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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh?  My DC plays 2 MCPS sports at one of the schools you mention and never once have they changed in a locker room.  Our kids arrive dressed, the other team arrives dressed, you play and you go home.  There are spartan bathrooms in the stadium field.  No worse or better than other schools I've been to in the county (except for the sports palaces at WJ and RM, which were paid for by soccer clubs).[/quote]

Did you bother watching the tape?  They do have PE classes there you know.  This is the school.  Not some stadium bathroom.   The lockers are made for ten year olds, there is mold everywhere, and the showers haven't worked for years.  The school is falling down on top of kids.  If these conditions existed on the west side of the county at one of the W schools the parents would be in an uproar.  RM and WJ have nothing to do with this.  Those are turf fields not turf schools.[/quote]

Yes I watched it and agree that the building needs improvements.  I just don't understand why you are blaming Whitman and Churchill for this (both of which are about 150 students over capacity this year, while Poolesville, at least, is not).  And I reacted to the thing that you highlighted which is lack of visiting team changing rooms.  I haven't seen this in any of the county schools.  [/quote]

No one is blaming Whitman or Churchill.  I used them as an example of schools that when parents snap their fingers the BOE acts.  Example;  When Churchill was scheduled for renovation the parents flat out refused to have their children moved to the holding school (Northwood) for fear of having them rubbing shoulders with the common folk in Wheaton.  So the renovation went on with the students in the building while the holding school sat empty.  Northwood was good enough for Sherwood whose students had to travel about 20 miles to attend school for two years but not good enough for the elite Churchill people.

Poolesville and its surrounding towns have at best 5000 voters.  The county council and BOE ignores them because they hold no sway at election time.  But God forbid that they upset the voting block that makes up the Churchill and Whitman communities.  Thus the Poolesville school decays with no hope of a renovation for the next ten years.[/quote]

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