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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

This is and always has been unrealistic. Educational experiences are dictated by parental involvement in their kids' education, combined with the teachers in the classroom. Parents will want to live in safe neighborhoods among those of the same socioeconomic class. The best teachers will want to work at the best schools. The best schools are filled with kids (and their parents) who want to maximize their educational experience.

The intentions of MCPS are hidden by design, often disguised by the amorphous (and unverifiable) claim that they are acting in the best interests of all kids in MCPS. The more parents whose kids will be affected negatively by an MCPS decision, the less likely this justification is correct. Simple logic dictates that no decision should have a disproportionate negative affect on one group. Here, it's in the best interest of MCPS to keep Wootton as a high-performing school in the neighborhood where it has been for 55 years. OTOH, it's clearly in the best interest of the developers around Crown to move Wootton there so that they can charge 50%+ for their rental apartments and townhouses within walking distance of Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:Putting Wootton kids at Crown is just dumb.

It won't matter in the end this will be the end of a great HS.

Putting Damascus kids there is absurd. The distance is too far.

Wow, so eloquently stated. Why is it dumb?

Putting Wootton kids at Crown is just smart, and a good use of taxpayer dollars. There are 22 schools in the CIP, and only one with a brand new school being built a couple of miles away.

Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this has been covered but what happens to over crowded RM if there is no actual new school. They just stay overcrowded? Or lB will just shrink considerably with the new magnet system so they will be ok?

Anonymous wrote:Putting Wootton kids at Crown is just dumb.

It won't matter in the end this will be the end of a great HS.

Putting Damascus kids there is absurd. The distance is too far.

Anonymous wrote:You can get a house for $800 for Wootton. Many other areas go for way more. What’s there to brag about? https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/14908-Pomquay-Ct_North-Potomac_MD_20878_M57729-79418?from=srp-list-card


Is a family living here not welcome too? Or you tolerate them? https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/14425-Pebble-Hill-Ln_North-Potomac_MD_20878_M59698-18126?from=srp-list-card

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

This is and always has been unrealistic. Educational experiences are dictated by parental involvement in their kids' education, combined with the teachers in the classroom. Parents will want to live in safe neighborhoods among those of the same socioeconomic class. The best teachers will want to work at the best schools. The best schools are filled with kids (and their parents) who want to maximize their educational experience.

The intentions of MCPS are hidden by design, often disguised by the amorphous (and unverifiable) claim that they are acting in the best interests of all kids in MCPS. The more parents whose kids will be affected negatively by an MCPS decision, the less likely this justification is correct. Simple logic dictates that no decision should have a disproportionate negative affect on one group. Here, it's in the best interest of MCPS to keep Wootton as a high-performing school in the neighborhood where it has been for 55 years. OTOH, it's clearly in the best interest of the developers around Crown to move Wootton there so that they can charge 50%+ for their rental apartments and townhouses within walking distance of Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

This is and always has been unrealistic. Educational experiences are dictated by parental involvement in their kids' education, combined with the teachers in the classroom. Parents will want to live in safe neighborhoods among those of the same socioeconomic class. The best teachers will want to work at the best schools. The best schools are filled with kids (and their parents) who want to maximize their educational experience.

The intentions of MCPS are hidden by design, often disguised by the amorphous (and unverifiable) claim that they are acting in the best interests of all kids in MCPS. The more parents whose kids will be affected negatively by an MCPS decision, the less likely this justification is correct. Simple logic dictates that no decision should have a disproportionate negative affect on one group. Here, it's in the best interest of MCPS to keep Wootton as a high-performing school in the neighborhood where it has been for 55 years. OTOH, it's clearly in the best interest of the developers around Crown to move Wootton there so that they can charge 50%+ for their rental apartments and townhouses within walking distance of Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

The only people who don’t care what school their kids are zoned for are people who don’t care about their kid’s education/very specific other reasons. This isn’t a moco thing. Everywhere in the country people are very careful where they settle in terms of schools. Literally everyone I personally know has never rented or purchased a property without considering the schools. There is not a place in this country where people aren’t considering where a property is in regards to schools-this is not an attainable goal. The only people who don’t care about it are:
1. those that simply don’t have a choice where they live.
2. Those who do not care at all about their kid’s education.
3. Those who don’t know any better themselves so don’t think there is a difference.
4. Those coming from areas so unbelievably bad that literally anything is a huge upgrade.

And, why is it these lower income families are good enough to teach, provide mental health treatment and support your kids at school and then you claim theses are the same people who don’t value education. If they don’t value education why do you allow them to teach your kids?

Do you know what is considered lower income in moco? Because it’s not a teacher’s salary. Also every single teacher I know (and I know a lot because i’m in the education field-though not a teacher) Has their kid in a high performing school (even if they don’t teach at one) or has them in private if their school is not a good one. Tons of the teachers I know live in the Poolesville cluster-affordable housing and excellent schools.

