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[quote=Anonymous]Upcounty Wonk here again. From my perspective, you guys are looking at all the details but not asking the basics from MCPS. Are they making the most with what they’ve got? In your selection process, there are three School owned sites: Westland, Lynnbrook and Tilden. The first and last are an active schools, so I see complications with those options that I can’t speak to.  Lynnbrook, on the other hand, is the kind of MC gaffe that always gets my goat. I had a professional conference in B-Town yesterday, so I dropped in to see what the story was. I wandered in to the Lynnbrook Center. Quiet as a crypt. It took me a while to find 3 staffers tucked away in an office. No one addressed me at first, in fact they looked at each other wondering who would ask me who I was. It was clear that they don’t get outside visitors often.
   
I would ask MCPS Committee members HOW MANY SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WORK IN THE LYNNBROOK CENTER.  Looking online I found these 3 programs:

Glenmont Alternative Program -staff of 6
High Incidence Accessible Technology –staff of 4
Physical Disabilities Program – staff of ???

From my experience, the staff for disabilities staff works in schools. That’s a popular resource for parents with special needs children. But how large can the Admin Staff be?  The MCPS part of the building is not a busy place. The rest of the Lynnbrook center is a daycare site as a PP said. School buses were dropping off kids in the late afternoon. And yes, the building is a shabby time warp. If this was an active school, I doubt that parents would accept that condition.

This building in MCPS inventory is not meeting its capability. That’s the standard that MCPS should be held to, before you look at walking radii, access roads, parks.

UCW 
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