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Meant to say high rises. It is wishful thinking that current data about children in high rises will be true in 10 years. It is like budgeting for a family of four with kids in ES and imagining that budget will still feed them when they are teenagers. The data may be true today, but [b]the projected trend is clearly going to change[/b].[/quote]

Your statement is based on what? Has there been an increasing trend in the number of MCPS students per high-rise unit?

[b]You make decisions based on the information you currently have[/b]. [/quote]

And that, right there, folks, is why your kids are mashed into lines of portable classrooms covering their playground blacktop and eating lunch at 10:40 am.[/quote]

How do you make an information-based decision using information you don't have? I'm asking sincerely. [/quote]

But the information we don’t have is precisely my point. Basing decisions on solitary data points and not projections over time is just terrible planning. Pretending that solitary data points justify current decisions is also terrible planning. This kind of wishful thinking about making decisions on what is happening now and basing infrastructure on current status instead of accurately projected status is exactly why so many schools are overcrowded. Planning Board decided that because SFH were where children used to live, that is where they would always live. 10 years later... Surprise! Some time spent analyzing the changing populations and demographics of the county would have been useful in understanding just how many children would be in townhouses.

Now, I don’t have this data. I’m a SAH mom on DCUM during baby’s nap time. But just because I’m in yoga pants with bad hair doesn’t mean I don’t have eyes in my head. Do developers think we are stupid? I live up near Germantown and Clarksburg. I am super unimpressed with MoCo Planning Board. And this blog feels very suspiciously like laying the groundwork for some wide-eyed innocence “just the facts, Ma’am” about some upcoming terrible planning choices. Schools are crowded. Traffic is insane. Fields are getting plowed under every day. Many people with little kids can’t afford SFH’s anymore and it is OBVIOUS to anyone with some basic imagination that high rises are very likely going to be the new townhomes if our population continues to grow at the same pace. How much? I don’t know. Planning Board should care to know, to find out, to make decently accurate predictions based on reality and the welfare of our county and not just on what developers WISH would be true. And throwing their hands into the air and saying that they can’t possibly figure it out because who can tell the future, let’s just look at what we know NOW is the opposite of what the Planning Board is supposed to be any good at.[/quote]

Agree completely.

Stats can be made to appear differently, based on the motivations of the person presenting them.

I KNOW my kids’ schools are overcrowded because I see it every single day.  My one kid has lunch at 10:40 and my other kid doesn’t get lunch until 1pm because there is just no other way to get all the classes in.  We just had an addition built on our school and it is ALREADY at capacity. Any more housing developments, and we will be over.  My kid has indoor recess smashed in with another class full of kids because there is nowhere else for them to go.  Two  classes of 25 kids smooshed into one ES classroom is pathetic.

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