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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"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."

You're apparently in need of a GPS.  Sure Churchill itself sits about 10 miles from Northwood, but it's at least 15, if not 20, miles from most of Potomac to Northwood HS, and much of that is on the Capital Beltway.  That's what every parent wants, their child on a bus inching along the Beltway for an hour in the morning rush.  It's only 11 miles form Olney to Northwood, and that's on GA Ave., no Beltway needed.  So before you make snarky assumptions about the motivations of the Churchill parents, I suggest you do a little bit of research.  Otherwise you look like a fool.[/quote]

Since you want to deflect the issue by nit picking over mileage and insulting me let me call your attention to the fact that Sherwood is located in Sandy Spring and not Olney.  Perhaps you need a better GPS.  Some students live in Brinklow, Brookeville, and Tridelphia.

You sidestepped the truth that Churchill parents refused to allow their children to be taken out of the their school while every single high school renovation before that used Northwood.  Is there any doubt that they used their political clout to pressure the BOE?

The real issue here is the decrepit condition of Poolesville High School.  It was built sixty years ago and had a minor renovation in 1978.  The corridors are as wide was you might see in an elementary school.  There is exposed wiring, mold, ceiling tiles missing, and the other defects that you can see on the video. This would never be tolerated in Potomac or Bethesda.[/quote]

YOU were the one that brought up mileage, I just proved you wrong.  BTW, some HS renovations both before and after Churchill have not used a holding school.  Whitman back in the early 1990's and RM just recently come to mind.

One thing's for sure.  Poolesville HS needs a reno.[/quote]

Let me jump in here.  "Whitman back in the 1990's and RM" do not apply to the discussion about the use of holding schools.  The new Whitman and RM buildings were built while the students remained in the old school next door.  When the new schools were finished the old buildings were demolished.  There was no need to move anyone.[/quote]

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