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Cold Spring is practically in the Churchill district. It might get redistricted to Churchill, but otherwise there's zero chance it gets moved from Wootton.

I would bet on Cold Spring escaping this. I agree that geographically it would make no sense to send Cold Spring neighborhoods to NW, GHS or Rockville HS. However, it doesn't make any sense to bus kids from the areas in Darnestown next to Wootton and QO to NW and now possibly to SV.

Cold Spring has the dubious distinction of being the highest performing elementary school in the county and has lots of asian american families. This puts it right in the target zone for those in and around MCPS drooling at the idea of breaking down the W schools.

If you had told Cold Spring parents several years ago that their kids who scored way higher than everyone else in the county would be barred from the magnet so that lower performing white students living in the DCC could take their spots, they would not have believed it. Yet here we are with TPMS now filled with less than stellar lower scoring DCC kids and all the brilliant Cold Spring kids off to Frost.

So there'll be a whole cohort of brilliant kids at Frost, and they won't have to take that dreaded bus ride to Takoma Park.

Sounds good. Just unroll Takoma Park curriculum in one of the classrooms filled with those students who would have gone to Takoma in the past or just barely missed the cut-off, and we are set. Perhaps some of the discarded magnet teachers could come in and be appreciated and validated there, too.

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There's that Cold Spring ES conspiracy theory again.

I wouldn't be smug considering the federal government is investigating MCPS for discrimination against Asian American students. The preliminary complaints and evidence was enough to make this a class action investigation which means it is SERIOUS.

Or it means the Department of Education is investigating some Asian American parents' claims that MCPS discriminated against their children, because it suits Betsy De Vos's agenda.

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So there'll be a whole cohort of brilliant kids at Frost, and they won't have to take that dreaded bus ride to Takoma Park.

Sounds good. Just unroll Takoma Park curriculum in one of the classrooms filled with those students who would have gone to Takoma in the past or just barely missed the cut-off, and we are set. Perhaps some of the discarded magnet teachers could come in and be appreciated and validated there, too.

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Cold Spring is practically in the Churchill district. It might get redistricted to Churchill, but otherwise there's zero chance it gets moved from Wootton.

I would bet on Cold Spring escaping this. I agree that geographically it would make no sense to send Cold Spring neighborhoods to NW, GHS or Rockville HS. However, it doesn't make any sense to bus kids from the areas in Darnestown next to Wootton and QO to NW and now possibly to SV.

Cold Spring has the dubious distinction of being the highest performing elementary school in the county and has lots of asian american families. This puts it right in the target zone for those in and around MCPS drooling at the idea of breaking down the W schools.

If you had told Cold Spring parents several years ago that their kids who scored way higher than everyone else in the county would be barred from the magnet so that lower performing white students living in the DCC could take their spots, they would not have believed it. Yet here we are with TPMS now filled with less than stellar lower scoring DCC kids and all the brilliant Cold Spring kids off to Frost.

So there'll be a whole cohort of brilliant kids at Frost, and they won't have to take that dreaded bus ride to Takoma Park.

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Cold Spring is practically in the Churchill district. It might get redistricted to Churchill, but otherwise there's zero chance it gets moved from Wootton.

I would bet on Cold Spring escaping this. I agree that geographically it would make no sense to send Cold Spring neighborhoods to NW, GHS or Rockville HS. However, it doesn't make any sense to bus kids from the areas in Darnestown next to Wootton and QO to NW and now possibly to SV.

Cold Spring has the dubious distinction of being the highest performing elementary school in the county and has lots of asian american families. This puts it right in the target zone for those in and around MCPS drooling at the idea of breaking down the W schools.

If you had told Cold Spring parents several years ago that their kids who scored way higher than everyone else in the county would be barred from the magnet so that lower performing white students living in the DCC could take their spots, they would not have believed it. Yet here we are with TPMS now filled with less than stellar lower scoring DCC kids and all the brilliant Cold Spring kids off to Frost.

