SSIMS vs. TPMS for 6th grade next year

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the hs instead.

OP here - I think in either case we would be at Blair (again more concerns about the special programs and how it feels to be not special / what the peer groups are like in general classes).

There is just a little slice of DTSS within the SSIMS catchment zone that articulates to Blair. Maybe this is where you are looking to move, but if your preference is Blair then you're better off in the TPMS catchment. We live near SSIMS, we have a kid there and we are big SSIMS boosters, but all things being equal, we'd probably send our kid to TPMS over SSIMS. It's not just that the building sucks, but the possible closure and related issues are just so uncertain. It would be nice to not worry about those things!

Also, we have lots of friends in Takoma Park who are not in the magnet, and I honestly haven't heard any feedback about the non-magnet kids being looked down upon. But I think you need to hear from non-magnet families themselves about their experience.

That little slice is reassigned from Blair to Northwood in the superintendent's boundary recommendation.

Part of SSIMS is reassigned to Eastern, which I thought went entirely to Blair - Isn't that why Taylor is bumping up the population at Eastern, from just under 1100 to 1500?

The 1500 number was from when Eastern was supposed to be greatly expanded to allow half of SSIMS to be zoned there if it closed. Now that's been delayed, so Eastern will not be expanded to that capacity.

Has that been officially announced? I would have thought they were holding off on the Eastern size decision until the SSIMS closure gets decided on. Taylor clearly wants to do it and I doubt he'd agree to something that would get in the way of that.

Elrich removed the extra funding from his budget. Still need to go through the council.

Elrich removed the funding for the Eastern renovation from his budget? I thought he kept it?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at the hs instead.

OP here - I think in either case we would be at Blair (again more concerns about the special programs and how it feels to be not special / what the peer groups are like in general classes).

There is just a little slice of DTSS within the SSIMS catchment zone that articulates to Blair. Maybe this is where you are looking to move, but if your preference is Blair then you're better off in the TPMS catchment. We live near SSIMS, we have a kid there and we are big SSIMS boosters, but all things being equal, we'd probably send our kid to TPMS over SSIMS. It's not just that the building sucks, but the possible closure and related issues are just so uncertain. It would be nice to not worry about those things!

Also, we have lots of friends in Takoma Park who are not in the magnet, and I honestly haven't heard any feedback about the non-magnet kids being looked down upon. But I think you need to hear from non-magnet families themselves about their experience.

That little slice is reassigned from Blair to Northwood in the superintendent's boundary recommendation.

Part of SSIMS is reassigned to Eastern, which I thought went entirely to Blair - Isn't that why Taylor is bumping up the population at Eastern, from just under 1100 to 1500?

The 1500 number was from when Eastern was supposed to be greatly expanded to allow half of SSIMS to be zoned there if it closed. Now that's been delayed, so Eastern will not be expanded to that capacity.

Has that been officially announced? I would have thought they were holding off on the Eastern size decision until the SSIMS closure gets decided on. Taylor clearly wants to do it and I doubt he'd agree to something that would get in the way of that.

Elrich removed the extra funding from his budget. Still need to go through the council.

Elrich removed the funding for the Eastern renovation from his budget? I thought he kept it?

He removed the **extra funding** that would have built Eastern out to 1,500 students to accommodate former SSIMS students. Eastern is still getting its total rebuild, just at the same size that it is currently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at the hs instead.

OP here - I think in either case we would be at Blair (again more concerns about the special programs and how it feels to be not special / what the peer groups are like in general classes).

There is just a little slice of DTSS within the SSIMS catchment zone that articulates to Blair. Maybe this is where you are looking to move, but if your preference is Blair then you're better off in the TPMS catchment. We live near SSIMS, we have a kid there and we are big SSIMS boosters, but all things being equal, we'd probably send our kid to TPMS over SSIMS. It's not just that the building sucks, but the possible closure and related issues are just so uncertain. It would be nice to not worry about those things!

Also, we have lots of friends in Takoma Park who are not in the magnet, and I honestly haven't heard any feedback about the non-magnet kids being looked down upon. But I think you need to hear from non-magnet families themselves about their experience.

That little slice is reassigned from Blair to Northwood in the superintendent's boundary recommendation.

Part of SSIMS is reassigned to Eastern, which I thought went entirely to Blair - Isn't that why Taylor is bumping up the population at Eastern, from just under 1100 to 1500?

The 1500 number was from when Eastern was supposed to be greatly expanded to allow half of SSIMS to be zoned there if it closed. Now that's been delayed, so Eastern will not be expanded to that capacity.

Has that been officially announced? I would have thought they were holding off on the Eastern size decision until the SSIMS closure gets decided on. Taylor clearly wants to do it and I doubt he'd agree to something that would get in the way of that.

Elrich removed the extra funding from his budget. Still need to go through the council.

Elrich removed the funding for the Eastern renovation from his budget? I thought he kept it?

He removed the **extra funding** that would have built Eastern out to 1,500 students to accommodate former SSIMS students. Eastern is still getting its total rebuild, just at the same size that it is currently.

Ah, gotcha. But it looks like there wouldn't be any actual construction happening in FY2027 either way, so cutting the construction funding for later years doesn't really mean anything, there'd still be plenty of time to design Eastern as either bigger or smaller, right?