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Anonymous wrote:I’m a future Wootton parent and I want Crown. If we lose option H, I’m not sending my kids into that moldy building!

So send them to private. You are in a very very small minority that wants crown.

We are fortunate to have the option of private school if it comes to that, but I’m speaking up because I know others who share my view and want Wootton at Crown as well. Many of us simply aren’t as vocal. The opposition may be loud, but it’s largely concentrated in one neighborhood. Not hearing from us doesn’t mean we don’t exist or that our numbers are small.

Then why aren’t being vocal about what you want? Don’t complain if/when you don’t get crown when you are doing nothing to advocate for it.

Why do they need to be. Crown makes sense.

haha ok. When homeless folks take over an abandoned Wootton and needles start being left all over the street for kids to find we will see if you still feel like it makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a future Wootton parent and I want Crown. If we lose option H, I’m not sending my kids into that moldy building!

So send them to private. You are in a very very small minority that wants crown.

We are fortunate to have the option of private school if it comes to that, but I’m speaking up because I know others who share my view and want Wootton at Crown as well. Many of us simply aren’t as vocal. The opposition may be loud, but it’s largely concentrated in one neighborhood. Not hearing from us doesn’t mean we don’t exist or that our numbers are small.

Then why aren’t being vocal about what you want? Don’t complain if/when you don’t get crown when you are doing nothing to advocate for it.

Why do they need to be. Crown makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a future Wootton parent and I want Crown. If we lose option H, I’m not sending my kids into that moldy building!

So send them to private. You are in a very very small minority that wants crown.

We are fortunate to have the option of private school if it comes to that, but I’m speaking up because I know others who share my view and want Wootton at Crown as well. Many of us simply aren’t as vocal. The opposition may be loud, but it’s largely concentrated in one neighborhood. Not hearing from us doesn’t mean we don’t exist or that our numbers are small.

Then why aren’t being vocal about what you want? Don’t complain if/when you don’t get crown when you are doing nothing to advocate for it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a future Wootton parent and I want Crown. If we lose option H, I’m not sending my kids into that moldy building!

So send them to private. You are in a very very small minority that wants crown.

We are fortunate to have the option of private school if it comes to that, but I’m speaking up because I know others who share my view and want Wootton at Crown as well. Many of us simply aren’t as vocal. The opposition may be loud, but it’s largely concentrated in one neighborhood. Not hearing from us doesn’t mean we don’t exist or that our numbers are small.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a future Wootton parent and I want Crown. If we lose option H, I’m not sending my kids into that moldy building!

So send them to private. You are in a very very small minority that wants crown.

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So send them to private. You are in a very very small minority that wants crown.

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Anonymous wrote:Option H may work and could be a strong long-term solution, but it also comes with significant uncertainties. It risks leaving an empty building behind, as we have seen elsewhere, and it would remove a neighborhood high school from the heart of Rockville. Many families are also confused by the idea that funding exists to use Wootton as a holding school, yet not to fully modernize it. That said, Option H does have real advantages and should be considered carefully as part of an honest, transparent discussion. This discussion casts families as either “stealing” Crown or acting as though they are “too good” for Crown. BOTH characterizations are harmful and untrue. What needs to stop is the name-calling and the assumption of bad motives when parents are advocating for their children. Years of fiscal and planning decisions by MCPS and the Board of Education put us in this position. Parents are trying to navigate the consequences, not undermine solutions. Assumptions and name-calling don’t move us forward.

What people are irritated about is that Wooten is not unique in needing repairs or a new school. They are not the only school who has been on the CIP, removed and is still waiting. You’re being presented the chance to get a new building but complaining about where it is located. Read the room. Be adults. No one is getting everything they want. So either you want a new building or you don’t. And if you choose no, understand that no one wants to hear ya’ll complaining about how unsafe Wooten is.

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Either take Option H or just stop complaining. If MCPS abandons Option H, the rest of us do not want to hear you whine about how old and moldy your damn school is. Your kids will be in the moldy school because you chose not to let them mix with black and hispanic people, but instead of saying that you make it about distance and all that crap.

It doesn’t really matter whether you want to hear or not. They deserve safe learning environment and they can’t be treated differently than other schools. Don’t keep the narrative that the only way Wootton can have a safe learning enrichment is to give up on their school. This is not fair.

