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Anonymous wrote:That “fireside chat” started as between two ferns and ended with some woman acting like Kanye West when Taylor Swift won instead of Beyonce.

2009 is back and has joined the ballot.

"Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Wootton has one of the best IAC reports of all time."

You mean Crown had one of the best IAC reports of all time. One was never done for Wootton

Anonymous wrote:That “fireside chat” started as between two ferns and ended with some woman acting like Kanye West when Taylor Swift won instead of Beyonce.

2009 is back and has joined the ballot.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

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Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

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Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

This is one of the many reasons why people don't buy that they could find the money for Wootton and Magruder renovations if they actually wanted to.

They can find the money for anything they want. They don't want to. Just like they didn't want to keep the virtual school, which was not very expensive but benefited some students. Wootton is demanding immediate fixes. That's not realistic. You all could have waited but demanded a fix now, so you got one.

wAiT YoUr tUrN. We're all laughing at you and your inability to stop saying that.

Now you don't have to wait your turn and you get a brand new school, keeping other students who were supposed to be in it, to get it.

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Anonymous wrote:That “fireside chat” started as between two ferns and ended with some woman acting like Kanye West when Taylor Swift won instead of Beyonce.

2009 is back and has joined the ballot.

"Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Wootton has one of the best IAC reports of all time."

You mean Crown had one of the best IAC reports of all time. One was never done for Wootton

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Anonymous wrote:The video had a lot more pro-H people in the audience than I expected based on the description. I haven’t watched the whole thing but I saw 3: a current student, parent, and counselor who talked about the impact of the condition of the school on their work.

Probably Dufief losers.

Classy… there was a student who spoke you know? I was nervous for him. And I was nervous for the staff too. The angry mob was very angry. Maybe they should have to go sit in that counselor’s office and work for a week. People seem to be losing perspective here.

Kid was a prop there doing the work of the parent trying to get her way I'm sure. Just move to Crown and enjoy the new facility. Stop the complaining while the rest of us hope our kids have as nice a building!

The kid was advocating for the school to be moved because of the horrible conditions he has to deal with everyday. The angry mob resisted booing him. But barely.

I heard the principal didn’t even show up. Shows how much he cares.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That “fireside chat” started as between two ferns and ended with some woman acting like Kanye West when Taylor Swift won instead of Beyonce.

2009 is back and has joined the ballot.

"Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Wootton has one of the best IAC reports of all time."

Anonymous wrote:That “fireside chat” started as between two ferns and ended with some woman acting like Kanye West when Taylor Swift won instead of Beyonce.

2009 is back and has joined the ballot.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The video had a lot more pro-H people in the audience than I expected based on the description. I haven’t watched the whole thing but I saw 3: a current student, parent, and counselor who talked about the impact of the condition of the school on their work.

Probably Dufief losers.

Classy… there was a student who spoke you know? I was nervous for him. And I was nervous for the staff too. The angry mob was very angry. Maybe they should have to go sit in that counselor’s office and work for a week. People seem to be losing perspective here.

Kid was a prop there doing the work of the parent trying to get her way I'm sure. Just move to Crown and enjoy the new facility. Stop the complaining while the rest of us hope our kids have as nice a building!

The kid was advocating for the school to be moved because of the horrible conditions he has to deal with everyday. The angry mob resisted booing him. But barely.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The video had a lot more pro-H people in the audience than I expected based on the description. I haven’t watched the whole thing but I saw 3: a current student, parent, and counselor who talked about the impact of the condition of the school on their work.

Probably Dufief losers.

Classy… there was a student who spoke you know? I was nervous for him. And I was nervous for the staff too. The angry mob was very angry. Maybe they should have to go sit in that counselor’s office and work for a week. People seem to be losing perspective here.

Kid was a prop there doing the work of the parent trying to get her way I'm sure. Just move to Crown and enjoy the new facility. Stop the complaining while the rest of us hope our kids have as nice a building!

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

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Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

This is one of the many reasons why people don't buy that they could find the money for Wootton and Magruder renovations if they actually wanted to.

They can find the money for anything they want. They don't want to. Just like they didn't want to keep the virtual school, which was not very expensive but benefited some students. Wootton is demanding immediate fixes. That's not realistic. You all could have waited but demanded a fix now, so you got one.

wAiT YoUr tUrN. We're all laughing at you and your inability to stop saying that.