What elementary schools will Taylor be closing?

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief. It’s 1/2 empty and 1/2 of that 1/2 is bussed in for special education.

it’s not half empty - it’s utilization is 70+% or so. An only maybe a 1/3 is special education - I even believe it’s utilization is higher than Travilah

So without the special education population, its utilization would be is around 46%. Stellar. Send those kids to Travillah and make Dufief a halfway house for those with alcohol and drug addiction.

Dufief would be an easy closure—they’re 250 kids could just be divided to Stone Mill and Travilah without any disruption to MS or HS assignment.

The Dufief sanctimommies will not have that!! They will make signs and shirts and super duper “cute” videos and baseball caps and socks and tattoo their foreheads and their kids’ foreheads and their unborn childrens’ placentas! They WILL be heard.

Then Taylor is a sanctimommie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief. It’s 1/2 empty and 1/2 of that 1/2 is bussed in for special education.

it’s not half empty - it’s utilization is 70+% or so. An only maybe a 1/3 is special education - I even believe it’s utilization is higher than Travilah

So without the special education population, its utilization would be is around 46%. Stellar. Send those kids to Travillah and make Dufief a halfway house for those with alcohol and drug addiction.

Dufief would be an easy closure—they’re 250 kids could just be divided to Stone Mill and Travilah without any disruption to MS or HS assignment.

The Dufief sanctimommies will not have that!! They will make signs and shirts and super duper “cute” videos and baseball caps and socks and tattoo their foreheads and their kids’ foreheads and their unborn childrens’ placentas! They WILL be heard.

I'm sorry that your parents did not give you enough attention as a child. We hear your cry for help. If you need to talk to someone I can refer you to a good therapist. It's clear you really need someone to hear YOU. Please know you are loved.

[Anonymous]

I think they’ll close Sligo creek and move the French program to another school (if they keep it at all) and disperse neighborhood students to other schools. There’s capacity at ESS and if they build a new HVES there will be plenty of room there. I think the likelihood of a new Sligo creek is very slim, and I think that was true even before the plan was delayed. I think Taylor was trying to trick that community into thinking they’d get a new school but he never really intended to build one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They said they would be looking at paired elementary schools, so I'm curious if they will be considering eliminating that model and just having K-5 schools.

Can you share who and when this was said? I work at one of the few paired schools and haven’t heard anything.

[Anonymous]

not sure what the rabid anti-Dufief trolling is about . . . the statements dressed up as threats of sending our kids to FRES or closing Dufief are so self-revealing. It isn’t scary to us. Truly. Pinky swear. See, the difference between us is we celebrate the prospect of our kids widening their worlds. God knows that isolating among rich temper-tantruming elites is not a recipe for success in life. Not aiming to teach my kid to live in fear of others, that’s for sure. And if they close Dufief to save money because of under enrollment? Ok . . . Money ain’t growing on trees and shouldn’t be wasted for bricks. The sun will still rise and the kids will really be ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Won’t there be MS closures first? Look how many are i the low 50 and 60% utilization rates with the new boundaries!

They will be deciding on both elementary school and middle school closures simultaneously, probably next spring (but Taylor also offered an alternative timeline where they decide in spring 2028 if the Board wants to move more slowly.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dufief. It’s 1/2 empty and 1/2 of that 1/2 is bussed in for special education.

it’s not half empty - it’s utilization is 70+% or so. An only maybe a 1/3 is special education - I even believe it’s utilization is higher than Travilah

So without the special education population, its utilization would be is around 46%. Stellar. Send those kids to Travillah and make Dufief a halfway house for those with alcohol and drug addiction.

Dufief would be an easy closure—they’re 250 kids could just be divided to Stone Mill and Travilah without any disruption to MS or HS assignment.

The Dufief sanctimommies will not have that!! They will make signs and shirts and super duper “cute” videos and baseball caps and socks and tattoo their foreheads and their kids’ foreheads and their unborn childrens’ placentas! They WILL be heard.

I thought it was Karens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they’ll close Sligo creek and move the French program to another school (if they keep it at all) and disperse neighborhood students to other schools. There’s capacity at ESS and if they build a new HVES there will be plenty of room there. I think the likelihood of a new Sligo creek is very slim, and I think that was true even before the plan was delayed. I think Taylor was trying to trick that community into thinking they’d get a new school but he never really intended to build one.

