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Reply to "Schools near metro will get more housing without overcrowding relief"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone remember Roger Berliners 'Keeping the Pace' forum some years back? People before you have been advocating for more school capacity (and funding for that capacity building) for decades. [b]All its gotten us[/b] is billions behind and unable to ever catch up. By allowing and supporting never ending building, with no checks and balances for school capacity, you are contributing to making a bad problem worse. A big part of the problem? With 160,000 students, the families without children in schools outnumber those with children in schools by a wide margin. Not to mention, most students aren't old enough to vote and don't donate to political campaigns. BTW, it is not a zero sum game: you can be for affordable housing and for more funds for school capacity at the same time[/quote] That was in 2015. Since then, what have we gotten? A lot of new schools, new school buildings, and additions. Of course, a big chunk of that has been in Clarksburg. if you want to argue that Clarksburg was a bad idea, I won't disagree. However, people who live in Clarksburg presumably will disagree.[/quote] DP. [b]A more relevant observation would be whether we have more or less overcrowding since 2015.[/b] Not on average, as that would not represent the higher need areas, but comparing the percentages, then and now, of students attending school in facilities that are above capacity (including those needing to use portables, as those diminish outdoor facilities like playgrounds) or that present some other capital deficit. New schools are helpful, but only to those areas getting those schools (or nearby areas that get relief through associated boundary changes).[/quote] Why? MCPS has spent a large amount of money on new schools, and most of the enrollment growth (except in Clarksburg, obviously) comes from students who live in [u]existing[/u] housing.[/quote]
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