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Anonymous wrote:I'm in the 20878 area and the amount of people posting on nextdoor about save Wootton, you would think the sky is falling.

The Moderately Moco guy is also there trying to push out option H. I guess he lives in that area.

No one gives a damn about Dufief.

And today's post showed a picture with a room full of Asians and whites at Wootton's townhall. You know who is against option H.

One woman said it right - to quote her: "We know what this is truly about. If you do not want your kids to mingle with the "lower class" residents of upper Montgomery County just say so. If it is that bad. There are many private schools in your area or even better homeschooling. Just saying.."

What a bunch of noisemakers - first they want a new building and sign a petition and then when MCPS addresses it they start another petition.

I was there in person and didn’t hear any racist comment like this. The discussion was focused on Wootton renovation. It’s far too easy for someone with a conflict of interest or a personal grudge to fabricate a racist remark and make Wootton look bad.”

I didn’t hear this either. The most I heard was one person at another table talking to the person next to him about property values but he was old and probably rightly worried about a lifetime of investment. Most everything I heard was people angry that it has come to this point with the condition of the school, angry that H was just sprung on us last minute and generally angry at the lack of transparency and clear bias the materials had. And they sent an email today saying the notes they received were almost entirely against H-They noted 4 that were for it.

I hope MCPS listens to Wootton parents and rezones some parts of Churchill to Wootton, and some parts of Wootton to Crown along with parts of Gaithersburg and QO.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in the 20878 area and the amount of people posting on nextdoor about save Wootton, you would think the sky is falling.

The Moderately Moco guy is also there trying to push out option H. I guess he lives in that area.

No one gives a damn about Dufief.

And today's post showed a picture with a room full of Asians and whites at Wootton's townhall. You know who is against option H.

One woman said it right - to quote her: "We know what this is truly about. If you do not want your kids to mingle with the "lower class" residents of upper Montgomery County just say so. If it is that bad. There are many private schools in your area or even better homeschooling. Just saying.."

What a bunch of noisemakers - first they want a new building and sign a petition and then when MCPS addresses it they start another petition.

I was there in person and didn’t hear any racist comment like this. The discussion was focused on Wootton renovation. It’s far too easy for someone with a conflict of interest or a personal grudge to fabricate a racist remark and make Wootton look bad.”

I said this was posted on nextdoor, not at the townhall.

Anonymous wrote:Churchill is 7 miles from Crown, it’s not in the vicinity.
Whitman, Walter Johnson, Wootton, Woodward, BCC, Richard Montgomery are all much closer to Churchill than Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:To your question option H gives them a chance so they should be making their voices heard. Options A-D are worse for Dufief.

Options E-G also keep Dufief with Wootton. IMO G is a non starter but I’m 100% on board with E and F right now. H won’t happen and A-D split the cluster.

And that is how it should be - MCPS splitting up clusters to fill Crown. You cannot have all black and Hispanic population alone go to Crown. It needs to be diverse. Every highschool cluster in Crown's vicinity should be broken up

What makes Wootton and Churchill so special? Don't answer that.

Okay I will rephrase that - What makes Wootton so special?

I checked google maps and Wootton is 3.8 miles from Crown and 3.4 miles from Churchill. 0.4 miles is Negligible. Wootton is also the closest to Crown.

Crown:
Wootton - 3.8 miles
Gaithersburg HS - 4.5 miles
QO - 4.4 miles

These three schools should be the ones filling up Crown. Wootton is not that special. Churchill is overcrowded and MCPS cannot send kids from Wootton to Churchill when they can easily send them to Crown which was built to address overcrowding. MCPS is 100% right with offering modified Option H to Wootton to kill 2 birds with one stone - the safety issues due to mold at Wootton as well as over crowding in Gaithersburg and QO.

Wootton parents put up a stink only because they don't want to mix with brown and hispanic and low ses.

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Coming to Woodward:
Walter Johnson - 1.6 miles
Churchill - 3.2 miles
Wheaton - 3.9 miles
Richard Montgomery - 4.0 miles
Rockville High school - 4.2 miles
Kennedy 5.6 miles

Obviously the rezoning here should happen between Walter Johnson, Churchill, Wheaton, Richard Montgomery and maybe Rockville
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Churchill:
Woodward - 3.2 miles
Walter Johnson - 3.3 miles
*Wootton - 3.4 miles
Richard Montgomery - 3.8 miles

Among these only Wootton is close to Crown, so Wootton cannot be part of the Woodward study and belongs in the Crown study and the other three should be part of Woodward study.

I'm not familiar with the Woodward study but I hope this is what MCPS is doing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in the 20878 area and the amount of people posting on nextdoor about save Wootton, you would think the sky is falling.

The Moderately Moco guy is also there trying to push out option H. I guess he lives in that area.

No one gives a damn about Dufief.

And today's post showed a picture with a room full of Asians and whites at Wootton's townhall. You know who is against option H.

One woman said it right - to quote her: "We know what this is truly about. If you do not want your kids to mingle with the "lower class" residents of upper Montgomery County just say so. If it is that bad. There are many private schools in your area or even better homeschooling. Just saying.."

What a bunch of noisemakers - first they want a new building and sign a petition and then when MCPS addresses it they start another petition.

I was there in person and didn’t hear any racist comment like this. The discussion was focused on Wootton renovation. It’s far too easy for someone with a conflict of interest or a personal grudge to fabricate a racist remark and make Wootton look bad.”

