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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  Ritchie Park was also rebuilt and slightly under capacity about 10 years ago (maybe 1 classroom not used) but Fallsgrove was built - with no idea where they were going to school (a HUGE problem in MC) and they decided to bus them to RP.  To even out the SES, they added a small slice of apartments in lower Rockville too.  Then they built Park Potomac.  Also goes to RP.  We were told those homes were meant for those downsizing in Potomac mansions (aka low school enrollment) but what they got instead was Asian families renting/purchasing them and living with large extended familes.  So more kids than ever anticipated came from that development and they are still building.  RP's enrollment goes up every year as new homes with babies grow and older homes with empty nesters turn over.

The new housing developers with their big pockets should be paying a large part of new schools and have them being built at the same time.

The quality in RP has gone down over the last 5 years.  The cafeteria is too small, not enough K classes, no blacktop for playground, less time in PE, music and art as they have to fit in each class once a week.  It is very frustrating as a parent.   They need to rezone because this school won't get better unless Fallsgrove gets redistricted to the new school but they are going to fight tooth and nail against it as there will be a higher SES going to school #5 and their home prices will drop.  But even still, we are looking at over 5 years away and something needs to be done NOW.

At the very least let Horizon Hill have an option to walk to Cold Spring, which for half the development is very doable.  Let them choose a school until school #5 is built. Get rid of these portables and give RP back it's normal school and numbers.

Another option is to redistrict Park Potomac to Beverly Farms which too is closer than RP.

There seems to be very easy common sense ways to address a school that looks to be 200 over capacity by next year with multiples schools around it 100 under capacity.  [/quote]

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