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

The only people who don’t care what school their kids are zoned for are people who don’t care about their kid’s education/very specific other reasons. This isn’t a moco thing. Everywhere in the country people are very careful where they settle in terms of schools. Literally everyone I personally know has never rented or purchased a property without considering the schools. There is not a place in this country where people aren’t considering where a property is in regards to schools-this is not an attainable goal. The only people who don’t care about it are:
1. those that simply don’t have a choice where they live.
2. Those who do not care at all about their kid’s education.
3. Those who don’t know any better themselves so don’t think there is a difference.
4. Those coming from areas so unbelievably bad that literally anything is a huge upgrade.

And, why is it these lower income families are good enough to teach, provide mental health treatment and support your kids at school and then you claim theses are the same people who don’t value education. If they don’t value education why do you allow them to teach your kids?

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

The only people who don’t care what school their kids are zoned for are people who don’t care about their kid’s education/very specific other reasons. This isn’t a moco thing. Everywhere in the country people are very careful where they settle in terms of schools. Literally everyone I personally know has never rented or purchased a property without considering the schools. There is not a place in this country where people aren’t considering where a property is in regards to schools-this is not an attainable goal. The only people who don’t care about it are:
1. those that simply don’t have a choice where they live.
2. Those who do not care at all about their kid’s education.
3. Those who don’t know any better themselves so don’t think there is a difference.
4. Those coming from areas so unbelievably bad that literally anything is a huge upgrade.

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

The only people who don’t care what school their kids are zoned for are people who don’t care about their kid’s education/very specific other reasons. This isn’t a moco thing. Everywhere in the country people are very careful where they settle in terms of schools. Literally everyone I personally know has never rented or purchased a property without considering the schools. There is not a place in this country where people aren’t considering where a property is in regards to schools-this is not an attainable goal. The only people who don’t care about it are:
1. those that simply don’t have a choice where they live.
2. Those who do not care at all about their kid’s education.
3. Those who don’t know any better themselves so don’t think there is a difference.
4. Those coming from areas so unbelievably bad that literally anything is a huge upgrade.

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Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.

Potentially, most of the county.

Of course, the tyrrany of the majority was among the reasons the Founding Fathers were skeptical of pure democracy. Certainly, the relative impacts should be considered.

In the end, however, the decision-making criteria should boil down to providing individuals across the system with reasonably similar overall educational experiences, from courses available to facility conditions to extracurriculars to transportation and beyond, though taken as a whole, as making all, or even any, of these exactly equal for everyone would be hugely inefficient, if not impossible. The closer they can get to a point where people, generally, wouldn't care to which MCPS school their children would be zoned, the more they would know that they are heading in the right direction.

Of course, with respect to this, I have my doubts concerning the intentions of some of the decision makers, from MCPS leadership to BOE members to those on the County Council. We shall see.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A faction of east county has wanted to destroy the W schools for quite some time now. Option H is their chance to nuke one of them and they're going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

The hyperbole and villianization is out of control here. Nobody wants to "destroy the W schools." And if there are some who dislike the perceived privilege of those communities, they don't care enough to do "everything in their power" to "nuke" it. It was MCPS that put this option on the table, not an imaginary band of angry anti-W haters.

I take no issue with anybody arguing against Option H and making arguments for why another option is better. It is important civic engagement.

But you can do that without creating a war mentality and casting everybody who does not share your opinion as motivated by some type of vengeance.

Honestly, reasonable minds may differ.

+1 the victim mentality of these UMC people is unpleasant to watch.

It’s not victim mentality when you actually ARE a victim. I guess Wootton kids don’t belong to their parents anymore. The kids who go to Wootton don’t want to go to Crown, but their opinions don’t seem to matter either.

Kinda gross when you get down to it. Involuntary servitude to the whims of those unaffected by their decisions.

You thinking that MCPS should do what a group of UMC parents want is entitlement. You can share your opinion, just as others can share theirs. But, ultimately, MCPS should choose the option that makes the most sense.

Did you not hear that MoCo has a huge budget crisis in the coming years? Do you realize that there are 22 schools on the CIP? There's a brand new school a couple of miles away from Wootton. No other school on the CIP has a brand new school near it.

But Wootton families don’t want Crown. Feel free to give it to one of the other high schools that needs it more. Just remediate a few issues at Wootton. The millions that it will cost to move Wootton and rebrand Crown as Wootton can be used for this purpose.

With that problem solved, why do you really want to move Wootton to Crown? I just drove by Crown and there are a bunch of signs at new developments and renovated apartment complexes advertising that Crown is the new Wootton. How much more can they charge home buyers and renters by trading on the Wootton reputation as the #3 high school in the state and #191 in the country?

Qui bono? Answer that question, and you’ll have the truth.