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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page[/quote]

Nope.  They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after.  Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.[/quote]

It's not clear what they'll do. They obviously didn't give Flo Analytics the numbers to reflect the higher capacities at Eastern and Sligo, because the capital budget hasn't been approved yet. But they could opt to leave those MS assignments as is for now, given the expected later boundary study for SSIMS specifically.[/quote]

Yes, they should have and could have, since obviously MCPS has known the SSIMS closure was in the works and could have given Flo the heads' up to leave its boundaries alone in all or at least one option.  But instead, its boundaries change wildly in all 4 options, adding Woodlin kids and a portion of Flora Singer kids and in one scenario some ESS kids (and moving Forest Knolls and Pine Crest kids out of SSIMS.). It's just stupid, too, since the Forest Knolls and MK/Pine Crest kids stay zoned to Northwood under all the options and get moved to Sligo and Eastern MS respectively, when there's no good reason not to leave them at SSIMS for its last few years and then let them get reassigned later.  Instead

So basically they'll make Woodlin, Flora Singer, MK/PC, and Forest Knolls kids (and maybe some ESS kids) all move middle schools for a few years-- including creating split MS articulation for all those schools under most options except Woodlin-- and then everyone ends up at Sligo and Eastern in the end like they would have anyway.

But everyone here says that the superintendent will only pick from one of the 4 crappy options currently on the table. So I guess that means this dumb and disruptive temporary musical chairs still needs to happen.[/quote]

I guess we'll have to see, but I think there's a good chance he'll modify an option to just keep everyone currently zoned to Sligo, Eastern and SSIMS at those schools for the time being. None of the three is overcrowded, so there's no reason anyone there has to be rezoned for MS in 2027.[/quote]

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