DP. Great. Now apply that same principle to each MCPS-served community. And make sure it covers academic opportunity and all the rest for any individual student, as well. Solve for y.

It's not that moving Wootton to a new facility and incorporating the nearby communities should be the only option. That option should be explored, adjusted and evaluated with the entirety of the system in mind, though, even as MCPS should be considering ways to ensure the overall plan for the more impacted individual neighborhoods/families result in broadly equitable provision of educational services.

They put out option H and Wootton communities have clearly rejected the option. So that’s it for exploration as it makes no sense to go against the whole community. Don’t threaten Wootton families that they’ll stuck old moldy building without renovation forever because they didn’t accept option H. This kind of bullying needs to stop.

It's not bullying it's a choice. Everyone has tradeoffs. MCPS isn't worried about your home values, all your perceived traditions, or whatever the heck else you want to bring into the equation. This is about managing resources as efficiently as possible, doing so as safely as possible given the resource constraints, and with those two creating the most ideal educational environment for all students. You can either get a new safe building a couple miles away and go forth with education or you can stay in your old building and go forth with education. If you choose to stay, don't expect others to have sympathy for your complaints about the building.

Many of you stand to gain substantially from Wootton moving to Crown, and you are deliberately coercing Wootton people into accepting a blatantly unfair deal.

Yes I think it’s a lot of people just licking their chops thinking about how much their property value is going to increase with this situation.

I'm in the RM cluster, so it won't impact my property value. But, Wootton at Crown makes a lot of financial sense.

How can something that came about because of bad planning make sense?

It makes sense because we have declining enrollment and a huge budget shortfall for the foreseeable future. No other HS that is falling a part has a brand new HS being built close by.

I would bet many Magruder or Damascus families would be gladly take the new crown HS building if new Crown HS building is offered and also located a lot closer to them.

Then offer to Magruder and merge them with some Gaithersburg students and also split some to Gaithersburg high school. It’s not unlikely as the distance isn’t that far from Magruder and crown. It’s totally doable.

Really? Magruder is 8 miles from Crown. Now transportation will not be an issue? While it will be an issue for Wootton that is 3.3 miles away. You are the closest to Crown so it makes sense that Wootton moves there, not Damascus or Magruder.

You can close it and shuffle some to Gaithersburg High and some to crown. They’re geographically connected. Some parts of Wootton would be 6-7 miles to crown anyway. If MCPS really gives them this choice, let’s see how they react. It’s crazy in this board that people believe that Wootton should accept these insane choices quietly.

And those parts of Wootton that are 6 to 7 miles never should have belonged to Wootton anyways when QO opened. MCPS needs to reshuffle all of you

No, check the distance cold spring and crown

I'm talking about the neighborhoods to the left of Dufief Mill Rd. How did they end up with Wootton? A rezone should have happened a long time back and now it's high time MCPS shuffles everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Option H may work and could be a strong long-term solution, but it also comes with significant uncertainties. It risks leaving an empty building behind, as we have seen elsewhere, and it would remove a neighborhood high school from the heart of Rockville. Many families are also confused by the idea that funding exists to use Wootton as a holding school, yet not to fully modernize it. That said, Option H does have real advantages and should be considered carefully as part of an honest, transparent discussion. This discussion casts families as either “stealing” Crown or acting as though they are “too good” for Crown. BOTH characterizations are harmful and untrue. What needs to stop is the name-calling and the assumption of bad motives when parents are advocating for their children. Years of fiscal and planning decisions by MCPS and the Board of Education put us in this position. Parents are trying to navigate the consequences, not undermine solutions. Assumptions and name-calling don’t move us forward.

What people are irritated about is that Wooten is not unique in needing repairs or a new school. They are not the only school who has been on the CIP, removed and is still waiting. You’re being presented the chance to get a new building but complaining about where it is located. Read the room. Be adults. No one is getting everything they want. So either you want a new building or you don’t. And if you choose no, understand that no one wants to hear ya’ll complaining about how unsafe Wooten is.

