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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the person who asked on the previous page what is going on--what decision has been made and why people are upset. I am trying to piece it together from your answers, but am struggling. It sounds like wootton is a long-existing high school that is in serious disrepair. The community there asked for help. The county put off repairing it, and now, in the recent boundary study, decided to close that school building entirely and send the kids who would have gone there to an existing school in Gaithersburg. Is that correct?[/quote]

You have the essential facts there. I think the deep feelings protesting the removal of Wootton to Crown HS speaks to the organic community attachment we have for our neighborhood schools. We see this in Silver Spring, with the likely closure of SSIMS and the likely moving of Sligo Creek ES. People don't want holding schools in their neighborhoods, they want their local community to have use of the schools.

I really can't blame anyone for feeling this way.[/quote]

That’s precisely it. MCPS is doing very shady things with SSIMS. They didn’t succeed in closing SSIMS so now they are going the de facto closure route. Through the boundary study, they have artificially made SSIMS severely under utilized. During the next es/ms study, they will then use that underutilization and building condition (both of which issues they intentionally created themselves) to justify closing SSIMS.

Even if you have no dog in the Wootton fight, this should be a warning. MCPS will intentionally create problems and conditions to justify their intended goal. The ends always justify the means with them.

SSIMS families see this happening right in front of their eyes. A lot more other folks will be blindsided during es/ms closure. By the time they realize, it’ll be too late. [/quote]

I don’t understand the conspiratorial tone - I too believe MCPS is about to close some es/ms sites but that’s mostly because…they keep saying they’re about to close some es/ms sites.  [/quote]

+1. This is a sensible initiative, given the continuing decline in overall enrollment. We just don't need to operate as many schools as we used to.[/quote]

Why are 10,000 students still in portables?[/quote]

Where did you get this statistic? I would believe that 10,000 out of the 156,000 kids in MCPS spend some part of the day (maybe as little as one period) in a portable, but not that 10,000 students are in portables all day.

Boundary revisions, a new high school, and expansion of other high schools -- all of these things should let most schools get rid of portable classrooms. [/quote]

Never going to happen.  MCPS planning stinks and has for 50 years.  That’s how long portables have been in use. [/quote]

What is "never going to happen?" The new high schools? They are already built or almost built. Your cynicism is tiring. [/quote]

There are currently 120 portables at high schools all over the county.  A new high school isn’t going to touch the countywide overcrowding.

What’s tiring is 50 years of portables in use with multiple boundary changes and new schools and additions. [/quote]

Two new high schools and reduction in students will. [/quote]

Not even close.[/quote]

Look at the number trends.[/quote]

Not PP. I’ve been looking at the ES enrollment numbers in the past few days to get an idea of what closures may come and they look BAD. So many declining ES populations.

Looking at RM was particularly shocking. College Gardens and Beall look not well off and Ritchie Park surely too once they eliminate that island of Fallgrove.

This next ES study is gonna be like the true dynamite if we thought the HS one was big…[/quote]

Portables will still be in parking lots.  [/quote]

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