Anonymous wrote:Why is BOE not exploring the use of Wootton as the holding facility while the current walkers remain there? Essentially moving Magruder there and integrating with Lakewood and Fallsmead, the current walkers who do not want to bus. The North Potomac feeders could go to Crown with Fields Road and Rosemont and whatever other schools need relief. Almost everyone, except Magruder, wins here. Very curious why this has yet to be explored or suggested.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me if Hoover and Cabin John are affected? If they’re zoned for Churchill do they still go there?

In Option H, both Hoover and CJ are taking in some ESs from Wootton, and then these students will join Wootton after MS.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me if Hoover and Cabin John are affected? If they’re zoned for Churchill do they still go there?

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me if Hoover and Cabin John are affected? If they’re zoned for Churchill do they still go there?

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Anonymous wrote:You know what should happen? Magruder goes over to the Wootton building as a holding school and the Wootton walkers can ALSO go there, in their own little hybrid school (reverse option G if you will) and they can see how much they like that set up.

Then just stay at QO and Gaithersburg. This whole crazy situation is happening because Crown wants to leave Gaithersburg, even though it’s an almost brand-new facility and only 10 minutes away

Anonymous wrote:You know what should happen? Magruder goes over to the Wootton building as a holding school and the Wootton walkers can ALSO go there, in their own little hybrid school (reverse option G if you will) and they can see how much they like that set up.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what should happen? Magruder goes over to the Wootton building as a holding school and the Wootton walkers can ALSO go there, in their own little hybrid school (reverse option G if you will) and they can see how much they like that set up.

Ok and everyone else goes where?

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Anonymous wrote:For all of those people screaming it’s not fair for Fields Road, Rosement et al. to go to school with others as a holding school:

1. Your own mayor of Gaithersburg was the one who proposed G and talked it up. EF were presented by MCPS to mayor Jud before it went live. Jud said he said down with Gburg community members, including Field Road advocates, and came up with G.
2. Magruder is pretty small HS. You can take Fields, Rosemont, Rio island, and hell even all of Dufief, since they want to go to Crown so badly. You will have a community and cohort with those 4 communities during and after Magruder uses Crown as a holding school. Then when Magruder is done, mcps can rezone how they see fit.

If buying a home doesn't dictate what school you go to, I'm not sure I see why people are so concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road communities if the Crown site is used as a holding school.

Has there ever been a case of two separate high schools sharing a building?

When they moved into their homes it was a given that their areas would feed into Quince Orchard or Gaithersburg and for the Crown residents, that they'd eventually be assigned to Crown when it eventually opened.

Using Crown as a holding school while the other schools get renovated doesn't change anything other then they'll get the Crown High School a little bit later.

With option H, it's basically the same issue for the families off of Wootton Parkway. They'd be driving past a high school building that was previously assigned to their area and they thought they were buying into to go to another building, while the nearby building is used as a holding school. So if people are concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road families, it should be the same for the Wootton Parkway families.

Crown High Schools is at a better/more central location, unoccupied and new. And would make the better holding school out of the two buildings.

Buying a house in a specific cluster does not guarantee that your kids will go to that HS. School districts make boundary changes; neighborhoods get reassigned to a different school. This happens everywhere in the country. That's not a valid argument.

Impact on the community does matter.

Every boundary change impacts the community. You buying a house in a specific neighborhood doesn't guarantee that your kids will go to that specific school.

Correct. But buying a house in a specific neighborhood does traditionally guarantee that you will be part of some stable community and not a pariah within someone else’s part-time school.

Anonymous wrote:You know what should happen? Magruder goes over to the Wootton building as a holding school and the Wootton walkers can ALSO go there, in their own little hybrid school (reverse option G if you will) and they can see how much they like that set up.

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Anonymous wrote:For all of those people screaming it’s not fair for Fields Road, Rosement et al. to go to school with others as a holding school:

1. Your own mayor of Gaithersburg was the one who proposed G and talked it up. EF were presented by MCPS to mayor Jud before it went live. Jud said he said down with Gburg community members, including Field Road advocates, and came up with G.
2. Magruder is pretty small HS. You can take Fields, Rosemont, Rio island, and hell even all of Dufief, since they want to go to Crown so badly. You will have a community and cohort with those 4 communities during and after Magruder uses Crown as a holding school. Then when Magruder is done, mcps can rezone how they see fit.

If buying a home doesn't dictate what school you go to, I'm not sure I see why people are so concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road communities if the Crown site is used as a holding school.

Has there ever been a case of two separate high schools sharing a building?

When they moved into their homes it was a given that their areas would feed into Quince Orchard or Gaithersburg and for the Crown residents, that they'd eventually be assigned to Crown when it eventually opened.

Using Crown as a holding school while the other schools get renovated doesn't change anything other then they'll get the Crown High School a little bit later.

