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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they’ll close Sligo creek and move the French program to another school (if they keep it at all) and disperse neighborhood students to other schools. There’s capacity at ESS and if they build a new HVES there will be plenty of room there. I think the likelihood of a new Sligo creek is very slim, and I think that was true even before the plan was delayed. I think Taylor was trying to trick that community into thinking they’d get a new school but he never really intended to build one. [/quote]

They are planning for more than 700 students at the new SCES, although the unofficial word is they will colocate with a Waldorf School which is leasing an MCPS property. Fabulous. The school district keeps shoving it to Sligo Creek. But in terms of what might be shut down, more likely they would choose not to rebuild HVES, a smaller school.[/quote]

Acorn Hill Waldorf school is *nearby* but it won't be co-loated. Just on the same road. [/quote]

This site was determined too difficult for MCPS to build an elementary school on in just 2018 so I don't know why Taylor all of a sudden thinks he can make one work there now. [/quote]

If they take back the old early elementary building that used to be part of Parkside ES that Acorn Hill Waldorf currently occupies, then there are many more options for construction available to them.

Back in 2019, when they shelved the idea, they said they didn't want to build into the hillside, which is where they said they would have to dp it if they didn't just use the old, inadequate upper Parkside building.  That, and the refusal to consider the whole property, was all to get the community either to take a slap-dash, on-the-cheap reno (echoes of SSIMS/SCES being created, themselves, in the late 90s from the old Blair HS building) with dissolution of the school between that smaller building and already overutilized HVES [i]or[/i] to complain about it enough that MCPS could throw their hands up and say, "We tried!," enabling them to down-scope the whole SSIMS/SCES remediation.  Of course, the latter happened, and they then further downscoped the SSIMS-only part, carving off several million to add size to HVES...a project they then abandoned as too expensive and difficult.

Beware Greeks bearing "gifts."[/quote]

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