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RM was brand new as of 2007, not modernized.  I think the point is many other schools are GLEAMING better than Churchill and the county doesn't give special attention to those clusters.  They aren't having the growth the other areas are so why would they have portables?   In the last 10-15 years there has been Kendlands, Lakelands, Kings Farm, Fallsgrove, Clarksburg, Boyds, Rockville Town Center, Park Potomac, Crown, Strathmore, new condo/apartment construction along 355, 28, Darnestown Rd. North Bethesda, Twinbrook etc...    Huge populations in a smaller locations and maybe 1 or 2 new schools to go along with it.  This would be a non-issue if they agreed with the multi-million dollar builders to BUILD schools when making these massive new developments.  They chose not to and now they are scrambling year after year to keep up.  They can not budget, prioritize or do anything in advance.  They wait until the shit hits the fan and then whines.  [/quote]

[b]In most places (Clarksburg is an obvious exception), schools are over capacity because people with children are moving into existing houses. There are plenty of schools that are over capacity even though there has been little or no new development in the area. [/b]

Also, should we list all of the capital spending in the Churchill cluster that has occurred in the past few years, is occurring now, or is planned for the near future? (Speaking of places where MCPS is spending capital funds even though there has been little or no new development in the area.)[/quote]

The bolded is completely false. Huge developments such as Fallsgrove and Kings Farm that started up with zero planned schools have overfilled schools beyond capacity with no end in site.  It was county's fault for not securing land and making the builders build adequate schools for these areas back then.  I believe there are 7 portables at both College Gardens and Ritchie Park and it has everything to do with those new developments feeding into them.  If people with children moving into old homes is an issue why are schools like Cold Spring, Dufief, Fallsmead, with no development or boundary changes [u]under[/u] capacity?

Find me a school that has more than 2-3 portables (or any portables) that has had no new development or boundary changes in the last 10-15 years.  [/quote]

Well, that's what Bruce Crispell says. And he knows where all of the students live. Maybe you have a data source that he doesn't have?[/quote]

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