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Not to sound like a broken record but to reiterate, the Board of Education recommended that the 5th elementary school in this cluster be built by 2015, so construction would have had to begun by 2013. What happened was that the County Council voted to delay the funding for construction until 2015 with completion by 2017. Meanwhile, they approved funding for BFES, Wayside, Candlewood and possibly others (these are the only three I've seen) even though these were under enrolled.

Someone also said that decisions about school construction are made years in advance. That's true. But if the projections on population are wrong---and they are wrong and that can be seen years in advance---then there should be some flexibility to address that. Some may disagree, but I don't think a county that believes its schools are the best in the nation should have campuses that resemble a trailer park more than a school playground.  [/quote]

I'm guessing that MCPS has provided reasons for why Beverly Farms, Wayside, and Candlewood are (were?) on the list. What are those reasons? For example, Wayside was built in 1969 and has never been modernized. Candlewood was built in 1968 and has never been modernized. Maybe MCPS thinks that modernization of 40+-year-old buildings, even if they're below capacity, is a higher priority than building new schools/wings for schools that are over capacity in modern/modernized buildings? If so, that makes sense to me, from a facilities management point of view.[/quote]

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