Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:53
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To remind everyone of something that should be obvious: It does not matter whether you are in the walk zone or North Potomac; a decent part of your property value is due to the fact that you are zoned for Wootton. If Wootton goes away that school premium goes away. I realize this will delight the trolls but this comes as part of the package.
Your property value will not change because of the schools. Really, there are homes for 800K, that is pretty typical in most neighborhoods, even ones you consider the ghetto.
Are you serious? Are you implying that you will pay the same price for the same house no matter what school? give me a break.
We bought our house for location and neighborhood and didn't really put that much thought into the schools, even though we were fine with them. We bought before having kids.
That’s great. But it doesn’t change the fact that houses are priced the way they are because of the schools they are zoned for. Just because you didn’t care doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
So, how do you explain houses going for 900K-2 million in areas you'd consider the ghetto? Houses possibly worth more than yours?
You know that’s not true. And if you did find houses that meet this criteria it would be because of the ridiculously large size. But even still, if a huge house is selling for 2 million in Downtown Gaithersburg-it would be selling for 6 million in Bethesda. Facts.
You understand it takes someone pretty wealthy to buy a $1-6 million dollar house given the interest rates? Most average people aren't spending that.
You’re describing crown people. Their houses are more expensive than most Wootton houses.
This isn’t about race seriously as crown has mostly white wealthy people.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:51
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.
If you are so passionate about this why aren’t you pushing for This to happen at Whitman, which is way less diverse than Wootton. Or do you only care about it happening at Wootton and nowhere else? Why do you think that is?
Wootton families don't want any students of color - black or hispanic, except they may make an exception for high income or IQ. That is what is concerning. Its not really about the move to Crown but self-segregating.
We oppose the closure to protect students and community, not because of race. Attacks on Wootton seem to be escalated today. Wanting to keep the location is being unfairly labeled as racists.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:50
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To remind everyone of something that should be obvious: It does not matter whether you are in the walk zone or North Potomac; a decent part of your property value is due to the fact that you are zoned for Wootton. If Wootton goes away that school premium goes away. I realize this will delight the trolls but this comes as part of the package.
Your property value will not change because of the schools. Really, there are homes for 800K, that is pretty typical in most neighborhoods, even ones you consider the ghetto.
Are you serious? Are you implying that you will pay the same price for the same house no matter what school? give me a break.
We bought our house for location and neighborhood and didn't really put that much thought into the schools, even though we were fine with them. We bought before having kids.
That’s great. But it doesn’t change the fact that houses are priced the way they are because of the schools they are zoned for. Just because you didn’t care doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
So, how do you explain houses going for 900K-2 million in areas you'd consider the ghetto? Houses possibly worth more than yours?
You know that’s not true. And if you did find houses that meet this criteria it would be because of the ridiculously large size. But even still, if a huge house is selling for 2 million in Downtown Gaithersburg-it would be selling for 6 million in Bethesda. Facts.
You understand it takes someone pretty wealthy to buy a $1-6 million dollar house given the interest rates? Most average people aren't spending that.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:49
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.
If you are so passionate about this why aren’t you pushing for This to happen at Whitman, which is way less diverse than Wootton. Or do you only care about it happening at Wootton and nowhere else? Why do you think that is?
Wootton families don't want any students of color - black or hispanic, except they may make an exception for high income or IQ. That is what is concerning. Its not really about the move to Crown but self-segregating.
You are the one who keeps making it about color. it’s about school
performance. that’s it. nothing more. nothing less. Wouldn’t matter if the schools were 100% white-if it’s poor performing it’s still a problem. What do you not get about that?
Ok, school performance. So, if a wealthy family goes to Wootton and their kids are B/C students with low MAP and other test scores, would they not be welcome? How does that work? What about a child with autism or SN?
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:48
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To remind everyone of something that should be obvious: It does not matter whether you are in the walk zone or North Potomac; a decent part of your property value is due to the fact that you are zoned for Wootton. If Wootton goes away that school premium goes away. I realize this will delight the trolls but this comes as part of the package.
Your property value will not change because of the schools. Really, there are homes for 800K, that is pretty typical in most neighborhoods, even ones you consider the ghetto.
Are you serious? Are you implying that you will pay the same price for the same house no matter what school? give me a break.
We bought our house for location and neighborhood and didn't really put that much thought into the schools, even though we were fine with them. We bought before having kids.
That’s great. But it doesn’t change the fact that houses are priced the way they are because of the schools they are zoned for. Just because you didn’t care doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
So, how do you explain houses going for 900K-2 million in areas you'd consider the ghetto? Houses possibly worth more than yours?
You know that’s not true. And if you did find houses that meet this criteria it would be because of the ridiculously large size. But even still, if a huge house is selling for 2 million in Downtown Gaithersburg-it would be selling for 6 million in Bethesda. Facts.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:44
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.
If you are so passionate about this why aren’t you pushing for This to happen at Whitman, which is way less diverse than Wootton. Or do you only care about it happening at Wootton and nowhere else? Why do you think that is?
Wootton families don't want any students of color - black or hispanic, except they may make an exception for high income or IQ. That is what is concerning. Its not really about the move to Crown but self-segregating.