I didn’t hear this either. The most I heard was one person at another table talking to the person next to him about property values but he was old and probably rightly worried about a lifetime of investment. Most everything I heard was people angry that it has come to this point with the condition of the school, angry that H was just sprung on us last minute and generally angry at the lack of transparency and clear bias the materials had. And they sent an email today saying the notes they received were almost entirely against H-They noted 4 that were for it.

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Anonymous wrote:This racist behavior reminds me of the Town Hall meetings for Clarksburg/Seneca Valley HS.

And this is exactly why boundaries should be reviewed every 5-10 years.

Are there really places that consistently change school boundaries every 5-10 years? I’m honestly asking. Where I grew up (not in moco) the schools I went to when I was in school are still the schools I would go to today.

Anonymous wrote:I'm in the 20878 area and the amount of people posting on nextdoor about save Wootton, you would think the sky is falling.

The Moderately Moco guy is also there trying to push out option H. I guess he lives in that area.

No one gives a damn about Dufief.

And today's post showed a picture with a room full of Asians and whites at Wootton's townhall. You know who is against option H.

One woman said it right - to quote her: "We know what this is truly about. If you do not want your kids to mingle with the "lower class" residents of upper Montgomery County just say so. If it is that bad. There are many private schools in your area or even better homeschooling. Just saying.."

What a bunch of noisemakers - first they want a new building and sign a petition and then when MCPS addresses it they start another petition.

I was there in person and didn’t hear any racist comment like this. The discussion was focused on Wootton renovation. It’s far too easy for someone with a conflict of interest or a personal grudge to fabricate a racist remark and make Wootton look bad.”

Anonymous wrote:This racist behavior reminds me of the Town Hall meetings for Clarksburg/Seneca Valley HS.

And this is exactly why boundaries should be reviewed every 5-10 years.

Anonymous wrote:Churchill is 7 miles from Crown, it’s not in the vicinity.
Whitman, Walter Johnson, Wootton, Woodward, BCC, Richard Montgomery are all much closer to Churchill than Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To your question option H gives them a chance so they should be making their voices heard. Options A-D are worse for Dufief.

Options E-G also keep Dufief with Wootton. IMO G is a non starter but I’m 100% on board with E and F right now. H won’t happen and A-D split the cluster.

And that is how it should be - MCPS splitting up clusters to fill Crown. You cannot have all black and Hispanic population alone go to Crown. It needs to be diverse. Every highschool cluster in Crown's vicinity should be broken up

What makes Wootton and Churchill so special? Don't answer that.

I think this seems to be a piece so many are missing. This move doesn’t make any logistical sense as a boundary line. To have kids sent to a high school when they are closer to MULTIPLE other high schools is the problem. If they want to do an actual real boundary study and redraw all the lines in general to make them make actual sense then i’m all for that.

Churchill is 7 miles from Crown, it’s not in the vicinity.
Whitman, Walter Johnson, Wootton, Woodward, BCC, Richard Montgomery are all much closer to Churchill than Crown.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To your question option H gives them a chance so they should be making their voices heard. Options A-D are worse for Dufief.

Options E-G also keep Dufief with Wootton. IMO G is a non starter but I’m 100% on board with E and F right now. H won’t happen and A-D split the cluster.

And that is how it should be - MCPS splitting up clusters to fill Crown. You cannot have all black and Hispanic population alone go to Crown. It needs to be diverse. Every highschool cluster in Crown's vicinity should be broken up

What makes Wootton and Churchill so special? Don't answer that.

This racist behavior reminds me of the Town Hall meetings for Clarksburg/Seneca Valley HS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To your question option H gives them a chance so they should be making their voices heard. Options A-D are worse for Dufief.

Options E-G also keep Dufief with Wootton. IMO G is a non starter but I’m 100% on board with E and F right now. H won’t happen and A-D split the cluster.

And that is how it should be - MCPS splitting up clusters to fill Crown. You cannot have all black and Hispanic population alone go to Crown. It needs to be diverse. Every highschool cluster in Crown's vicinity should be broken up

What makes Wootton and Churchill so special? Don't answer that.

H seems like a good way to save money while providing flexibility for future remodeling. And with more students everyone can find new friends.

Anonymous wrote:To your question option H gives them a chance so they should be making their voices heard. Options A-D are worse for Dufief.

Options E-G also keep Dufief with Wootton. IMO G is a non starter but I’m 100% on board with E and F right now. H won’t happen and A-D split the cluster.

I'm in the 20878 area and the amount of people posting on nextdoor about save Wootton, you would think the sky is falling.

The Moderately Moco guy is also there trying to push out option H. I guess he lives in that area.

No one gives a damn about Dufief.

And today's post showed a picture with a room full of Asians and whites at Wootton's townhall. You know who is against option H.

One woman said it right - to quote her: "We know what this is truly about. If you do not want your kids to mingle with the "lower class" residents of upper Montgomery County just say so. If it is that bad. There are many private schools in your area or even better homeschooling. Just saying.."

What a bunch of noisemakers - first they want a new building and sign a petition and then when MCPS addresses it they start another petition.

With declining enrollments, they always could save $ by responding to expected Council underfunding of the CIP request by dropping the Cold Spring project and redistricting the neighborhoods to other elementaries in the upcoming Elementary boundary study.