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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]

But you can't just up and reopen Lynbrook ES *now*. You'd basically have to tear it down and build a whole new school. So that's $25-30 million. Which would have to come out of the MCPS capital budget, just like all of the other capital needs.

It's not bureaucratic sluggishness, it's lack of $$$.[/quote]

And time. Even if you had the money, it would take several years to do this. [/quote]

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