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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 3 reasons:

1) The facility condition and the cost to address the long-standing problems associated with a very old and neglected facility.  They've been avoiding this since the 90s when they decided to reopen the then-moving Blair HS as a combined ES (Sligo Creek ES) and MS (SSIMS) in one building, where they reconditioned, to a degree, the third that became SCES but did the absolute minimum reconditioning on the SSIMS side.  They will have to do [i]some[/i] work to make it habitable as a holding facility, but not as much as they [i]should have done[/i] (long ago, and should be doing now) for the local school.

2) The Purple Line -- they don't want combo ES & MS kids in direct proximity for a variety of safety considerations.  As a secondary-level holding school, there would be no walkers, and that seems to be enough of a safety mitigator for them.

3) The only secondary-level facility they have is Woodward, and that's going to be its own school shortly.  They need a place to put an entire HS when that ends up under construction, and the combination of SSIMS and SCES, with some build-out but compromising some HS facility provisions (e.g., no real auditorium beyond the gym, limited athletics, etc.), is what they see as their best option.[/quote]

Considering the next three HS projects will be mid and upcounty (wootton, magruder, damascus), why not have Crown be a holding school. That also has the benefit of kicking the can down the road for the boundaries until the development in that area is more complete.

The last board and McKnight messed up with the boundary study by  not having it be All levels and all county. These half baked proposals are just going to keep us spiraling.[/quote]

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