. If Wootton families don’t want Crown, then leave them alone. You no longer need to worry about how much they earn or anything else about them.

Your arguments seem more about how you feel towards Wootton families. You should ask yourself why you feel this way, especially when it’s not an accurate description of most Wootton families. [/quote]

It may not be accurate but that’s how you are allowing your school to be represented.

You all keep complaining, we’re given two reasonable solutions, are refusing both, so please share better options?

You realize a parent testified to the board to deny a low income school needed repairs and switch that money to oWootton!   Not a good look.  [/quote]

Different PP. But honestly, it seems like you need to get a life. You come across as driven by hatred and jealousy, with nothing better to do than bash Wootton across hundreds of pages[/quote]

Wootton parents are bashing other families, schools and neighborhoods to keep separate.  That’s how all this got started.  One even demanded to the BOE to stop a renovation at a low income elementary school for Wootton.  You all are in line.  Your school per the newspaper has gotten regular improvements.  Every school deserves repairs.  [/quote]

You keep posting the same thing on this thread. Wootton families want to be left alone. Fix a few issues (like every other school building) and leave Wootton in place.

But you can’t stand the thought of this. You seem to want to punish Wootton families for their success. Why is that?[/quote]

Not PP, but certain Wootton posters are in fact bashing other families, schools, and neighborhoods.  And it is not a good look.
Make an argument about walkability and a community hub that will become vacant.  Those are valid arguments against option H.

The rest?  Elitist segregationism and fear-mongering.[/quote]

One could say the same thing about some of the posts that dismissed walk ability and community hub as a smokescreen for segregation and elitism. I appreciate your not doing so and agreeing those are valid arguments. Unfortunately, there are still those declaring the move to Crown is in the best interests of MCPS, regardless of the effect on Wootton families and a community that has existed for 55 years. [/quote]

They also ignore concerns about overcrowding and the fact that it will continue to worsen over time if Wootton moves to Crown with so many new development in that area. [/quote]

Option H, as it exists, leaves over 200 seats unfilled at Crown in 2031-32.[/quote]

Those numbers are resident students only.[/quote]

Yes.  Like for all the other high schools in the study, the projections are for students within the catchment, with unspecified adjustment at each to account for the 600 projected across Poolesville's magnet catchment area and the 500 projected Seneca Valley's magnet catchment area.  How they addressed this for schools like Wootton which currently feed to Blair instead of Poolesville is part of that lack of specification.  The net affect of magnet population under a to-be-finalized regional regime also is not captured.

All that said, the Option H projection for Wootton at Crown is 90.1% utilization, third lowest among the schools in the Crown study to Watkins Mill's 85.7% and RM's 89.3%, with Churchill topping utilization at 102.4%.[/quote]

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