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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving Alt Programs to Aspen Hill will kill that community on so many levels.

The county spent quite a bit renovating Ewing Center during Alt's redesign, only to move the school to what was once an elementary school in Aspen Hill.

bad move [/quote]

Unfortunately the community associations (Aspen Hill Civic Association and the AH Homeowners Group) were NOT made aware of the plans until late in the process.  There's a website currently discussing the issue:  http://www.saveenglishmanor.org/

There is actually a charter school (School for Tomorrow - http://www.sftedu.org/our-school/) currently renting out that building and they were not made aware of the plans either.  
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sad, I know

I have a good friend in that area and another friend who sent her child to the private school.

I can't see how this move would benefit any of the stakeholders.  Alternative Programs educates some challenging kids who need space and quite a few resources to assist them academically and emotionally.  The building itself isn't set up to house potentially hundreds of kids (currently there are about 120 enrolled) in middle and high school.

Furthermore, while we don't like using NIMBY, this move will indeed affect property values.  I certainly wouldn't want to live in an area near an alternative setting.  These are students with severe emotional issues who either were asked to leave their traditional setting or who were PLACED there by the system itself.  They arrive from all over the county.  So imagine the number of buses pulling in and out each day. It's not as though those streets are wide enough to accommodate the buses.

I find it odd that the system spent hundreds of thousands renovating the Ewing building during Alt Program's redesign only to send the kids off to another setting that doesn't have the capacity to house the students and faculty.  Something isn't quite right.

I hope the neighborhood can fight it.

If MCPS had "space" in Bethesda or Potomac, it certainly wouldn't be used to house Alternative Programs!

much luck to the community in fighting such a disastrous move

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