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My youngest just graduated from Bethesda Elementary last year and I love that school.

Ms. Seymour has worked incredibly hard for years to bring awareness of downtown overcrowding, as have the Principals at the middle school and high school level for our cluster, as well as the surrounding clusters. I hope you're not blaming each school's administration, but rather the lack of funding and inertia at the County and State level. They hold the purse-strings.

There is a study being done right now to assess where to put in a new elementary in our area, and whether to share it with the Walter Johnson cluster, also overcrowded. Woodward high school will be opened in 2025 on Old Georgetown Rd, which will provide some relief at the high school level.

MCPS IS OVERCROWDED AND IT'S SHAMEFUL HOW LATE THE STATE AND COUNTY ARE RESPONDING. [b]DEVELOPERS ARE FRIENDS WITH OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AT EVERY LEVEL. [/b]THEY ARE GIVEN PRIORITY OVER OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.

I'll tell you what we need to do: something has to give. The public school budget is already weighing extremely heavily on the State's finances. We need to take a good hard look at what we can cut from MCPS, to preserve a decent teacher:student ratio in core classes, which is the backbone of a good education. It's sad to say, but as a parent who has lived through multiple private and public school systems, here and in different countries, we cannot have our cake and eat it too. We can enact laws to stave off development, which will impact our local economy but stabilize the school system so it doesn't traumatize a generation of kids, but we can't magic money that doesn't exist to build new schools. Cuts are in order, whether we like it or not.

The question is: where?

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Hold the fort on this bs!  It is your elected officials who are demanding multi family low income housing in huge numbers, not the developers.  This is NOT profitable on any level.  And if you think the numbers being used by your representatives which usually show a negative for families in these units are accurate you are sadly mistaken.  Just sit outside the apartments on Westbard any morning and watch the number of county buses picking up students, hint, it is not just one bus.  Multiple elementary school buses, etc. as is the case at the condominiums in Friendship Heights.  You have families living in two bedroom units sometimes with three children and YOU as the voter have got to get that considered when school population numbers are being gathered for planning purposes.  I really am so sick of the blame the business mentality when it comes to this matter.  This is about your politicians and your planners, wake up and take action against those people.  Constantly spewing hate at developers/businesses is just a foolish waste of time.  [/quote]

I have to agree.

They make BS projections saying that there are not many kids living in 2BR apartments and condos, and yet the apartment complex that feeds into my kid's elementary school has not one, but two (2!) bus routes assigned to it.

Plus, our neighborhood has had a proliferation of SFHs being turned into multi-family rentals, with zero enforcement of housing code violations.  MCPS projections must be way out of whack.  [/quote]

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