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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, your statement has got some major inaccuracies that I've seen repeated elsewhere on this site. You said:

"1. MS#2 site selection: Two sites for MS#2 were proposed that made more logical sense than the current location.

The first was to co-locate at RHES. Amazingly, the RCF neighborhood opposed this option because at the time they believed that access to Westland was better for their property values."

The first MS#2 site selection committee selected the Rosemary Hills/Lyttonsville Local Park as the site for the new middle school. This would have been close to, but not co-located with RHES. The Rock Creek Forest ES reps on the committee advocated for that site, on the premise that locating a middle school close to the RCF and Rosemary Hills neighborhoods would be beneficial to the families in the neighborhood, many of whom face transportation issues. Sounds familiar, right? The opposition that arose did not come from the Rock Creek Forest community but rather from the Lyttonsville and Rosemary Hills communities which attend RHES and NCC/CCES schools! So, you've got members of the CCES/NCC/RH communities to thank for scuttling both of the larger MS#2 school sites under consideration. 
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YES. [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-schools-insider/post/timeline-in-bethesda-chevy-chase-a-school-becomes-a-park-becomes-an-almost-school/2011/11/09/gIQAPT6A5M_blog.html[/url][/quote]

Thanks for posting. This is interesting and I'm new to the district so I didn't know the background. Since all the schools in the area are overcrowded, one of these other sites may yet be developed into a school.

Has there been any discussion of an additional HS in this part of the county? If development continues, it doesn't seem possible that all these kids are going to fit into BCC.  Maybe splitting the district and creating a Rock Creek Forest High School could happen down the road. [/quote]

Who knows?  Your comment raises an interesting side note, though.  During the fight over where to site the new school, people near that site proposed  that the Jones Bridge Road site could be turned into a new B-CC HS, and the old B-CC HS could be the second middle school, as it met many of the criteria (central location, size,etc.).  Of course, the people near the Jones Bridge site opposed the idea, and, mysteriously, their streets were made one-way out of their community (probably because of the new WR traffic).  The BOE certainly wasn't going to consider the idea, so it never saw the light of day.  When you read over these many pages (unbelievable!), especially with the complains about overcrowding and development, you (well, at least I) start to wonder what the possibilities would have been. 32 acres is a big sight for a high school down county.  [/quote]

The MCPS Capital Improvement Program budget, that was released today, provides excellent insight into what is planned.

BCC cluster: MS#2, BCC expansion (will be the last ever), and mysteriously an expansion of RH is proposed. RH is the only ES in the cluster with spare capacity right now, however it is not usable capacity because both CCES and NCC are over capacity. It is important to note that Lyttonsville Sector Plan is currently under consideration, so this might be tied into that. Sligo MS in Silver Spring and also has spare capacity and SS-International MS has an expansion budgeted too. So it is possible that Lyttonsville might get moved out of the cluster to accommodate both the Chevy Chase Lake and downtown Bethesda sector plans. Or... I am sensing that some of the new multi-family apartments in downtown Bethesda might get bussed over there, as there would not be a strong political constituency to oppose it because ridiculously there is nothing planned to address over capacity at any of the other ESs in the cluster.

Whitman cluster: Expansion of Pyle and Whitman is planned, most likely to address the Westbard sector plan.

WJ: Tilden MS will move back to the Tilden Ln site, which will be renovated and expanded. But most interestingly, it looks like a new HS will be re-opened at the Woodward HS site where Tilden is now. It looks like it will take a lot of current WJ students north of the Beltway and it says that they want to make boundaries include Downcounty Consortium schools, like Einstein.

This could mean that WJ would be able to take some current Whitman capacity which could have a knock-on effect with BCC, etc. But... it seems that touching BCC and Whitman boundaries is dangerous, judging by the responses on MS#2 in this thread. And this all presupposes that these morons at BOE/MCPS and the Council/Planning Board actually have longer term plans, or even medium term plans. Judging by the inadequacy of the capital improvement budget, I seriously doubt that they do.[/quote]

Thank you for the interesting analysis. Regarding one point, "But... it seems that touching BCC and Whitman boundaries is dangerous, judging by the responses on MS#2 in this thread," I'm not sure you should bank on it. The county and BOE have so Balkanized the communities that they know. even if the communities have the ability to go to court, there is no way the communities can muster enough resources to sustain a prolonged battle against them. The reality is that they will do what they want because they can, and like all good fascists, they will dismiss those who dare contradict them, while exacting taxes to do it.  Like a boot stomping on a human face. [/quote]

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