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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Call it an educated guess.[/quote]
I’m interested how you would presume (or is that assume?) to know what the BOE will do when the BOE has not said what they will do. [b]I would also be interested to understand your rationale for why they are paying for design and renderings for Phase 2, which represents all of the spaces for the performing arts magnet, if they don’t plan to open a performing arts magnet. Why would MCPS waste this time and money? [/b]

And my last question, if they fill up WJ and Woodward to capacity with DCC students, where will the students generated from all of these developments people keep mentioning go to school? Particularly since most of these developments are within the walk zone of both schools?[/quote]

You have revealed ypur ignorance.  MCPS does tons of site selection studies, capacity studies, and designs, that go nowhere.

Just in my cluster in the past 7 years, and just what I know of: TWO WJ/ES site selection studies.  WJ Study Group.  WJ Round Table. WJ ES capacity study.  WJ/BCC ES site selection.. 
WJ/BCC capacity study.  Not to mention the THREE actual designs to take WJ to 3500 which the community promptly rejected.

MCPS wastes money on studies and designs All.  The.  Time.[/quote]

When these schools are replaced or expand  they need to make them much larger if they will not open new ones.   3000 students is absurd. [/quote]

Their is an individual who is very AGGRESSIVE with planting the idea that MCPS is creating a performing arts school. Not only has this happened before and failed but people don’t understand how expensive the performing arts can be.

No one has factor in the facility who will be apart of this theoretical program. Performing arts teachers with masters in their crafts are EXPENSIVE, supplies for the arts is EXPENSIVE, THE PERFORMING ARTS ARE EXPENSIVE. They’re not only expensive but a lot of parents view them as pointless. Look at the Visual Art Center, the oldest magnet program in the county and has been constantly threatened with budget cuts despite only having 2 teachers. They don’t even provide transportation.

Also, other arts programs in schools are being cut in MCPS. Why should MCPS fund a performing arts program but I’m fighting for my DC school choir program not to be cut? That’s not fair.

Lastly, where is the funds going to come from? Schools like Baltimore School of the Arts and Duke Ellington get funding from private donors and fight every year not to be cut. At this point, they’re only still opened because their historical monuments that are part of their cities. I don’t know about a program that’s just been launch and how long it will last before MCPS starts to cut some things.

The school could be like Loiderman’s program (messily put together) but what’s the point? I say make Einstein or Blake (Schools with an establish PA programs) countywide and be done with it.[/quote]

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