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Either take Option H or just stop complaining. If MCPS abandons Option H, the rest of us do not want to hear you whine about how old and moldy your damn school is. Your kids will be in the moldy school because you chose not to let them mix with black and hispanic people, but instead of saying that you make it about distance and all that crap.

It doesn’t really matter whether you want to hear or not. They deserve safe learning environment and they can’t be treated differently than other schools. Don’t keep the narrative that the only way Wootton can have a safe learning enrichment is to give up on their school. This is not fair.

DP. Great. Now apply that same principle to each MCPS-served community. And make sure it covers academic opportunity and all the rest for any individual student, as well. Solve for y.

It's not that moving Wootton to a new facility and incorporating the nearby communities should be the only option. That option should be explored, adjusted and evaluated with the entirety of the system in mind, though, even as MCPS should be considering ways to ensure the overall plan for the more impacted individual neighborhoods/families result in broadly equitable provision of educational services.

They put out option H and Wootton communities have clearly rejected the option. So that’s it for exploration as it makes no sense to go against the whole community. Don’t threaten Wootton families that they’ll stuck old moldy building without renovation forever because they didn’t accept option H. This kind of bullying needs to stop.

It's not bullying it's a choice. Everyone has tradeoffs. MCPS isn't worried about your home values, all your perceived traditions, or whatever the heck else you want to bring into the equation. This is about managing resources as efficiently as possible, doing so as safely as possible given the resource constraints, and with those two creating the most ideal educational environment for all students. You can either get a new safe building a couple miles away and go forth with education or you can stay in your old building and go forth with education. If you choose to stay, don't expect others to have sympathy for your complaints about the building.

Many of you stand to gain substantially from Wootton moving to Crown, and you are deliberately coercing Wootton people into accepting a blatantly unfair deal.

Yes I think it’s a lot of people just licking their chops thinking about how much their property value is going to increase with this situation.

I'm in the RM cluster, so it won't impact my property value. But, Wootton at Crown makes a lot of financial sense.

How can something that came about because of bad planning make sense?

It makes sense because we have declining enrollment and a huge budget shortfall for the foreseeable future. No other HS that is falling a part has a brand new HS being built close by.

I would bet many Magruder or Damascus families would be gladly take the new crown HS building if new Crown HS building is offered and also located a lot closer to them.

Then offer to Magruder and merge them with some Gaithersburg students and also split some to Gaithersburg high school. It’s not unlikely as the distance isn’t that far from Magruder and crown. It’s totally doable.

Really? Magruder is 8 miles from Crown. Now transportation will not be an issue? While it will be an issue for Wootton that is 3.3 miles away. You are the closest to Crown so it makes sense that Wootton moves there, not Damascus or Magruder.

You can close it and shuffle some to Gaithersburg High and some to crown. They’re geographically connected. Some parts of Wootton would be 6-7 miles to crown anyway. If MCPS really gives them this choice, let’s see how they react. It’s crazy in this board that people believe that Wootton should accept these insane choices quietly.

And those parts of Wootton that are 6 to 7 miles never should have belonged to Wootton anyways when QO opened. MCPS needs to reshuffle all of you

No, check the distance cold spring and crown

I'm talking about the neighborhoods to the left of Dufief Mill Rd. How did they end up with Wootton? A rezone should have happened a long time back and now it's high time MCPS shuffles everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Option H may work and could be a strong long-term solution, but it also comes with significant uncertainties. It risks leaving an empty building behind, as we have seen elsewhere, and it would remove a neighborhood high school from the heart of Rockville. Many families are also confused by the idea that funding exists to use Wootton as a holding school, yet not to fully modernize it. That said, Option H does have real advantages and should be considered carefully as part of an honest, transparent discussion. This discussion casts families as either “stealing” Crown or acting as though they are “too good” for Crown. BOTH characterizations are harmful and untrue. What needs to stop is the name-calling and the assumption of bad motives when parents are advocating for their children. Years of fiscal and planning decisions by MCPS and the Board of Education put us in this position. Parents are trying to navigate the consequences, not undermine solutions. Assumptions and name-calling don’t move us forward.

What people are irritated about is that Wooten is not unique in needing repairs or a new school. They are not the only school who has been on the CIP, removed and is still waiting. You’re being presented the chance to get a new building but complaining about where it is located. Read the room. Be adults. No one is getting everything they want. So either you want a new building or you don’t. And if you choose no, understand that no one wants to hear ya’ll complaining about how unsafe Wooten is.

