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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly, time to walk between building can conceivably be helped at the school level rather than shipping everyone around the county.[/quote]

What are you suggesting? Hoverboards in the hallways?[/quote]

Make the time between bells longer?  Have leeway for students with long walks?  Easier than hoverboards.[/quote]

Then they lose out on academic time.  Are you paying for the hoverboards?[/quote]

PP doesn't care. They know know the new capital project will never be approved, but that's fine because it's not their kid in an overcrowded school while classrooms at other schools sit empty. Gotta love MoCo community spirit.[/quote]

The only real solution is to build another school, down county under Blair as that's where it is needed.  But, really, MCPS has a spending problem and their priorities are wacked so it will never happen.  Many don't realize how much is lacking in the DCC schools outside Blair and Wheaton which make them popular.  They should not allow any students outside the DCC into Blair or Wheaton.  That would be a good start.[/quote]

Decade-long proposition, there, to build another school.  And one that was given cursory/unimaginative review close to a decade back so that they could say they considered it before discarding it in favor of building Woodward.

Too late, now, to be a solution for this boundary study, but probably not a bad idea for the future, what with the County Council and Montgomery Planning pushing for more and more density.  There's some magical thinking going on there that because there currently is extra capacity in MCPS overall, relief of DCC overcrowding is a trivial matter.[/quote]

Woodward is desperately needed for mid county but downcounty needs another school too.  [/quote]

Woodward reopening and the concurrent boundary shifts incorporating DCC populations being contemplated will have to do until, if ever, that other downcounty school is built.[/quote]

This is the problem though- the country govt wants denser and denser housing, but WTH are these extra kids supposed to go to school?  The council and MCPS need to be working together to identify both a location and funding for a new MS and HS downcounty.  It's irresponsible to keep pushing for more housing without the infrastucture to support it.[/quote]

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