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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You Wootton petition people are wasting your time.  There is zero chance that Wootton and QO are not getting shuffled around.  There will be major changes to Wootton and QO.  [/quote]
+1 I don't know about major, but yes, Wootton boundary will change.[/quote]

The thing is, Wootton is not overcrowded and is not projected to be overcrowded in the future. There was no reason to include Wootton in the Crown study in the first place, other than to target them for FARMS and DEI goals. Churchill could have been included in the other boundary study for Woodward to address their supposed overcrowding problem and Wootton left out of both studies. A lot of the Asian community in the Wootton district (not including me since I'm not Asian, but many in my neighborhood are) feel like the Board of Education is targeting them unfairly, and I can't really say I blame them. I agree with them that it's BS that Wootton was included in any of the boundary studies to begin with. The Board could accomplish all their goals without changing anything about the Wootton cluster, so it makes sense for the Wootton community to push back as much as possible on any boundary changes for Wootton. Will it work, maybe not, but they have to try, and being fatalistic about the result just guarantees their voices won't be heard.[/quote]

Wootton is not overcrowded because their community always yells loudest to keep their school from becoming overcrowded and then other schools get overcrowded instead: see Fallsgrove being zoned for RM due to concerns about overcrowding even though its walking distance to Wootton and all thr Fallsgrove kids get busses to RM instead. Wootton is included because all neighboring clusters need to be included. Wootton continues to be undercapacity due to this exclusionary mindset and the fact that BoE has historically given in to their loud voices.[/quote]

This could not be further from the truth. Ritchie park ES is zoned for RM to balance RM diversity.  One part is actually split off Wootton to achieve this agenda. [/quote]

Okay but again why is Fallsgrove zoned for Ritchie Park and not Lakewood? Fallsgrove kids could also walk to Lakewood. It is 100% about overcrowding concerns at Wootton as was mentioned by Mayor Krasnow at the City of Rockville council meeting in 2000 where they recommended placing Fallsgrove at RM due to overcrowding concerns at Wootton. That is the concern written in the meeting minites which you can read yourself:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.rockvillemd.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/2868%3FMOBILE%3DON&ved=2ahUKEwj7r9y-1OGNAxVgRDABHVDCGPoQFnoECCcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw12Ih0sbKw42iu9zQV_4MJ8
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Ah so this is where the 11th commandment for Montgomery County Public Schools comes from: “Thou shalt not overcrowd the sacred Wootton cluster.” How do we get that for other clusters?[/quote]

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