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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At 1hr 2min on the video the sidewalks rant lady with kids who graduated 13 years ago is a trip.[/quote]

There's two posts talking about this lady and I think her message got lost a bit or people just take things out of context and see what they want to see.

I think her points were:

-MCPS and Montgomery County had thought or tried to implement pedestrian safety but failed to do so with the inadequate sidewalks from the Willows to Frost.  So what guarantee do families have now that they can trust the plan for pedestrian safety to Crown

-then I guess her point about Lakewood was that the renovations were done in a year and a half with the utilization of a holding school

I'm probably a bit biased too but watching the video I didn't think it was as bad as posts on here seem to indicate.  Maybe things went a bit off the rails towards the end.  But I've seen worse in other school systems that didn't even involve school closures/moving.[/quote]

ps have fun and we'll see how you all react when your local elementary or local schools close due to the upcoming boundary studies or to align with the regional programs.  Kind of different when it actually affects you right?[/quote]

Not sure what you mean. The woman ranting about sidewalks last had kids in school during the Obama presidency. Meanwhile you have a school counselor talking about kids passing out in her 80-degree office.[/quote]

Or you can look at it as she's been there and done that.  And she's questioning MCPS's thought process and rationale in their decisions because they've proven to have issues before.

And all signs are pointing to either Ridgeview MS or Lakelands Park MS closing, due to Fields Road ES being moved to Frost to align with the regional boundaries.

Even when the initial proposals were first presented and only affected a small portion of the Wootton community, initially the PTA stance at the schools were that the issues were not in their control or scope.  But now look, the entire Wootton community is drawn in, just like those initial community members warned.

This can very well just be the first that we see MCPS making decisions on unclear processes, data and decisions.

And we can very well see more like this.  What they're closing one of the QO middle schools because they had to send an elementary school to another middle school to put them in a different regional program (where there are questions about the costs and logistics for the regional program)

With the elementary school boundary changes, other school communities will need to face the prospect of either their current school will close or they will be reassigned to another boundary.

With the Rosemont/Crown contingent. It really is about getting the Wootton students for them.  Because look at how vehement some of the opposition when it's suggested that the Crown site be used as a holding school.  Because the suggestion is to keep things the same for them and Fields Road until Crown is open as it's own school.  So Fields Road would still go to QO in the meantime.  Does Crown go to Gaithersburg HS?  But then you see posters saying how it's not fair to the Crown families.  How is it not fair?  It's just no changes for them right now.  But that means they are the ones that want to segregate as well because they don't want to go to the Gaithersburg schools and even better if they can get the Wootton students to go to their school.[/quote]

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