They are planning for more than 700 students at the new SCES, although the unofficial word is they will colocate with a Waldorf School which is leasing an MCPS property. Fabulous. The school district keeps shoving it to Sligo Creek. But in terms of what might be shut down, more likely they would choose not to rebuild HVES, a smaller school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dufief. It’s 1/2 empty and 1/2 of that 1/2 is bussed in for special education.

it’s not half empty - it’s utilization is 70+% or so. An only maybe a 1/3 is special education - I even believe it’s utilization is higher than Travilah

So without the special education population, its utilization would be is around 46%. Stellar. Send those kids to Travillah and make Dufief a halfway house for those with alcohol and drug addiction.

Dufief would be an easy closure—they’re 250 kids could just be divided to Stone Mill and Travilah without any disruption to MS or HS assignment.

The Dufief sanctimommies will not have that!! They will make signs and shirts and super duper “cute” videos and baseball caps and socks and tattoo their foreheads and their kids’ foreheads and their unborn childrens’ placentas! They WILL be heard.

I'm sorry that your parents did not give you enough attention as a child. We hear your cry for help. If you need to talk to someone I can refer you to a good therapist. It's clear you really need someone to hear YOU. Please know you are loved.

Seriously… agree. Some of these people (maybe the same person?) need some help on here.

To the PP - whatever it is, it will be okay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They said they would be looking at paired elementary schools, so I'm curious if they will be considering eliminating that model and just having K-5 schools.

Can you share who and when this was said? I work at one of the few paired schools and haven’t heard anything.

It's in the superintendents slide deck on the elementary boundary study - Feb 26 presentation? But take a look at the acreage of each of those varied schools. A lot of these schools are on small acreage that can't accommodate further facility growth if one campus enlarges to accommodate the other campus integrating into it.

[Anonymous]

*paired schools, not varied schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:They said they would be looking at paired elementary schools, so I'm curious if they will be considering eliminating that model and just having K-5 schools.

Can you share who and when this was said? I work at one of the few paired schools and haven’t heard anything.

It's in the superintendents slide deck on the elementary boundary study - Feb 26 presentation? But take a look at the acreage of each of those varied schools. A lot of these schools are on small acreage that can't accommodate further facility growth if one campus enlarges to accommodate the other campus integrating into it.

It was from the Feb. 5th presentation. The slide called The Need:

1. To ensure we are fiscally responsible and properly investing funds
where needed by looking at factors such as:
a. Facility Condition
b. Utilization
c. Placement of relocatable classrooms
2. To address declining enrollment through Policy FAA Criteria
(geographic proximity, demographics, utilization, stability of student
assignment over time)
3. To ensure we are serving special education students closest
to their home when possible
4. To address noncontiguous boundaries and island assignments
5. To revisit the paired-school model

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Personally I think we should kick Cold Spring off CIP, close it down, and take that money to rebuild Wootton to keep Wootton on Wootton Parkway. They are already slated to goto Churchill anyways.

The money for Cold Spring wouldn't be a tenth of what is needed for Wootton. Cold Spring just needs some walls and doors put up. It's otherwise in decent condition. Unless they decide to expand it, Cold Spring is a (relatively) cheap reno. Wootton is basically a gut job - hundreds of millions to fix that one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’ll close Sligo creek and move the French program to another school (if they keep it at all) and disperse neighborhood students to other schools. There’s capacity at ESS and if they build a new HVES there will be plenty of room there. I think the likelihood of a new Sligo creek is very slim, and I think that was true even before the plan was delayed. I think Taylor was trying to trick that community into thinking they’d get a new school but he never really intended to build one.

They are planning for more than 700 students at the new SCES, although the unofficial word is they will colocate with a Waldorf School which is leasing an MCPS property. Fabulous. The school district keeps shoving it to Sligo Creek. But in terms of what might be shut down, more likely they would choose not to rebuild HVES, a smaller school.

Acorn Hill Waldorf school is *nearby* but it won't be co-loated. Just on the same road.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they’ll close Sligo creek and move the French program to another school (if they keep it at all) and disperse neighborhood students to other schools. There’s capacity at ESS and if they build a new HVES there will be plenty of room there. I think the likelihood of a new Sligo creek is very slim, and I think that was true even before the plan was delayed. I think Taylor was trying to trick that community into thinking they’d get a new school but he never really intended to build one.

They are planning for more than 700 students at the new SCES, although the unofficial word is they will colocate with a Waldorf School which is leasing an MCPS property. Fabulous. The school district keeps shoving it to Sligo Creek. But in terms of what might be shut down, more likely they would choose not to rebuild HVES, a smaller school.

Acorn Hill Waldorf school is *nearby* but it won't be co-loated. Just on the same road.

This site was determined too difficult for MCPS to build an elementary school on in just 2018 so I don't know why Taylor all of a sudden thinks he can make one work there now.