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There's that Cold Spring ES conspiracy theory again.

I wouldn't be smug considering the federal government is investigating MCPS for discrimination against Asian American students. The preliminary complaints and evidence was enough to make this a class action investigation which means it is SERIOUS.

There's that Cold Spring ES conspiracy theory again.

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Cold Spring is practically in the Churchill district. It might get redistricted to Churchill, but otherwise there's zero chance it gets moved from Wootton.

I would bet on Cold Spring escaping this. I agree that geographically it would make no sense to send Cold Spring neighborhoods to NW, GHS or Rockville HS. However, it doesn't make any sense to bus kids from the areas in Darnestown next to Wootton and QO to NW and now possibly to SV.

Cold Spring has the dubious distinction of being the highest performing elementary school in the county and has lots of asian american families. This puts it right in the target zone for those in and around MCPS drooling at the idea of breaking down the W schools.

If you had told Cold Spring parents several years ago that their kids who scored way higher than everyone else in the county would be barred from the magnet so that lower performing white students living in the DCC could take their spots, they would not have believed it. Yet here we are with TPMS now filled with less than stellar lower scoring DCC kids and all the brilliant Cold Spring kids off to Frost.

Cold Spring is practically in the Churchill district. It might get redistricted to Churchill, but otherwise there's zero chance it gets moved from Wootton.

Anonymous wrote:Agree, PP 1000%. The days of tumbleweed blowing through empty classrooms at Cold Spring and DuFief and every other Wootton ES, and Frost MS, are soon to be over. As you said, other nearby clusters are overcrowded. Simply unfair to kids and teachers.

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Agree, PP 1000%. The days of tumbleweed blowing through empty classrooms at Cold Spring and DuFief and every other Wootton ES, and Frost MS, are soon to be over. As you said, other nearby clusters are overcrowded. Simply unfair to kids and teachers.

I don't know about CS but Dufief and Travilah have never objected to getting more students. Its silly that Falls Grove and Horizon Hills go to RM rather than Wootton. This isn't a new development either. RM, RP, RC and the adjacent schools have been over crowded for a decade. The trends and development possibilities haven't changed in Wootton in 20 years so the idea that MCPS could not have foreseen any of this is ridiculous as they have been sitting in top of it for 10 years.

10-15 years ago MCPS should have established neighborhoods adjacent to Dufief or Wootton as dual enrollment zones. If the neighborhood was adjacent to the boundary then there would be minimal bus impact by adding another stop. This would balance out the capacity without costing a fortune. MCPS won't do something simple like this because they think the neighborhoods adjacent are not poor enough.

Agree, PP 1000%. The days of tumbleweed blowing through empty classrooms at Cold Spring and DuFief and every other Wootton ES, and Frost MS, are soon to be over. As you said, other nearby clusters are overcrowded. Simply unfair to kids and teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Would there be any likely changes to Wootton before Crown becomes relevant? I've heard rumors about changes such as areas going to NW or QO but assumed none of this could happen until Crown became real.

If there is to be any rezoning prior to Crown HS it would be QO areas being rezoned to Wootton, not the other way around. QO is way more overcrowded than Wootton. Same for NW.

NOpe that's not how it works. Before Crown is completely built, there will be a boundary study which includes all 5 clusters and the reassignments will be done in one shot.

Yes... and Wootton areas won't be reassigned to QO or NW which are already overcrowded. As I said *IF* there is rezoning in that area, it would be areas from NW or QO rezoned to W.

When Crown gets built, W areas will get rezoned to Crown.

The point is that W won't get rezoned to QO/NW no matter which way it's sliced.

The point is that nobody knows what will happen in the boundary study.

In boundary studies, reassignments can and do happen among any of the schools in the boundary study.

Depends on where in the cluster you live. There's no way the Potomac kids will be rezoned out of Wootton.