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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 --[b] they[/b] 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]

Who's "they"?  I don't ever remember this being brought up as a concern before.  This reason seems to be completely made up by Taylor.

It's really infuriating that our kids are going to have to pay for MCPS' continued mismanagement and incompetence.  They should have fixed SSIMS long ago, but they need to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to do it now.[/quote]

The Purple Line excuse is pure gaslighting. The proximity of a station to a school came up years ago in PL meetings and was deemed to not be a safety issue. He is using the poor condition of the school (which is entirely MCPS's fault) and the new PL stop as excuses to get what he needs: a holding school to stagger other school renovations. It is terribly unfair that this neighborhood loses its community school so others can have nicer facilities. Now, DTSS, an already congested and urban neighborhood, will have busses coming in to take out of bounds kids to the holding school and busses going out to take neighborhood kids to Sligo or Eastern -- kids who previously could have walked to school. I hope the neighborhood and school communities come together to ardently oppose this.  It is not a done deal yet and can be stopped. [/quote]

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