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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They'll need at least 3 new or expanded middle schools if they ever expect to move to 6-8 county wide to align with most of the rest of the country.[/quote]

No one wants to move to 6-8

Most of the middle schools are 7-8.

The 6-8 middle schools need to be eliminated so the middle schools are uniformly 7-8.[/quote]
You don't speak for everyone. 6-8 MS provides more opportunities for talented students, whether it be academically, musically, athletically (so weird FCPS doesn't have middle school sports like the rest of the state), etc.

All future CIP planning should emphasize building or expanding middle schools to handle 6-8 rather than adding any capacity to elementary schools.[/quote]

DP.  Totally disagree. Grade 7-8 middle schools have worked fine in FCPS for decades. Renovating aging high schools is far more important than plowing hundreds of millions into middle school expansions to handle another grade.

And Glasgow MS, which is 6-8, has been a mess for a long time. Even though it’s technically not that overcrowded, it’s still chaotic and out of control because there are too many unruly tweens in one location. Why on earth would we want to replicate that elsewhere? [/quote]

Most of the state, much less country, have 6-8 MS. It is by no means developmentally inappropriate.[/quote]

I didn’t say it was developmentally inappropriate.  I said it would be fiscally irresponsible to spend hundreds of millions adding capacity to middle schools built to accommodate two grades, not three. [/quote]

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