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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't followed the site selection debate closely (though my kids attended a BCC Cluster ES, we moved them to private school after that, and they're now in HS and college) but there doesn't seem to have been much discussion about expanding Westland.  Perhaps I've missed this?  If not, however, I wonder whether that might offer an option that would allow the project to go forward without running into controversy over re-drawing school boundaries as well as n-hood protests over losing parkland.  With re to the latter, while there's always a NIMBY element to those arguments, I have to say that when our children were very little we lived in EBeth., and Lynbrook Park was what pulled that n-hood together into a real community.  I imagine the same is probably true of Rock Creek Hills Park.  (I don't know the Lyttonsville site at all, so I can't comment on that).

Adjacent to Westland are rarely-used (and poorly-maintained) tennis courts already owned by the County and a sparsely used parking lot owned by a private interest (presumably by the owner of Westbard shopping center).  Could this be the site for an expansion of Westland?  I know one argument against this might be that the student body would be too large, but there are solutions to that -- perhaps a separate building for the 6th-graders?  or for the 8th-graders?  a house system to create smaller learning communities within a larger school?  It just seems like this project is getting bogged down in an endless repeat of site identification followed by n-hood protest, followed by selection of another site . . . . and in the meantime the kids'  need are not being served.      [/quote]

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