With option H, it's basically the same issue for the families off of Wootton Parkway. They'd be driving past a high school building that was previously assigned to their area and they thought they were buying into to go to another building, while the nearby building is used as a holding school. So if people are concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road families, it should be the same for the Wootton Parkway families.

Crown High Schools is at a better/more central location, unoccupied and new. And would make the better holding school out of the two buildings.

Buying a house in a specific cluster does not guarantee that your kids will go to that HS. School districts make boundary changes; neighborhoods get reassigned to a different school. This happens everywhere in the country. That's not a valid argument.

Impact on the community does matter.

Every boundary change impacts the community. You buying a house in a specific neighborhood doesn't guarantee that your kids will go to that specific school.

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Anonymous wrote:For all of those people screaming it’s not fair for Fields Road, Rosement et al. to go to school with others as a holding school:

1. Your own mayor of Gaithersburg was the one who proposed G and talked it up. EF were presented by MCPS to mayor Jud before it went live. Jud said he said down with Gburg community members, including Field Road advocates, and came up with G.
2. Magruder is pretty small HS. You can take Fields, Rosemont, Rio island, and hell even all of Dufief, since they want to go to Crown so badly. You will have a community and cohort with those 4 communities during and after Magruder uses Crown as a holding school. Then when Magruder is done, mcps can rezone how they see fit.

If buying a home doesn't dictate what school you go to, I'm not sure I see why people are so concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road communities if the Crown site is used as a holding school.

Has there ever been a case of two separate high schools sharing a building?

When they moved into their homes it was a given that their areas would feed into Quince Orchard or Gaithersburg and for the Crown residents, that they'd eventually be assigned to Crown when it eventually opened.

Using Crown as a holding school while the other schools get renovated doesn't change anything other then they'll get the Crown High School a little bit later.

With option H, it's basically the same issue for the families off of Wootton Parkway. They'd be driving past a high school building that was previously assigned to their area and they thought they were buying into to go to another building, while the nearby building is used as a holding school. So if people are concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road families, it should be the same for the Wootton Parkway families.

Crown High Schools is at a better/more central location, unoccupied and new. And would make the better holding school out of the two buildings.

Buying a house in a specific cluster does not guarantee that your kids will go to that HS. School districts make boundary changes; neighborhoods get reassigned to a different school. This happens everywhere in the country. That's not a valid argument.

Impact on the community does matter.

Every boundary change impacts the community. You buying a house in a specific neighborhood doesn't guarantee that your kids will go to that specific school.

Parkway families bought where they did because they thought they'd forever be at Wootton HS .. to your point of, " They'd be driving past a high school building that was previously assigned to their area and they thought they were buying into to go to another building,"

I'm pretty sure the families in Fields and Rosemont knew that they'd eventually go to Crown since it's much closer, and also, they are little islands in the Wootton cluster.

It seems to me that it's the Parkway families who " thought they were buying into " Wootton forever and thought boundary changes would never impact them.

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Anonymous wrote:For all of those people screaming it’s not fair for Fields Road, Rosement et al. to go to school with others as a holding school:

1. Your own mayor of Gaithersburg was the one who proposed G and talked it up. EF were presented by MCPS to mayor Jud before it went live. Jud said he said down with Gburg community members, including Field Road advocates, and came up with G.
2. Magruder is pretty small HS. You can take Fields, Rosemont, Rio island, and hell even all of Dufief, since they want to go to Crown so badly. You will have a community and cohort with those 4 communities during and after Magruder uses Crown as a holding school. Then when Magruder is done, mcps can rezone how they see fit.

If buying a home doesn't dictate what school you go to, I'm not sure I see why people are so concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road communities if the Crown site is used as a holding school.

Has there ever been a case of two separate high schools sharing a building?

When they moved into their homes it was a given that their areas would feed into Quince Orchard or Gaithersburg and for the Crown residents, that they'd eventually be assigned to Crown when it eventually opened.

Using Crown as a holding school while the other schools get renovated doesn't change anything other then they'll get the Crown High School a little bit later.

With option H, it's basically the same issue for the families off of Wootton Parkway. They'd be driving past a high school building that was previously assigned to their area and they thought they were buying into to go to another building, while the nearby building is used as a holding school. So if people are concerned about the Rosemont and Fields Road families, it should be the same for the Wootton Parkway families.

Crown High Schools is at a better/more central location, unoccupied and new. And would make the better holding school out of the two buildings.

Buying a house in a specific cluster does not guarantee that your kids will go to that HS. School districts make boundary changes; neighborhoods get reassigned to a different school. This happens everywhere in the country. That's not a valid argument.

Impact on the community does matter.

Every boundary change impacts the community. You buying a house in a specific neighborhood doesn't guarantee that your kids will go to that specific school.