Anonymous
01/02/2026 21:17
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
The issue noted does not concern one school, alone. Look at the maps to see whether the impacts are disproportionately low among wealthy areas (and disproportionately large among less wealthy areas). The map tools for each study, where one can turn off all layers but the existing HS zones and any one option's HS zones, rotating through the options, show this. In addition to the generally lower disruption, they particularly show that, when there are such areas affected, they most often shift among the wealthier/higher performing schools rather than between those and the less wealthy areas. This may be more obvious with the Woodward/Northwood study.
Look where the BOE, county council and other elected officials live. Look at the biggest school donors. It’s sad that there are such disparities and in theory this was to fix it and will create bigger divide and with the staffing reductions hurt some schools even more.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 20:10
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
The issue noted does not concern one school, alone. Look at the maps to see whether the impacts are disproportionately low among wealthy areas (and disproportionately large among less wealthy areas). The map tools for each study, where one can turn off all layers but the existing HS zones and any one option's HS zones, rotating through the options, show this. In addition to the generally lower disruption, they particularly show that, when there are such areas affected, they most often shift among the wealthier/higher performing schools rather than between those and the less wealthy areas. This may be more obvious with the Woodward/Northwood study.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 19:55
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
It's not getting affected because it is the poorest W school. It is getting affected because it is the closest school to Crown.
Incorrect. GHS is closer to Crown.
Correct...as the crow flies and from facility to facility. As the car drives, it may be, depending on traffic, but by a hair, at best.
Moreover, the Gaithersburg catchment is, by and large and on average, farther from Crown than the Wootton catchment -- considerably so when considering bus transport and realizing the I-270 divide -- and the immediate Gaithersburg-zoned neighborhood would be zoned to Wootton at Crown in option H. Most importantly, Gaithersburg is not in a physical condition that would see them consider closing it in favor of relocation to the new facility, as is Wootton.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 19:17
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
I asked this question a few pages back. In Option H, RM is suddenly at or under capacity. Is that what MCPS is projecting? Is this due to the regional models?
Can someone from MCPS please explain the change in projections?
In every option, including the originals, A through D, RM maintains its existing boundary and is projected to have a 2031-32 population of 1983 with a capacity of 2200.
Those 2031-32 projections are catchment-area ("resident students"), so they do not count out-of-catchment magnet students except where noted -- Poolesville collecting an additional 600
and Seneca Valley collecting 500, though how they apportioned the draw (removing those 600 and 500 from other schools) is unclear. Perhaps they used current trends or perhaps they spread it proportionally to the projected resident student population of each school. It doesn't appear that they have differential draw for the new regional magnet paradigm in these projections.
That great. Dri6ve by RM today and could not believe the number of portables!
Anonymous
01/02/2026 17:41
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
It's not getting affected because it is the poorest W school. It is getting affected because it is the closest school to Crown.
Then maybe option A-D then. Damascus doesn’t want to go to crown or Wootton for holding school anyway since the commute is insane. Let both schools open.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 17:34
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
It's not getting affected because it is the poorest W school. It is getting affected because it is the closest school to Crown.
Incorrect. GHS is closer to Crown.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 15:19
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
It's not getting affected because it is the poorest W school. It is getting affected because it is the closest school to Crown.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 13:28
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
Do, if you are that stretched, can you comfortably pay for college without debt? Take if up with the people demanding an immediate fix.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 13:27
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
There has to be redistricting with the new schools and they are getting too big to be reasonably managed.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 13:25
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
In other way to look at this , Wootton is on the top 3 list of CIP and is located closest to the new Crown HS, that is why Wootton is more affected compared to the other 2 W school.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 13:19
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
RM is not that wealthy but gets unaffected. Wootton is getting affected someway in most options as Wootton is the poorest W school
Anonymous
01/02/2026 13:12
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
At least the new options that kept Wootton together (whether there or at Crown. All of the new options closed SSIMS, with similar consideration, and dispersed its community among three other facilities.
It's kind of sick that, among all of the options, it is the wealthiest areas that tend to be least affected, an artifice born not only of decades of intransigence in remediating overcrowding with boundary changes, but also of unnecessary constraint on the current boundary studies, keeping those wealthy communities in relatively intractable corners instead of allowing for a whole-of-system solution (e.g., allowing shifts west better to fill Poolesville, with cascade to Wootton, Churchill, Whitman, BCC, etc.).
Anonymous
01/02/2026 12:41
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Personally, I wasn’t one of the ones asking for a solution immediately and i’m annoyed it came to this.
And it’s not “sad” to make financial decisions that are best for our children.
Anonymous
01/02/2026 12:29
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote: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
Who is bragging? There has been comment after comment explaining that Wootton parents (including myself) are in no way rich and simply stretched to be able to provide our children with a great school experience. That being said-we absolutely could not have afforded a house that would have worked for our family in The Whitman cluster. The rich aren’t buying in Wootton. We simply don’t want our school moved and changed-and it will be changed. It’s funny because if you were to give this option to Most any other school they would also oppose-but for some reason Wootton parents are being attacked for this ridiculous option that came out of nowhere. The only people who want it are the people that will directly benefit from their property value increase-that’s it.
Then wait your turn for repairs. It’s kinda sad financially you are so stretched. That’s a bad lifestyle decision. You asked for a solution immediately and were given a good option. If that’s a no, then you wait like everyone else and stop the drama of being first in line when other schools need it more.
How do you plan to pay for college and grad school?
Anonymous
01/02/2026 00:08
Subject: Crown boundary study Option H
Anonymous wrote: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?
I asked this question a few pages back. In Option H, RM is suddenly at or under capacity. Is that what MCPS is projecting? Is this due to the regional models?
Can someone from MCPS please explain the change in projections?
In every option, including the originals, A through D, RM maintains its existing boundary and is projected to have a 2031-32 population of 1983 with a capacity of 2200.
Those 2031-32 projections are catchment-area ("resident students"), so they do not count out-of-catchment magnet students except where noted -- Poolesville collecting an additional 600
and Seneca Valley collecting 500, though how they apportioned the draw (removing those 600 and 500 from other schools) is unclear. Perhaps they used current trends or perhaps they spread it proportionally to the projected resident student population of each school. It doesn't appear that they have differential draw for the new regional magnet paradigm in these projections.