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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is providing a clear plan except to rant.   Older schools don’t have and hvac system and are on a water boiler system.   They don’t have the duct for an hvac.  Many of these schools need to be torn down like ours but they only get done when things are so bad and they usually only do one at a time.  The money goes to the rich schools where parents advocate and some of those schools have had multiple renovations.  Your schools are probably ok, ours are not but since they all fall under mcps you cannot open.  You need to advocate for the schools not up to standards, not just yours.  Instead of all that Astro turf we could have had a new roof and working windows. [/quote]

Well, you put it this way and it’s apparent that MCPS and county leadership’s failure is complete.[/quote]

Pretty much... there is no excuse for how they have chosen to spend the money and they need auditors and to get rid of the wasteful spending and do the repairs/new schools we need.  Likewise we really need twice as many schools as we have now to deal with overcrowding.

There is no way to "fix" the school we are at.  It needs to be torn down.  We were supposed to get a remodel of at least the front entrance for safety reasons this summer and the project was canceled.  So, if we have a shooter situation, the staff have no way to at least try to stop it.  Many windows don't open, not all teachers have their own classrooms and float to various classrooms with a cart, some classrooms don't have windows, leaking roof and mold issues, not enough bathrooms, not enough desks (they have to pull desks between classrooms for classes), 25-33 kids per class.

And those who say to do it outside, many families are struggling with food, high farms school, let alone to get adequate clothing to be outside 6+ hours a day.  We've tried and tried to get donations with little success.  You cannot compare the wealthier schools with the other schools so the only way to do it is to open the rich schools and keep the "poor" schools closed.  What is sad is those rich schools are the ones demanding child care and reopening and blame it on the poor schools but we are all making it work and more worried about the basics the kids and families need vs. reopening.  (thankfully the county is providing a lot of food but our parents work during the day and cannot easily get it).[/quote]

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