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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️

What are you claiming the Board is doing? They're not doing anything yet.

No they haven’t, but if they pick option H, they would immediately be subject to legal challenges.

Taylor would more likely simply recommend boundary changes for Wootton to include the close-to-Crown areas. And then separately initiate the official proceedings to relocate Wootton.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Lol awesome use Asian kids to improve QO ratings instead of you know…maybe doing something to actually improve QO’s academic performance?

And why not? Isn't that what they already do with Blair magnet and Richard Montgomery IB?

The Tiger Asian parents will make sure QO is not just about Sports and will push for academics.

Do you realize how dumb this argument is? Blair and RM do it so it must be right? If you actually care about academic performance, especially the performance of low income under-resourced kids, the solution would be to actually fix the root problems NOT let’s bring a bunch of Asian kids to mask the problem and pretend like they don’t exist.

Also—remind me: are we for or against using kids of color as political pawns and tools? It seems like when it’s Asian kids, it’s ok to use them.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

Reading is fundamental - I said I don't care ifWootton moves to Crown or not, and implied that if Option H is not chosen to prevent lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you all and breaks up the cluster - nothing you can do if MCPS moves Dufief and Travilah to QO. Both schools are closer to QO and makes no sense to bus them to Wootton 4.5 miles when QO is down the road within 2 miles.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Lol awesome use Asian kids to improve QO ratings instead of you know…maybe doing something to actually improve QO’s academic performance?

And why not? Isn't that what they already do with Blair magnet and Richard Montgomery IB?

The Tiger Asian parents will make sure QO is not just about Sports and will push for academics.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Tell me you don’t know anything about the law without telling me.

All these trolls who are salivating at the thought of breaking up the Wootton cluster will sure be upset when H isn’t chosen.

H is illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️

What are you claiming the Board is doing? They're not doing anything yet.

No they haven’t, but if they pick option H, they would immediately be subject to legal challenges.

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Lol awesome use Asian kids to improve QO ratings instead of you know…maybe doing something to actually improve QO’s academic performance?

Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

Anonymous wrote:I don't care whether Wootton goes to Crown or stays at current location but I do care about the fact nearby Travilah and Dufief kids are getting bussed to Wootton and Fields Rd and Brown Station are getting bussed to QO.

I hope that changes and to the people with the lawsuits, I hope MCPS sticks it to you and moves these 2 schools to QO and moves out Fields Rd and Brown Station from QO.

QO needs some diversity - currently we have majority white and Hispanic kids at QO because of all this bussing. QO used to be a great school and now it is a 5/10. Some of this Asian population will improve QO's ratings.

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️

What are you claiming the Board is doing? They're not doing anything yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn’t mean what the Board doing is legal. But I guess you don’t care about following the law? Maybe when the Board has to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on lawsuits, you’ll care then 🤷‍♂️

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.

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Anonymous wrote:Many students from Fields Road are walkable to Crown. They should be sent to Crown. The City of Gaithersburg Mayor even came out to support modifying H to include Fields Road. Moving Fields Road would also help alleviate overcrowding from QO (which currently has 18 portables) while moving parts of Rosemont ES would help alleviate overcrowding at GHS.

The problem is if you put Fields Road and parts of Rosemont into Crown, all of the Wootton cluster cannot also fit in Crown.

Remember, the Superintendent can take pieces of every option in making his proposal. There’s nothing to stop him from cutting up Wootton cluster (say removing Cold Spring and Fallsmead), moving the rest of Wootton to Crown, and add in Rosemont and Fields Road.

Most Wootton families have no problems with adding students to their cluster. What they have a problem with is their cluster being broken apart. And the reason why Wootton’s current location is beloved isn’t because the building itself is somehow magically responsible for academic achievement, but because it really is a community hub. There are so many connections between Frost MS and Wootton HS. They are currently on a shared campus!

Not to mention what are the practical implications of turning Wootton into a holding school? If Wootton is a run-down unsafe building that the Board is refusing to renovate, how does turning it into a holding school make it magically safe for Damascus and Magruder students? What are the practical safety implications of bussing kids all the way from Damascus and Magruder into Wootton Parkway—which is a single-lane road—while also bussing all of the previously walkable Wootton kids out of Wootton parkway to Crown? The morning congestion is already terrible on both Wootton Parkway and around Sam Eig/270. This isn’t going to help.

The research on road safety is clear. The farther kids travel, the more bussing involved, the more there will be accidents and deaths. For example, can you begin to imagine a bunch of inexperienced teenage drivers driving quite literally across the county going from Damascus to Wootton?

Removing an ES which was never presented in all previous options last minute is a problem. It’s not enough community engagement. Closing Wootton and relocating to crown is also introduced late and doesn’t have enough public engagement and not legal in the boundary study process.

Exactly! Why is no one talking about this? Option H will close Wootton—that is inappropriate for a boundary study. Also everyone should be alarmed. If MCPS can just close a school rather than renovate it, maybe Damascus and Magruder are next.

This thread is full of crown trolls dreaming that the Wootton asset will be transferred to their neighborhood and skyrocket their property values. Any legal or reasonable argument is conveniently ignored. Reality check is coming in about a month.

Say it louder for the people in the back.
MCPS sure does have money for litigation but not for renovation schools!

MCPS better have a lot of it. Wootton families are going to file one or more lawsuits over this. Apparently the BOE/MCPS members blanched when they heard this during the hearing. A friendly judge could slap an injunction on the entire decision process, leading to discovery and depositions. Who knows, maybe some of the developers around Crown will get pulled into it. Rest assured, MCPS does not want any part of that.

A formal legal notice was already sent to the Board. Suffice it to say, it’s getting very interesting… MCPS Office of General Counsel is now involved.