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Also the county does dumb things like build Rocky Hill MS and then 7-8 years later rebuilds and it and turns it into a HS and then rebuilds Rocky Hill HS in another location...total waste of tax payer money.  [/quote]

Agree.  They have done this in our district too.  No one thinks long term.  So many other counties and schools add an entire level that is built out but not finished.  So much cheaper for growing districts in the long run.  Not MCPS.  They have to continue to build massive additions eating up more land and fields from the school.

They waste so much money.  [/quote]

Let's look at the timeline.

1994 - Clarksburg master plan adopted
1995 - new Rocky Hill MS opens
2000 - Clarksburg development starts
2004 - new building opens for Rocky Hill MS (capacity 986 students) next door
2006 - new Clarksburg HS built at site of former Rocky Hill MS
2015 - addition built for Clarksburg HS (capacity now 2,025)
2016 - new Hallie Wells MS opens

I'm not seeing the waste or lack of long-term thinking here.[/quote]

Your joking...building a school and tearing it down within 10 years isn't a waste of money?[/quote]

What would you have done instead, in the early 1990s, knowing only what people in the early 1990s knew about the future? [/quote]

They built in 2004 by then they definitely knew what was going to happen.   They should have built Clarksburg on the new site or planned for the expansion...It was such a waste.[/quote]

Be careful. They make the same arguments now. Families don't live in apartments! Developers don't need to fund schools! Millennials won't have many kids! [/quote]

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