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Either take Option H or just stop complaining. If MCPS abandons Option H, the rest of us do not want to hear you whine about how old and moldy your damn school is. Your kids will be in the moldy school because you chose not to let them mix with black and hispanic people, but instead of saying that you make it about distance and all that crap.

It doesn’t really matter whether you want to hear or not. They deserve safe learning environment and they can’t be treated differently than other schools. Don’t keep the narrative that the only way Wootton can have a safe learning enrichment is to give up on their school. This is not fair.

DP. Great. Now apply that same principle to each MCPS-served community. And make sure it covers academic opportunity and all the rest for any individual student, as well. Solve for y.

It's not that moving Wootton to a new facility and incorporating the nearby communities should be the only option. That option should be explored, adjusted and evaluated with the entirety of the system in mind, though, even as MCPS should be considering ways to ensure the overall plan for the more impacted individual neighborhoods/families result in broadly equitable provision of educational services.

They put out option H and Wootton communities have clearly rejected the option. So that’s it for exploration as it makes no sense to go against the whole community. Don’t threaten Wootton families that they’ll stuck old moldy building without renovation forever because they didn’t accept option H. This kind of bullying needs to stop.

It's not bullying it's a choice. Everyone has tradeoffs. MCPS isn't worried about your home values, all your perceived traditions, or whatever the heck else you want to bring into the equation. This is about managing resources as efficiently as possible, doing so as safely as possible given the resource constraints, and with those two creating the most ideal educational environment for all students. You can either get a new safe building a couple miles away and go forth with education or you can stay in your old building and go forth with education. If you choose to stay, don't expect others to have sympathy for your complaints about the building.

Many of you stand to gain substantially from Wootton moving to Crown, and you are deliberately coercing Wootton people into accepting a blatantly unfair deal.

Yes I think it’s a lot of people just licking their chops thinking about how much their property value is going to increase with this situation.

I'm in the RM cluster, so it won't impact my property value. But, Wootton at Crown makes a lot of financial sense.

How can something that came about because of bad planning make sense?

It makes sense because we have declining enrollment and a huge budget shortfall for the foreseeable future. No other HS that is falling a part has a brand new HS being built close by.

I would bet many Magruder or Damascus families would be gladly take the new crown HS building if new Crown HS building is offered and also located a lot closer to them.

Then offer to Magruder and merge them with some Gaithersburg students and also split some to Gaithersburg high school. It’s not unlikely as the distance isn’t that far from Magruder and crown. It’s totally doable.

Really? Magruder is 8 miles from Crown. Now transportation will not be an issue? While it will be an issue for Wootton that is 3.3 miles away. You are the closest to Crown so it makes sense that Wootton moves there, not Damascus or Magruder.

You can close it and shuffle some to Gaithersburg High and some to crown. They’re geographically connected. Some parts of Wootton would be 6-7 miles to crown anyway. If MCPS really gives them this choice, let’s see how they react. It’s crazy in this board that people believe that Wootton should accept these insane choices quietly.

And those parts of Wootton that are 6 to 7 miles never should have belonged to Wootton anyways when QO opened. MCPS needs to reshuffle all of you

No, check the distance cold spring and crown

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Anonymous wrote:Option H may work and could be a strong long-term solution, but it also comes with significant uncertainties. It risks leaving an empty building behind, as we have seen elsewhere, and it would remove a neighborhood high school from the heart of Rockville. Many families are also confused by the idea that funding exists to use Wootton as a holding school, yet not to fully modernize it. That said, Option H does have real advantages and should be considered carefully as part of an honest, transparent discussion. This discussion casts families as either “stealing” Crown or acting as though they are “too good” for Crown. BOTH characterizations are harmful and untrue. What needs to stop is the name-calling and the assumption of bad motives when parents are advocating for their children. Years of fiscal and planning decisions by MCPS and the Board of Education put us in this position. Parents are trying to navigate the consequences, not undermine solutions. Assumptions and name-calling don’t move us forward.

