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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope they reconsider. Closing a poorer school so that rich west county schools can have a holding school isn’t a good look.[/quote]

West county has holding schools. Piney Branch ES parents in Takoma Park complained to the superintendent to get a nearby holding school. There isn't a down-county ES holding school when these schools are rebuilt.

As part of his recalculating numerous facilities, Taylor proposed making Sligo Creek ES the holding school for Piney Branch, and other eastside ESs needing rebuilding in the future. He proposed that Sligo Creek get a new facility on a very quick schedule, but not in its current neighborhood. Add to this that he has proposed SSIMS' closing.

This is a mess of Taylor's making. He is causing problems, not solving them.[/quote]

Well closing a Silver Spring school to be a holding school for a Takoma Park school is not a great look either.

Stewart was likely to be a one-term board member if she didn't take a stand on this- people are pretty pissed, not just SSIMS/SCES parents but Sligo and Eastern parents too.[/quote]

Agreed. This is absolutely a loss for Taylor, and a win for families who were blindsided with school closure out of the clear blue sky, literally in between boundary revision options.

It's honestly also a loss for the PBES parent community, who as a group behaved terribly during this process. I'm not a TkPk hater, but their concerted advocacy to screw over a much needier school so that they could have a short commute and retain their swimming pool was gross. I think it points to overall demographic shift in Takoma Park from folks who are community-minded to folks who would otherwise live in Bethesda but got priced out. [/quote]

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