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Personally, my biggest concern is overcrowding. I have been a high school teacher at a very diverse school with many challenges. All of these challenges are made more difficult by overcrowding and the accompanying class sizes. Returning [b]the Silver Lake elementary schools[/b] to neighborhood schools has the dual outcome of giving those neighborhoods local community schools and allowing at least one of them to be moved into the new Woodward district to reduce the size of BCC. [/quote]

What is Silver Lake?[/quote]

Sorry- Silver Creek. Silver Lake is a place near my hometown and I always revert to that in my head. [/quote]

But BCC just got an addition and it's not in urgent need of downsizing. And no one is going to impose a split articulation on Silver Creek - the boundary study was heavily contested and bumping one of the elementaries out of BCC would create a new furor without solving any real problem.

Look, I've had kids at Rosemary Hills and while I liked the school, I'd prefer a single K-5 pattern for simplicity's sake. And I'm not totally sold that the desegregation purpose of Rosemary Hills exists in quite the same way that it did in the 1970s when this arrangement was established. But MCPS has huge capacity & equity issues to address and for the most part the BCC zone is in pretty good shape on both counts. The study of BCC/WJ elementaries actually reinforces the issues raised in the Woodward planning process, which is that WJ and its feeder elementaries are wildly overcrowded. MCPS needs to focus on solving those problems, rather than satisfying some Chevy Chase moms who resent that their kiddos have to go to kindergarten near brown people in Silver Spring.[/quote]

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