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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS is not planning to build schools without auditoriums. They are DELAYING the build to a later phase and not FUNDING the construction of said auditoriums with this fiscal year’s budget.

You can be skeptical that it will be funded in future years, but that is just skepticism.[/quote]

Yes, this. They are staging the projects in phases due to the capital budget situation. They have every intention of building the auditoriums.[/quote]

I guess due to budget constraints, the phase 3 could be another 10 years [/quote]

There's no reason to expect that. At the board meeting yesterday, they were talking about a one or two year delay.[/quote]

Which means students will go to high school without an auditorium. Future construction is meaningless to current students.[/quote]

The plan all along for the Northwood students has been to be at the Woodward holding school with no auditorium. That's been known to be the case for years now, and somehow people could accept that.[/quote]

The plan wasn't phased originally.  As it got closer to adoption, it became phased, with Northwood getting the short shrift -- construction during occupancy, no athletic fields and no auditorium, all of which were then to be complete by the time the W students moved in.

With the auditorium moved into a Phase 3, they'll shrug their shoulders about DCC relief that was, at first, supposed to come directly, then was re-envisioned into some draw from the DCC into a Woodward arts magnet.  That was the bill of goods that was sold and progressively walked back after eschewing options for direct relief of the DCC with a new HS, where the alternatingly unimaginative and unpleasant strawman options presented were all deemed unworkable and/or too expensive.[/quote]

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