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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for raising this issue OP.
There are a number of MCPS schools that are really in terrible, almost dangerous disrepair. I think [b]most people on this board do not have kids in these schools because they are the ones in poorer areas that have been badly neglected.[/b]

Pipes have burst in some of them, spewing sewage water. Boards are coming up from the gym floors and the gyms are really dark because the electrical is broken and cannot be fixed without tearing up a lot of the walls. Water fountains are closed for months due to contamination.
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This is just not true.  Wootton is a mess, and it's more well off than most.  The fact is there are 209 schools  amd at any given moment one is brand new (Clarksburg ES) and one is at the top of the list to be renovated (Wootton, Eastern, Damascas) and most are inbetween. In a continum of 209, there's a lot of new buildings (Gaithersberg HS, Paint Branch HS, neither socioeconomically well off), and many already mentioned that need a lot of help.  The reality is, even with a large CIP budget, back in 2018 (I think that's when then Council Member Roger Berliner's "Keeping the Pace" event was), it would have cost over $8 BILLION to catch-up with needed repairs/maintenance/renovations.  By now  the need is greater and the cost is greater.

The reality is parents usually only care about the schools their children attend, MCPS has to care about ALL of them.  FYI, I do not work for MCPS, and am one of their biggest critics, and my children's schools are a mix of somewhere in the middle and deplorable.  But parents need to look at the bigger picture here, because it's not just about their own schools.[/quote]

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