What people are irritated about is that Wooten is not unique in needing repairs or a new school. They are not the only school who has been on the CIP, removed and is still waiting. You’re being presented the chance to get a new building but complaining about where it is located. Read the room. Be adults. No one is getting everything they want. So either you want a new building or you don’t. And if you choose no, understand that no one wants to hear ya’ll complaining about how unsafe Wooten is.

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Either take Option H or just stop complaining. If MCPS abandons Option H, the rest of us do not want to hear you whine about how old and moldy your damn school is. Your kids will be in the moldy school because you chose not to let them mix with black and hispanic people, but instead of saying that you make it about distance and all that crap.

It doesn’t really matter whether you want to hear or not. They deserve safe learning environment and they can’t be treated differently than other schools. Don’t keep the narrative that the only way Wootton can have a safe learning enrichment is to give up on their school. This is not fair.

DP. Great. Now apply that same principle to each MCPS-served community. And make sure it covers academic opportunity and all the rest for any individual student, as well. Solve for y.

It's not that moving Wootton to a new facility and incorporating the nearby communities should be the only option. That option should be explored, adjusted and evaluated with the entirety of the system in mind, though, even as MCPS should be considering ways to ensure the overall plan for the more impacted individual neighborhoods/families result in broadly equitable provision of educational services.

They put out option H and Wootton communities have clearly rejected the option. So that’s it for exploration as it makes no sense to go against the whole community. Don’t threaten Wootton families that they’ll stuck old moldy building without renovation forever because they didn’t accept option H. This kind of bullying needs to stop.

It's not bullying it's a choice. Everyone has tradeoffs. MCPS isn't worried about your home values, all your perceived traditions, or whatever the heck else you want to bring into the equation. This is about managing resources as efficiently as possible, doing so as safely as possible given the resource constraints, and with those two creating the most ideal educational environment for all students. You can either get a new safe building a couple miles away and go forth with education or you can stay in your old building and go forth with education. If you choose to stay, don't expect others to have sympathy for your complaints about the building.

Many of you stand to gain substantially from Wootton moving to Crown, and you are deliberately coercing Wootton people into accepting a blatantly unfair deal.

Yes I think it’s a lot of people just licking their chops thinking about how much their property value is going to increase with this situation.

I'm in the RM cluster, so it won't impact my property value. But, Wootton at Crown makes a lot of financial sense.

How can something that came about because of bad planning make sense?

It makes sense because we have declining enrollment and a huge budget shortfall for the foreseeable future. No other HS that is falling a part has a brand new HS being built close by.

I would bet many Magruder or Damascus families would be gladly take the new crown HS building if new Crown HS building is offered and also located a lot closer to them.

Then offer to Magruder and merge them with some Gaithersburg students and also split some to Gaithersburg high school. It’s not unlikely as the distance isn’t that far from Magruder and crown. It’s totally doable.

Really? Magruder is 8 miles from Crown. Now transportation will not be an issue? While it will be an issue for Wootton that is 3.3 miles away. You are the closest to Crown so it makes sense that Wootton moves there, not Damascus or Magruder.

You can close it and shuffle some to Gaithersburg High and some to crown. They’re geographically connected. Some parts of Wootton would be 6-7 miles to crown anyway. If MCPS really gives them this choice, let’s see how they react. It’s crazy in this board that people believe that Wootton should accept these insane choices quietly.

And those parts of Wootton that are 6 to 7 miles never should have belonged to Wootton anyways when QO opened. MCPS needs to reshuffle all of you

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Anonymous wrote:Wooton parent here (walking distance too).

Pros: new building, nice amenities, Rio and Crown to work + play after school.

Cons: taking bus first few years and likely the occasional pickup/drop until they drive.

Big question though is what the heck are they doing with the Wooton building?

Eventually, when they have the budget, they will renovate it somewhat and use it as a holding school.

Well, perfectly explains why the local neighborhoods would be opposed to it then - kids literally walking out front door to get on a bus when there is a HS right across the street.

Exactly-Do people not get how ridiculous this is? Also, it’s why when Crown opens Rio/Crown needs to be sent there. That school is in their neighborhood. Being bussed to Wootton at that point will just be insane.

