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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like option B. It balances capacity issues (sorry DCC... WJ and Woodward need a buffer with the housing development concentrated in WJ and Woodward) and the split articulation issue (some care about this issue more than others).  Also, it tries to balance FARMS better than some others.

I'm submitting survey feedback in favor option B.

At least they improved it  from the prior rounds. [/quote]

How exactly does option B balance farms? [/quote]

It doesn't it's just the least bad on FARMS compared with the other 3 options so it gives White liberals in west county the warm fuzzies and eases their useless White guilt about hoarding public resources for themselves.[/quote]

Forget the farms issue and focus on strong course offerings at all schools. [/quote]

I literally just want them to utilize the space they spent hundreds of millions on and not leave it 25% empty while other buildings sit over crowded.[/quote]

Clearly that’s not the goal here.  And instead of spreading out kids who may need more,just give the schools more resources to support all kids.  [/quote]

You sound like a selfish pig who wants more space for your kids and less space for other kids. [/quote]

You sound like you are a nasty person.  No, I don’t care about space or farms, I care about access to courses.  You are a resource hoarder so keep it.  This entire plan hurts DCC schools and we may get less overcrowding but we lose resources, staff and classes.  Our kids are forced into MC or go without and it’s and issue when you cannot even get enough classes to graduate at your school.  [/quote]

How is any of that happen from the change in boundaries?  What new school with less offerings have you been rezoned to?[/quote]

The schools with less offerings are already like that.  If you reduce farms, you lose the extra funds.   If you remove students, you lose staffing allocations which means less classes.  You think they are going to do more offerings with less staff and resources?   How does that work?   Having farms is not a bad thing.  It’s the real word.  I don’t mind my kids going to school with your hardworking housekeepers kids.  [/quote]

Every HS will have less offerings
s because they will have less teachers. MCPS has to staff 2 new buildings plus the Damascus expansion. They have to balance the budget somewhere for the increased costs of these program studies and additional bus routes with new buildings[/quote]

Yes this has really bothered me since day 1. Totally understand the need for Woodward given WJ has been 800-1000 students over capacity for decades it feels like. This could also help relieve overcrowding from DCC schools and to a lesser extent RM and Churchill.

From day one though I’ve not understood the logic for Crown. It’s construction will likely cost $250M+ when all said and done and as you noted because two new schools are opening all schools will have reduced classes.

I feel like that money would have been better spent on accelerating the replacement/enlargement of QO (super tiny and overcrowded), finally replace Wootton (and enlarge helps relieve overcrowding at Gaithersburg HS), do the expansion at Damascus which will help alleviate overcrowding at Clarksburg, and possibly do a small addition at Churchill, Northwest and RM. 
Of course this all would have cost more than Crown, but the replacement of Wootton is likely due to happen in the next 5-7 years and QO in the next 10-12. So really that money is just reallocated to additions at 3-4 schools. Probably saves a ton of money in the long run to have a smaller number of slightly larger schools.

Really hoping we don’t see teachers lost at every school with resulting losses in classes.[/quote]

I thought they had to build within a specific timeframe as the land was given to them by developers but not sure if that’s true.  [/quote]

It is true, otherwise the land was going to revert to the city of Gaithersburg I think? But I think they made a poor financial decision because they felt forced to. And having one extra school when several others could have been made larger (QO, Watkins Mill and Churchill as 3 down/mid county schools with capacity of 1800-1950 doesn’t make sense).

Who knows where the teachers transfer from to fill Woodward and Crown but I’m assuming it’ll come from a lot of schools and result in losing some classes potentially. [/quote]

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