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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is correct that what SSIMS supporters have posted is not "misinformation."

But also, it's certainly not a "given" that SSIMS boundaries will change if it stays open.[/quote]

SSIMS boundaries change dramatically if A-D are chosen-- about half the kids leave and are replaced with new kids from other schools.

If E-G are chosen, SSIMS kids stay together, only splitting if SSIMS actually closes.  You can't see it on the maps, but the effects tables make it clear that the pre-SSIMS closure/non-SSIMS closure options keep current SSIMS kids at SSIMS.[/quote]

Right, what I'm saying is that I don't think it's a "given" that if 1 of Option A-D is chosen for the high school boundaries, they'll go ahead and make the MS boundary changes associated with that option as well. Maybe I'm giving MCPS too much credit, but as I posted earlier, L Stewart and Taylor agreed that transferring kids to a school whose status is in limbo is not cool.[/quote]

Laura Stewart and Superintendent Taylor agreed that it was undesirable for kids to be transferred to a school whose status is in limbo, which all of options A-D do.  And options A-D are also hard to adjust to avoid that, because there is SO much change in Silver Spring middle school assignments in those.   So they created options E-G to fix the problem-- three options that are designed to work well before/without SSIMS closing (the 2027-2030 version on the website, but which could continue onwards if SSIMS doesn't close), as well as if/after SSIMS closes (the post-2030 version on the website.)

Now people are lobbying against options E-G out of a childish "well, I don't see SSIMS on the maps in options E-G, so if one of those is chosen it must mean that SSIMS will close!" mentality, even though it has been very clearly stated that a decision on closing SSIMS will not happen until 2027 and would require a full Board vote, and even though anyone who stops to think about it for 10 seconds realizes that *of course* options E-G have a plan for what happens if SSIMS isn't closed, because SSIMS was never supposed to be closed in 2027-2028 when the new boundaries take effect so there always had to be a plan. [/quote]

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