Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine who works at Magruder says the school is not in good shape but is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. Same with Wootton where my cousin’s wife works.

Falling ceilings are not that bad?

A friend of mine who works at Magruder says the school is not in good shape but is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. Same with Wootton where my cousin’s wife works.

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Anonymous wrote:Stone Mill, Dufief and Travilah should all be going to the same middle and high school.

Rosemont should go to Gaithersburg and people living in Crown should go to Fields Road or Stone Mill.

Stone Mill, Dufief, Travilah, Fields Rd., and Rachel Carson should all go to Lakelands and Crown.

Rachel Carson??? Lakelands??? They are walkers to QO. Are you ok?

And again, keep Travilah out of this!

An emphatic "Keep Travilah out of this!" I applaud your resolve!

Meanwhile, as every community goes after each other and dreams up dozens of distinct plans, the board and Taylor twiddle their merry thumbs and get ready to vote on exactly what they've wanted all along...with whatever modifications come next simply being the cherry on the top of their long-desired plan.

Realistically here’s what will happened: all the current rich, well-off schools will remain largely fine.

Whitman: fine
WJ: fine
Winston Churchill: fine
Wootton after all the crying and whining will be totally fine. The FARMS rates go up to like 19%? Rosemont part of Crown are some of the wealthiest folks of Gaithersburg cluster.

Everyone else, especially Magruder, are shit out of luck.

Then the regional program comes in and will make this even worse.

Years from now, the communities at Wootton at Crown will be fine. The Crown families and the Parkway families will eventually have kids who are friends. They’ll be tight knit and forgot this infighting. And the resource hoarding will continue.

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Anonymous wrote:Stone Mill, Dufief and Travilah should all be going to the same middle and high school.

Rosemont should go to Gaithersburg and people living in Crown should go to Fields Road or Stone Mill.

Stone Mill, Dufief, Travilah, Fields Rd., and Rachel Carson should all go to Lakelands and Crown.

Rachel Carson??? Lakelands??? They are walkers to QO. Are you ok?

And again, keep Travilah out of this!

Travilah is on the corner of Dufief Mill Rd and, you got it… Quince Orchard Rd. If anything, Travilah goes to QO and Dufief and Stone Mill stay at Wootton. The whole new neighborhood across from Travilah should be QO all the way.

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Anonymous wrote:Stone Mill, Dufief and Travilah should all be going to the same middle and high school.

Rosemont should go to Gaithersburg and people living in Crown should go to Fields Road or Stone Mill.

Stone Mill, Dufief, Travilah, Fields Rd., and Rachel Carson should all go to Lakelands and Crown.

Rachel Carson??? Lakelands??? They are walkers to QO. Are you ok?

And again, keep Travilah out of this!

An emphatic "Keep Travilah out of this!" I applaud your resolve!

Meanwhile, as every community goes after each other and dreams up dozens of distinct plans, the board and Taylor twiddle their merry thumbs and get ready to vote on exactly what they've wanted all along...with whatever modifications come next simply being the cherry on the top of their long-desired plan.

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Anonymous wrote:Stone Mill, Dufief and Travilah should all be going to the same middle and high school.

Rosemont should go to Gaithersburg and people living in Crown should go to Fields Road or Stone Mill.

Stone Mill, Dufief, Travilah, Fields Rd., and Rachel Carson should all go to Lakelands and Crown.

Some of this made sense, but Rachel Carson should go to Crown instead of walking to Quince Orchard???

Wouldn’t be enough for Crown to be its own school without it and would be more beneficial for Rachel Carson to join the former Wootton schools.

Wootton can stay in their building, but they get all of Rosemont (Crown residents and those over near 355). Crown/Wootton become nearly even after that.

Not this thread baiting Kentlands to rage quit this whole boundary study

Anonymous wrote:Stone Mill, Dufief and Travilah should all be going to the same middle and high school.

Rosemont should go to Gaithersburg and people living in Crown should go to Fields Road or Stone Mill.

Stone Mill, Dufief, Travilah, Fields Rd., and Rachel Carson should all go to Lakelands and Crown.

Rachel Carson??? Lakelands??? They are walkers to QO. Are you ok?

And again, keep Travilah out of this!

Anonymous wrote:Stone Mill, Dufief and Travilah should all be going to the same middle and high school.

Rosemont should go to Gaithersburg and people living in Crown should go to Fields Road or Stone Mill.

Stone Mill, Dufief, Travilah, Fields Rd., and Rachel Carson should all go to Lakelands and Crown.

Some of this made sense, but Rachel Carson should go to Crown instead of walking to Quince Orchard???

Stone Mill, Dufief and Travilah should all be going to the same middle and high school.

Rosemont should go to Gaithersburg and people living in Crown should go to Fields Road or Stone Mill.

Stone Mill, Dufief, Travilah, Fields Rd., and Rachel Carson should all go to Lakelands and Crown.

Wow Dufief sure has many friends and is so sought after. Crown wants Dufief and now QO wants Dufief too!

Sadly, Wootton does not want Dufief 👋

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Anonymous wrote:Magruder @ Wootton (Fallsmead and Lakewood).

Stone Mill, Travilah, Dufief, Fields, Rosemont @ THE brand new Crown Farm North Potomac High School

Please keep Travilah out of this. Travilah overwhelmingly do not want H and want to stay with Fallsmead and Lakewood at Wootton. Our recent school wide survey showed over 87% of Travilah families oppose going to Crown.

I can’t speak for Stone Mill, but it sounds like only Dufief wants to go, which by all means please go but stop trying to lump Travilah with you.

We don’t stand with Dufief

It’s only 2.6 miles to QOHS from Travilah. I wonder if BOE knows this. Just saying…

And? Dufief is even closer to QO and closer to Crown.