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Anonymous wrote:Option H may work and could be a strong long-term solution, but it also comes with significant uncertainties. It risks leaving an empty building behind, as we have seen elsewhere, and it would remove a neighborhood high school from the heart of Rockville. Many families are also confused by the idea that funding exists to use Wootton as a holding school, yet not to fully modernize it. That said, Option H does have real advantages and should be considered carefully as part of an honest, transparent discussion. This discussion casts families as either “stealing” Crown or acting as though they are “too good” for Crown. BOTH characterizations are harmful and untrue. What needs to stop is the name-calling and the assumption of bad motives when parents are advocating for their children. Years of fiscal and planning decisions by MCPS and the Board of Education put us in this position. Parents are trying to navigate the consequences, not undermine solutions. Assumptions and name-calling don’t move us forward.

What people are irritated about is that Wooten is not unique in needing repairs or a new school. They are not the only school who has been on the CIP, removed and is still waiting. You’re being presented the chance to get a new building but complaining about where it is located. Read the room. Be adults. No one is getting everything they want. So either you want a new building or you don’t. And if you choose no, understand that no one wants to hear ya’ll complaining about how unsafe Wooten is.

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Either take Option H or just stop complaining. If MCPS abandons Option H, the rest of us do not want to hear you whine about how old and moldy your damn school is. Your kids will be in the moldy school because you chose not to let them mix with black and hispanic people, but instead of saying that you make it about distance and all that crap.

It doesn’t really matter whether you want to hear or not. They deserve safe learning environment and they can’t be treated differently than other schools. Don’t keep the narrative that the only way Wootton can have a safe learning enrichment is to give up on their school. This is not fair.

DP. Great. Now apply that same principle to each MCPS-served community. And make sure it covers academic opportunity and all the rest for any individual student, as well. Solve for y.

It's not that moving Wootton to a new facility and incorporating the nearby communities should be the only option. That option should be explored, adjusted and evaluated with the entirety of the system in mind, though, even as MCPS should be considering ways to ensure the overall plan for the more impacted individual neighborhoods/families result in broadly equitable provision of educational services.

They put out option H and Wootton communities have clearly rejected the option. So that’s it for exploration as it makes no sense to go against the whole community. Don’t threaten Wootton families that they’ll stuck old moldy building without renovation forever because they didn’t accept option H. This kind of bullying needs to stop.

It's not bullying it's a choice. Everyone has tradeoffs. MCPS isn't worried about your home values, all your perceived traditions, or whatever the heck else you want to bring into the equation. This is about managing resources as efficiently as possible, doing so as safely as possible given the resource constraints, and with those two creating the most ideal educational environment for all students. You can either get a new safe building a couple miles away and go forth with education or you can stay in your old building and go forth with education. If you choose to stay, don't expect others to have sympathy for your complaints about the building.

Many of you stand to gain substantially from Wootton moving to Crown, and you are deliberately coercing Wootton people into accepting a blatantly unfair deal.

Yes I think it’s a lot of people just licking their chops thinking about how much their property value is going to increase with this situation.

I'm in the RM cluster, so it won't impact my property value. But, Wootton at Crown makes a lot of financial sense.

How can something that came about because of bad planning make sense?

It makes sense because we have declining enrollment and a huge budget shortfall for the foreseeable future. No other HS that is falling a part has a brand new HS being built close by.

I would bet many Magruder or Damascus families would be gladly take the new crown HS building if new Crown HS building is offered and also located a lot closer to them.

Then offer to Magruder and merge them with some Gaithersburg students and also split some to Gaithersburg high school. It’s not unlikely as the distance isn’t that far from Magruder and crown. It’s totally doable.

Really? Magruder is 8 miles from Crown. Now transportation will not be an issue? While it will be an issue for Wootton that is 3.3 miles away. You are the closest to Crown so it makes sense that Wootton moves there, not Damascus or Magruder.

You can close it and shuffle some to Gaithersburg High and some to crown. They’re geographically connected. Some parts of Wootton would be 6-7 miles to crown anyway. If MCPS really gives them this choice, let’s see how they react. It’s crazy in this board that people believe that Wootton should accept these insane choices quietly.

Look at the Wootton boundary map. Crown sits right there in that space between the main part and the Rio island at the top. It's hardly an insance choice. And Wootton itself was never centrally located within its own boundary.

