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[quote=Anonymous]At its current enrollment of 1200 students Westland is already a big school  The Gazette reported yesterday that the "By 2017 there are projected to be 200 6th-graders that cannot be accommodated" in Westland's current building.  So an expanded Westland would not have an appreciatively larger student body.  Moreover, expansion would allow an opportunity to re-structure the school both physically and organizationally to make it feel smaller and more intimate through by creating learning communities within the larger school.  This model is already being implemented with considerable success in middle schools and high schools across the country.

With re to the necessary parcel size for an ES, that info again comes from the Gazette's reporting on MCPS policy.  While there are schools in the system that are much smaller than 10 acres, those schools were built decades ago.  Westbrook is significantly overcrowded and Somerset, which my children attended, is already bursting at the seams despite its renovation less than 10 years ago, which left it with very little outdoor space.

I don't live in EBeth, so I don't have a dog in this fight, but having lived there in the early '90s I know how significant the park is to that community.  The same is probably true in every neighborhood, so it just makes sense to consider sites that don't require taking parkland away from any community.       
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