You are the one who keeps making it about color. it’s about school
performance. that’s it. nothing more. nothing less. Wouldn’t matter if the schools were 100% white-if it’s poor performing it’s still a problem. What do you not get about that?
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:34
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.
If you are so passionate about this why aren’t you pushing for This to happen at Whitman, which is way less diverse than Wootton. Or do you only care about it happening at Wootton and nowhere else? Why do you think that is?
Wootton families don't want any students of color - black or hispanic, except they may make an exception for high income or IQ. That is what is concerning. Its not really about the move to Crown but self-segregating.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:33
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To remind everyone of something that should be obvious: It does not matter whether you are in the walk zone or North Potomac; a decent part of your property value is due to the fact that you are zoned for Wootton. If Wootton goes away that school premium goes away. I realize this will delight the trolls but this comes as part of the package.
Your property value will not change because of the schools. Really, there are homes for 800K, that is pretty typical in most neighborhoods, even ones you consider the ghetto.
Are you serious? Are you implying that you will pay the same price for the same house no matter what school? give me a break.
We bought our house for location and neighborhood and didn't really put that much thought into the schools, even though we were fine with them. We bought before having kids.
That’s great. But it doesn’t change the fact that houses are priced the way they are because of the schools they are zoned for. Just because you didn’t care doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
So, how do you explain houses going for 900K-2 million in areas you'd consider the ghetto? Houses possibly worth more than yours?
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:32
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.
If you are so passionate about this why aren’t you pushing for This to happen at Whitman, which is way less diverse than Wootton. Or do you only care about it happening at Wootton and nowhere else? Why do you think that is?
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:26
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.
Can we also be clear that “busing” in this case is three miles?! Are we really talking about this?
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:23
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Yep it’s overtly racist. Some even use scare quotes for the word “bussing.” Do people in our well-educated cluster really not know the history of post-Brown v Board? TL/DR: the racists didn’t want their kids bussed for integration. They didn’t want their white kids going to school with black kids. They wanted to remain segregated. School boundaries in the decades that followed were purposefully drawn so as NOT to only include geographically close neighborhoods. The whole point of integration was to intentionally create school boundaries that fostered diversity by including dissimilar and incongruous neighborhoods. And here we are in 2026 with the walkers saying Wootton should not only not expand to include more students at the new Crown, but also that some feeders should be removed from the cluster as too far away. This is all for their selfish goals - not what is best for our kids.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:04
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Exactly this. There is this insanely irrational fear that if you take all of Wootton and put us at Crown as the new Wootton building that suddenly - poof- Wootton’s stellar academic performance will go into the gutter. Not sure how having our kids be in a new mold free building with the latest amenities will cause them all to be dumb, but trying to learn in a moldy and failing building will drive success. It’s this privileged, elitist attitude that adding new kids from other schools will somehow harm the academic performance of Wootton students. Tons of students ride their e-bikes to Crown regularly and these walker families act like sending their kids on the bus to Crown is journeying to a far away land. It’s so absurd, honestly.
But, but, what if they let some of the dark-skinned minorities into the school?
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:02
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Exactly this. There is this insanely irrational fear that if you take all of Wootton and put us at Crown as the new Wootton building that suddenly - poof- Wootton’s stellar academic performance will go into the gutter. Not sure how having our kids be in a new mold free building with the latest amenities will cause them all to be dumb, but trying to learn in a moldy and failing building will drive success. It’s this privileged, elitist attitude that adding new kids from other schools will somehow harm the academic performance of Wootton students. Tons of students ride their e-bikes to Crown regularly and these walker families act like sending their kids on the bus to Crown is journeying to a far away land. It’s so absurd, honestly.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 23:00
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To remind everyone of something that should be obvious: It does not matter whether you are in the walk zone or North Potomac; a decent part of your property value is due to the fact that you are zoned for Wootton. If Wootton goes away that school premium goes away. I realize this will delight the trolls but this comes as part of the package.
Your property value will not change because of the schools. Really, there are homes for 800K, that is pretty typical in most neighborhoods, even ones you consider the ghetto.
Are you serious? Are you implying that you will pay the same price for the same house no matter what school? give me a break.
We bought our house for location and neighborhood and didn't really put that much thought into the schools, even though we were fine with them. We bought before having kids.
That’s great. But it doesn’t change the fact that houses are priced the way they are because of the schools they are zoned for. Just because you didn’t care doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 22:55
Subject: Option H is permanent and the old Wootton HS campus will be closed for good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To remind everyone of something that should be obvious: It does not matter whether you are in the walk zone or North Potomac; a decent part of your property value is due to the fact that you are zoned for Wootton. If Wootton goes away that school premium goes away. I realize this will delight the trolls but this comes as part of the package.
Your property value will not change because of the schools. Really, there are homes for 800K, that is pretty typical in most neighborhoods, even ones you consider the ghetto.
Are you serious? Are you implying that you will pay the same price for the same house no matter what school? give me a break.
We bought our house for location and neighborhood and didn't really put that much thought into the schools, even though we were fine with them. We bought before having kids.