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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is correct that what SSIMS supporters have posted is not "misinformation."

But also, it's certainly not a "given" that SSIMS boundaries will change if it stays open.[/quote]

SSIMS boundaries change dramatically if A-D are chosen-- about half the kids leave and are replaced with new kids from other schools.

If E-G are chosen, SSIMS kids stay together, only splitting if SSIMS actually closes.  You can't see it on the maps, but the effects tables make it clear that the pre-SSIMS closure/non-SSIMS closure options keep current SSIMS kids at SSIMS.[/quote]

You are yet again missing the point. [b]Keeping SSIMS kids together is not the goal. Keeping SSIMS open is the goal.[/b] I'm not sure how to put it more plainly. [/quote]

This. Thank you. [/quote]

Weird.  It's really important to you to keep it open but you don't care if your kids go there or not?  [/quote]

It's not weird. It's an acknowledgement of the reality that there is a huge boundary study going on right now and school assignments are changing throughout the broader area. The argument that a school should only exist if its boundaries remain static is a logical fallacy. Every school in this boundary study—Sligo, Silver Spring International, Takoma Park—will likely see its catchment area shift. If those schools are only worth keeping open under their current articulation pattern, there would be reason to close all of them too. Your argument simply does not make sense.

Keeping SSIMS open isn’t about protecting a specific group of students or maintaining a static boundary; it’s about maintaining the integrity of the entire downcounty MS cluster. Closing it would turn Eastern into the largest middle school in MCPS.  I don't want that -- for my kids or for other kids.

Furthermore, I don’t want a vital building in the heart of DTSS to sit vacant and rot, nor do I want to trade a walkable community for increased bus traffic in a dense urban area. MCPS should be exhausting all other holding school options before we even consider dismantling a successful, walkable community institution -- and they have not shown yet that they have done that.
 
But this has all been explained already so I'm not sure why I am trying to explain it again in response to this very simple-minded argument.

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+100

And I don’t think the argument is just simple minded. It’s purposefully gaslighting and misconstruing what the Save our Schools group is advocating for. [/quote]

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