Anonymous
Post 02/10/2026 21:25     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who will write the rec letters for seniors this year then?


Their current counselors will. This happens all the time.


6 counselors don’t leave in the same year- no, this doesn’t “happen all the time.”


What did happen? They heard the school was moving to Crown in Gaithersburg so left this year?
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2026 11:44     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:Admin and counseling are disastrous. I have a special needs child with significant delays and had to get a lawyer to assist with issues. He is a senior and I have never had issues like this in the past. The new principal is over his head.


Does a principal typically handle special needa cases?
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2026 11:28     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:The title says it all. An admin is listed as my child’s counselor. All the previous year’s counselors have disappeared. IEP is a mess. Anyone knows what’s going on?


WHAT was going on?
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2025 20:07     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:Admin and counseling are disastrous. I have a special needs child with significant delays and had to get a lawyer to assist with issues. He is a senior and I have never had issues like this in the past. The new principal is over his head.


This is the future of mcps.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2025 19:49     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Admin and counseling are disastrous. I have a special needs child with significant delays and had to get a lawyer to assist with issues. He is a senior and I have never had issues like this in the past. The new principal is over his head.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2025 19:26     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:I have 2 kids at Wootton and their new counselor is awful.

Doesn’t respond to emails, acts like any request is putting her out.

It’s very frustrating. Our old counselor who left at the start of the year was so helpful and kind.


That’s what happens when good counselors get accused of being racist.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2025 18:10     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
I have 2 kids at Wootton and their new counselor is awful.

Doesn’t respond to emails, acts like any request is putting her out.

It’s very frustrating. Our old counselor who left at the start of the year was so helpful and kind.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 06:31     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:I've been around long enough to see this same pattern play out at Whitman, Churchill, and a few others. Typical smear post. Wootton gets dragged into the mud for an isolated incident that would get a yawn at Blair or Kennedy.


Oh please, that’s not true. No school is perfect and they all have issues.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2025 06:22     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:I've been around long enough to see this same pattern play out at Whitman, Churchill, and a few others. Typical smear post. Wootton gets dragged into the mud for an isolated incident that would get a yawn at Blair or Kennedy.



It is more than one event that was handled poorly. It was how the staff were treated everyday over that year. For a school who only had a couple of people leave the year before, where people go and stay until retirement, to see almost 50 people school wide leave and 75% of the counselors, this shows a long term problem. The fact that no one on the county level also shows that MCPS does not care about its staff.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 21:32     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
I've been around long enough to see this same pattern play out at Whitman, Churchill, and a few others. Typical smear post. Wootton gets dragged into the mud for an isolated incident that would get a yawn at Blair or Kennedy.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 19:20     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t want to pile on because we are generally happy at Wootton and want to give new staff time to settle in but what is going on with transcripts? My senior applied to most colleges as soon as the common app opened and no transcripts were sent. He followed up with the school multiple times and got a vague answer that they’re not ready to send. He saw a copy of his transcript over the summer so they had them then. He’s getting nervous.


This is not a Wootton issue. Mcps transcripts were uploaded to Naviance very late this year. Only last week.


Thank you for your response. I’ll have him check Naviance again tonight.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 17:52     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Please check their transcript. Ours had multiple mistakes. A couple of courses that were dropped early in the quarter came up as NG (not graded). The school fixed it but it took weeks!


And out of order?

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1280847.page
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 17:52     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Anonymous wrote:Please check their transcript. Ours had multiple mistakes. A couple of courses that were dropped early in the quarter came up as NG (not graded). The school fixed it but it took weeks!


And out of order?
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 17:48     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Why naviance and not on parent Vue? Who is looking at transcripts on naviance? - a newbie
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 17:46     Subject: Whats going on at Wootton? All the counselors are gone?
Please check their transcript. Ours had multiple mistakes. A couple of courses that were dropped early in the quarter came up as NG (not graded). The school fixed it but it took weeks!