Not to mention Travilah boundaries are kind of crazy. Lots of Travilah ES families actually live closer to Churchill.

This is demonstrably false. I just checked. The boundary between Travilah and Potomac ES is Travilah Road. The farthest south section of the Travilah district, which is the Canal Vista neighbourhood, which stands at:

- 6.6 mi from Quince Orchard
- 7.6 mi from Crown
- 8.1 mi from Wootton
- 9.7 mi from Churchill

Travilah should be QO <3 <3

O you straight up have no idea what Travilah boundaries are

Oh, I straight up do. I used the map and checked via the MCPS GIS school assignment tool. Travilah's boundaries going towards the river extend significantly to the west. That's the opposite direction of Churchill, hon.

I’ll use a shopping center without doxing where I live. But look at the Potomac oak shopping center. I am zoned for Travilah but Churchill by distance and time is the closest school to me.

Distance to High Schools from the Potomac Oak Shopping Center:

QO: 4 miles

Crown: 5.7 miles

Wootton: 6.2 miles

Churchill: 6.2 miles

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The area to the East of that shopping center (ie to the East of Travilah road on Gled rd) is districted to Potomac and Churchill, so I know you can't live closer to Churchill than that.

Quince Orchard is triumphant again

But how can Travilah go to QO when Dufief is closer. Dufief is less than two miles depending on where one lives.

We insist Dufief go to QO.

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Anonymous wrote:Magruder @ Wootton (Fallsmead and Lakewood).

Stone Mill, Travilah, Dufief, Fields, Rosemont @ THE brand new Crown Farm North Potomac High School

Please keep Travilah out of this. Travilah overwhelmingly do not want H and want to stay with Fallsmead and Lakewood at Wootton. Our recent school wide survey showed over 87% of Travilah families oppose going to Crown.

I can’t speak for Stone Mill, but it sounds like only Dufief wants to go, which by all means please go but stop trying to lump Travilah with you.

We don’t stand with Dufief

It’s only 2.6 miles to QOHS from Travilah. I wonder if BOE knows this. Just saying…

And? Dufief is even closer to QO and closer to Crown.

Not to mention Travilah boundaries are kind of crazy. Lots of Travilah ES families actually live closer to Churchill.

This is demonstrably false. I just checked. The boundary between Travilah and Potomac ES is Travilah Road. The farthest south section of the Travilah district, which is the Canal Vista neighbourhood, which stands at:

- 6.6 mi from Quince Orchard
- 7.6 mi from Crown
- 8.1 mi from Wootton
- 9.7 mi from Churchill

Travilah should be QO <3 <3

O you straight up have no idea what Travilah boundaries are

Oh, I straight up do. I used the map and checked via the MCPS GIS school assignment tool. Travilah's boundaries going towards the river extend significantly to the west. That's the opposite direction of Churchill, hon.

I’ll use a shopping center without doxing where I live. But look at the Potomac oak shopping center. I am zoned for Travilah but Churchill by distance and time is the closest school to me.

Distance to High Schools from the Potomac Oak Shopping Center:

QO: 4 miles

Crown: 5.7 miles

Wootton: 6.2 miles

Churchill: 6.2 miles

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The area to the East of that shopping center (ie to the East of Travilah road on Gled rd) is districted to Potomac and Churchill, so I know you can't live closer to Churchill than that.

Quince Orchard is triumphant again

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Anonymous wrote:Stone Mill families do not stand with Dufief either. Candidly, there some of us who do want to go to Crown, but it is nowhere unanimous so please stop pretending like Stone Mill unequivocally supports the recommendation. We don’t!

You sound like the Travilah poster. It’s almost like you’re the same person.

Nope, believe it or not stone mill is very much divided. There are pta members at both SM and Wootton from the neighborhood that oppose H

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Anonymous wrote:Magruder @ Wootton (Fallsmead and Lakewood).

Stone Mill, Travilah, Dufief, Fields, Rosemont @ THE brand new Crown Farm North Potomac High School

Please keep Travilah out of this. Travilah overwhelmingly do not want H and want to stay with Fallsmead and Lakewood at Wootton. Our recent school wide survey showed over 87% of Travilah families oppose going to Crown.

I can’t speak for Stone Mill, but it sounds like only Dufief wants to go, which by all means please go but stop trying to lump Travilah with you.

We don’t stand with Dufief

Welcome Travilah - you’ve now joined.

So according to the chat, Dufief is closing so they are splitting the school to Travilah and Stone Mill. Which is sad news for you but as some people have suggested to Magruder, you can just COSA to solve all your problems. It’s like the easiest thing ever.

More great news - Magruder is going to be at Wootton with Fallsmead and Lakewood now. So that COSA will put you right with your friends.

Now for Travilah - that’s a little less clear but all great options. You have QO (you might get to become a coveted walker!), Crown (unless you hate brand new schools), or Churchill (they always have room and you get to meet back up with Cold Spring).

The BOE will add this to the modification tomorrow during the work session. I’m sure they’re keeping track of the votes on this thread.

Here's my vote for the board:

QUINCE ORCHARD
- Travilah
- DuFief
- Rachel Carson
- Thurgood Marshall
- Jones Lane

CROWN
- Stone Mill
- Fields Road
- Rosemont Island of Crown
- Diamond
- Washington Grove

WOOTTON
- Cold Spring
- Lakewood
- Fallsmead
- Ritchie Park
- Wayside

CHURCHILL
- Potomac
- Beverly Farms
- Bells Mill
- Seven Locks

And what about Magruder?

Magruder gets back to their newly rebuilt school after being a holding at the parkway with the Wootton walkers.