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/WoottonHS.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Option H may work and could be a strong long-term solution, but it also comes with significant uncertainties. It risks leaving an empty building behind, as we have seen elsewhere, and it would remove a neighborhood high school from the heart of Rockville. Many families are also confused by the idea that funding exists to use Wootton as a holding school, yet not to fully modernize it. That said, Option H does have real advantages and should be considered carefully as part of an honest, transparent discussion. This discussion casts families as either “stealing” Crown or acting as though they are “too good” for Crown. BOTH characterizations are harmful and untrue. What needs to stop is the name-calling and the assumption of bad motives when parents are advocating for their children. Years of fiscal and planning decisions by MCPS and the Board of Education put us in this position. Parents are trying to navigate the consequences, not undermine solutions. Assumptions and name-calling don’t move us forward.

What people are irritated about is that Wooten is not unique in needing repairs or a new school. They are not the only school who has been on the CIP, removed and is still waiting. You’re being presented the chance to get a new building but complaining about where it is located. Read the room. Be adults. No one is getting everything they want. So either you want a new building or you don’t. And if you choose no, understand that no one wants to hear ya’ll complaining about how unsafe Wooten is.

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Either take Option H or just stop complaining. If MCPS abandons Option H, the rest of us do not want to hear you whine about how old and moldy your damn school is. Your kids will be in the moldy school because you chose not to let them mix with black and hispanic people, but instead of saying that you make it about distance and all that crap.

It doesn’t really matter whether you want to hear or not. They deserve safe learning environment and they can’t be treated differently than other schools. Don’t keep the narrative that the only way Wootton can have a safe learning enrichment is to give up on their school. This is not fair.

DP. Great. Now apply that same principle to each MCPS-served community. And make sure it covers academic opportunity and all the rest for any individual student, as well. Solve for y.

It's not that moving Wootton to a new facility and incorporating the nearby communities should be the only option. That option should be explored, adjusted and evaluated with the entirety of the system in mind, though, even as MCPS should be considering ways to ensure the overall plan for the more impacted individual neighborhoods/families result in broadly equitable provision of educational services.

They put out option H and Wootton communities have clearly rejected the option. So that’s it for exploration as it makes no sense to go against the whole community. Don’t threaten Wootton families that they’ll stuck old moldy building without renovation forever because they didn’t accept option H. This kind of bullying needs to stop.

It's not bullying it's a choice. Everyone has tradeoffs. MCPS isn't worried about your home values, all your perceived traditions, or whatever the heck else you want to bring into the equation. This is about managing resources as efficiently as possible, doing so as safely as possible given the resource constraints, and with those two creating the most ideal educational environment for all students. You can either get a new safe building a couple miles away and go forth with education or you can stay in your old building and go forth with education. If you choose to stay, don't expect others to have sympathy for your complaints about the building.

Many of you stand to gain substantially from Wootton moving to Crown, and you are deliberately coercing Wootton people into accepting a blatantly unfair deal.

Yes I think it’s a lot of people just licking their chops thinking about how much their property value is going to increase with this situation.

I'm in the RM cluster, so it won't impact my property value. But, Wootton at Crown makes a lot of financial sense.

How can something that came about because of bad planning make sense?

It makes sense because we have declining enrollment and a huge budget shortfall for the foreseeable future. No other HS that is falling a part has a brand new HS being built close by.

I would bet many Magruder or Damascus families would be gladly take the new crown HS building if new Crown HS building is offered and also located a lot closer to them.

Then offer to Magruder and merge them with some Gaithersburg students and also split some to Gaithersburg high school. It’s not unlikely as the distance isn’t that far from Magruder and crown. It’s totally doable.

Really? Magruder is 8 miles from Crown. Now transportation will not be an issue? While it will be an issue for Wootton that is 3.3 miles away. You are the closest to Crown so it makes sense that Wootton moves there, not Damascus or Magruder.

You can close it and shuffle some to Gaithersburg High and some to crown. They’re geographically connected. Some parts of Wootton would be 6-7 miles to crown anyway. If MCPS really gives them this choice, let’s see how they react. It’s crazy in this board that people believe that Wootton should accept these insane choices quietly.