Reply to Downcounty middle school magnet location

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Downcounty middle school magnet location"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are we arguing that Poolesville had a "slipping demographic"?[/quote]

Poolesville is not a Downcounty middle school magnet. Only Eastern and Takoma are.[/quote]

Yes but why is Poolesville also in the furthest reaches of the Montgomery County universe?

Both HS magnet programs are not accessible to DC commuters.  Why is that?[/quote]

On the contrary, Blair is very accessible to DC communities. The high-school servers mostly families living inside the beltway and frankly if you really valued your child's education you'd live closer to the good schools.[/quote]

If you live in Gaithersburg, Rockville, etc. neither program is really accessible.  Public education is meant to serve, oh, I don't know - the Public?

"2019 – 2020 Official Enrollment as of September 30, 2019 was 1,205 students"  https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/01_Introduction.pdf

"Poolesville High will also undergo a major building project. [..] The project is estimated to cost about $60 million, according to school district documents. It will increase Poolesville High’s capacity from 1,170 students to about 1,500 students."  https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/school-board-approves-preliminary-plans-for-burnt-mills-elementary-poolesville-high-projects/

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/02b_Utilization.pdf

"the new Poolesville High School transforms its educational campus into a series of collaborative learning environments for 1,800 students."  https://www.vmdo.com/poolesville-high-school.html

The school was only slightly overcapacity by 3% in 2019, but the boundary analysis utilization report shows it wasn't the highest nail in terms of capacity issues.  Also, according to VMDO (the contractor?), Poolesville HS will have a 630 student higher capacity, not just 330.

[b]So on one side of the mouth, MCPS is saying the magnet was moved to Poolesville because there were a lot of empty seats up there, but on the other side of the mouth, the school needs a $60M upgrade to add 630 student seats?  Ooops.[/b]

If MCPS wanted to save money, they could just move the magnet program to Crown where more families could access it, and boom, could pay $60M for more critical renovations needed at other schools.[/quote]
I don't see the problem there. Both can be and is true. 
One is past, one is future.[/quote]

You must work for the MCPS Central Office or board, since you're totally oblivious to the $60M dollar spend that didn't need to happen.

If a school with a magnet is overcrowded, just move the magnet to another school.  In this case, Crown is opening soon and the boundaries have yet to be drawn (unless, of course, MCPS Central Office and board is pulling another fast one on parents?) and could accept the Magnet program from Poolesville.  Same goes for Blair, that has a high number of relocatable classrooms  Why are kids sitting in trailers when you could just move the magnet to another location?  [b]The perfect spot would be to relocate the Blair magnet closer to the beltway split, to serve parents commuting in all directions (DC, MD, VA)[/b].

The $60M of taxpayer money could have been used to address issues elsewhere.  This is why when MCPS keeps demanding more and more funding every year to build a house of cards and fund foolish programs, someone will question it sooner or later.[/quote]
Do you actually know where Blair is located? [/quote]

It's about 20 mins from where we live in SS. Maybe 5 minutes further than say BCC but still very convenient. So compared to most boundaries it's one of the worst but there are not many HS inside the beltway.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics