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The problem isn’t the Principle or the teachers, it’s the number of kids. And it’s not a class size thing; there are just too many kids crammed into a small physical plant. There’s only one lunchroom and gym. You can’t just keep adding classes. The school has at least 100 too many kids now. What most parents who aren’t all up in County politics wonder is this: [b]why don’t they refurbish and reopen Lynbrook?[/b] Half the kids at BE live in East Bethesda. They could all walk to school. If that can’t happen, send some kids to Chevy Chase ES. These of course seem like fartoo practical solutions, so they’ll never happen. [/quote]

As far as I know, this is included in the study of options for Bethesda ES.[/quote]

Great, but my point is, it’s a problem *now*, and while studies are being done, kids are suffering. The bureaucratic sluggishness is a killer. [/quote]

They are balancing needs and priorities across the whole County and it makes the process very slow.  Also, MCPS is moving to bigger and bigger schools at every level to deal with there being more and more kids.  They are not going to open new schools with 450 capacity.  Most of the old closed schools have capacity in the 350-400 range (if they just opened them up as a school without demolishing the old building and putting up a new one) and many are on sites that can't accommodate a 750 capacity ES.  It's a down-side of running a very large system.  If they move one project to the front of the line, other projects get pushed back, etc.[/quote]

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