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Well, seriously, we do need a new middle school. So, let's build one that would provide parity with other middle schools in the county! Now, every Montgomery County middle school on a site that is smaller than 13 acres is adjacent to a park. This "co-location" allows schools and parks to share space & especially athletic fields. A middle school would "obliterate" Rock Creek Hills Park – there would not be a park left —  A middle school built on the site of Rock Creek Hills Park would be uniquely inadequate, county-wide. Would anyone in the Bethesda – Chevy Chase cluster want that?

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I have to disagree with you. We in the down county area really need to get over this weird idea that if we don'y have a big patch of land to build a large MS on then our children won't receive a good education. We simply do not have that amount of land available for cheap (what MCPS wants to pay $0). We should start thinking urban, smaller and more vertical or better designed less land hungry schools.

I know that is a big argument for not using RCH for new school site, but the design has shown it can work. I don't think kids will receive a lesser education because they don't have 20 acres. But then, maybe the Lynnbrook site should also be re-examined. There are easements that could be worked out that would make that site feasible.

If we don't do these common sense things now, we will end up with no park land.

btw - To find out the latest MCPS blunder go to -  http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2012/03/answer-pulte-middle-school.html

And we trust them to get their facts straight?

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