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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren't there other capital projects that have been delayed for over a decade? Is the auditorium more important?[/quote]

Do you have HS students?  Ones who perform in school plays or musicals?  Ones who play an instrument in the band or orchestra? Ones who sing in a chorus? Do you participate in grade-level meetings for parents?  All of these and more take place in the auditorium that every other HS in the county has.  This is about access and equity, and yes, it's more important than other capital projects, because you don't build 97% of a new HS, you build 100%[/quote]

Woodward, rebuilt ahead of  multiple other capital projects that were on the list for rebuilding first. Take your 97% of a school and be grateful. [/quote]
The perennial MCPS Capital projects problem: Overcrowded schools get funded before schools that aren't overcrowded.[/quote]

The DCC schools were overcrowded before WJ. It's just that westside parents have more influence so you went to the front of the line.[/quote]

Please stop all this east side/west side stuff. Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.[/quote]

This is pretty disingenuous when you are asking for advocacy for an auditorium and other communities are advocating for space to relieve overcrowding in school or to fix mold or provide ADA accommodation.

Make the case for why this auditorium is more important than all those other needs and more important Thant what the council is already proposing.[/quote]

DP. Why is it disingenuous? If Northwood families don't advocate for themselves, who will advocate for them?[/quote]

Because it said “Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.”  The reality is that no one in another cluster or another school for that matter is an interested party in getting the auditorium.  Particular if it means that other equally or more needed projects continue to get delayed[/quote]

Any of the clusters included in the Woodward study might have an interest.[/quote]

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