Reply to Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At some point people will think before they vote for local officials.   People who want to save Wootton probably voted for the people trying to eliminate it.    Go figure[/quote]

No one is eliminating it.  They are offering to move it to a new building per the parents tantrums.  Other schools are just as bad or worse.  [/quote]You mean move it to a new building miles from the original, change the name, change the student body, and probably change the admin and teachers.  In other words, eliminate Wootton and open Crown.  Just admit that you want one less W school.[/quote]

Why would the and teachers change.  And, all schools are having student body changes.   You are creating drama where there is none.  I don’t care about w schools.  You care. [/quote]

Teachers wouldn't change (except normal attrition).  Who cares about the name???  That's a crazy criterion.  My understanding is that the Wootton student body would remain in tact and some students would be added.  So that's not particularly disruptive to the current student body.

The only people who I think have valid concerns are those who are currently walkers to Wootton because being bussed to a school a few miles away is legitimately very different from what they anticipated.  I don't think that outweighs the greater good (a huge % of the county will be undergoing some inconvenience) but I think it's a legitimate gripe.  Everything else is superficial and irrelevant.  The tradeoff for non walkers is that they get a bright and shiny new school but it's apparently a bigger (more students) school than they were at before.  [/quote]

Potentially larger schools is a concern for some right?

I know families were complaining about the proposed size for Seneca Valley when they were doing redoing boundaries for it when it was rebuilt.  Which by the way, looks like it has a capacity for 2519 students.

Currently the capacity for Crown is stated to be 2219 students but there's talk that it can expand to 2700.  So isn't too far from the numbers that Seneca Valley has that people were complaining about.

When we were shopping for elementary schools, school size was a major factor in picking a school.  In hindsight there are a lot of drawbacks in underenrolled/schools with smaller enrollment.  Where class sizes/ratios are still the same.  So if you don't have enough students to justify another teacher for the school, your kids are stuck in a large class size.

Then the smaller schools are usually targetted for things with bad administrators who gets to implement their experimental theories or principles.  Or they get targetted, like how Wootton had no issues with capacity.  So gets constantly overlooked and passed over for CIP renovations.  Got drawn into the Crown discussion from the beginning even though Crown was initially built for the overcrowded Gaithersburg schools.  It was said that Wootton was included due to overcrowding at Churchill.  But they didn't even bother looking at the other side of the boundaries that Churchill borders or look into removing any programs at Churchill that has out of the area students.  And now they're forcing the unwanted move on Wootton families.

So personally I kind of see the downside of smaller schools now.  But it might still be a factor that some other families look for and were expecting.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics