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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the BOE votes yes, it’s a vote to hurt Brown Stations ES https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/[/quote]

They really didn’t focus on how these last minute changes harmed Brown as well as Wheaton Woods. They weren’t giving us real proposals during the process just soliciting feedback, then showing their true hand at the end. I don’t think that is the way it should work.[/quote]

This is a plan to close Ridgeview or Lakelands MS.

If you look at the Superintendent’s recommendation, it creates a situation in which all of the MSs are in the desired capacity range except Ridgeview and Lakelands which are both around 50% capacity. The projections for the 2029-30 school year of enrollment of Ridgeview + Lakelands = almost exactly 100% capacity at the Lakelands Park building.

This is[b] Taylor’s plan for finding money for other initiatives, maintenance, etc. Close SSIMS and Ridgeview.  Take the old Wootton building out of the running for construction and maintenance dollars. [/b]

I don’t know what ESs may be on the chopping block but it sure looks like Ridgeview is - with those kids getting moved to Lakelands Park. [/quote]

At least SSIMS was honestly designated a closure.  Closure is a process and MCPS is an LEA, local education authority, in a, SEA, state education authority.  Maryland has regulations on public school closures.  Part of that is where the LEA proposes to[b] relocate [/b]students from the closed schools.   This is the process on closure https://regulations.justia.com/states/maryland/title-13a/subtitle-02/chapter-13a-02-09/section-13a-02-09-01/

I posted about this issue previously.  Relocation is just part of the closure.  https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/garrett/Board.nsf/files/CPQLA554A890/$file/COMAR%2013A.02.09%20-%20Closing%20of%20Schools.pdf[/quote]

Are you the weird person who thinks Wootton is being closed?

It's funny that you keep pointing to SSIMS, because that provides a perfect example of why the Wootton move is nothing like a closure.

If/when SSIMS closes, they'll close the school, let all the teachers and staff go and send them off to apply for jobs anywhere else in the county, all SSIMS-specific classes and extracurriculars and policies and practices will vanish, students will be split up and assigned who knows where and become part of brand new and often radically different schools, etc.

Does that sound anything like what is happening to Wootton?  Not at all, right?  Wootton is moving a couple miles and a small number of kids are changing (in exactly the same way as tons of other schools are having boundaries change right now, and not complaining that the boundaries shifts radically change their school and identity because it is truly not a big deal), but other than that literally everything will be the same.  Same name, same leadership, same teachers and staff, same classes, same extracurriculars, same policies, same everything.

Do you realize it makes you sound like a 5 year old when you pretend that a short move and a minor boundary change is anything like what school communities being wiped out of existence in a real school closure have to deal with? [/quote]

The neighborhood is losing its high school - yes, they are going to another facility as a cohort, but there is something about the social compact of a neighborhood school that is important, and there is loss there. Just chill and let people be upset, if they need to eb.[/quote]

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