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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can say they’re separate decisions, but right now the only options that don’t close SSIMS also involve huge shuffling of students to and away from that school. Everyone from the 4 MSs affected should advocate for that to be changed.[/quote]

+1000.

Especially the SSiMS families who were the ones who insisted on postponing the closure decision.  If the majority of the current SSIMS community was desperate to keep SSIMS (I assume they were or else it would have been really selfish of a minority of them to fight this hard to keep it), they should also all band together to make sure they all stay at SSIMS, and none of the rest of us get reassigned there.[/quote]

Rest-of-us poster: apply for a COSA or go private if you are so concerned about your student going to SSIMS. I think what the SSIMS community is hoping for is to keep their community together as well as keeping a school in the neighborhood. Who the hell wants to live next to two permanent holding schools that have health safety issues because the district never properly renovated them.

This community's treatment by MCPS would never fly in west county.[/quote]

I’m not sure who PP is angry at but maybe they’re not actually that familiar with the save our schools folks.[/quote]

This poster is laser focused only on how this proposal—which would affect thousands of kids and many SS communities—would affect just their individual child. This is not about your kid! It’s about east county losing an entire middle school and the creation of the largest middle school in the whole county.

Stop blaming families for advocating to keep their school, and for asking to be treated with some modicum of respect by Taylor rather than completely gaslit and bulldozed over. [/quote]

Nobody's blaming anyone for trying to keep their school.  I think it's great that SSiMS families love their school and want to stay there.

However, if what some people are implying is true-- that this is primarily about SCES families wanting to keep SSIMS for their own kids, but they don't care about their kids' classmates staying at SSiMS and so they don't see the boundaries as part of their "save our schools" fight because *they* will be zoned there no matter what-- that's pretty messed up.

(Or if they're saying it's fine for those other families to be zoned away because they don't want to stay at SSIMS in the first place and the "save our schools" campaign just pretended that the whole SSIMS community desperately wanted to keep SSIMS when it was really only a couple hundred families in the close-in neighborhood, that is also messed up, but in a different way.)[/quote]

Sorry, what?  It’s not enough that we’re fighting to keep our neighborhood schools, fighting against mega middle schools, fighting to stay at SSIMS, needing to somehow advocate for Northwood and regional programming…. We also need to rally to make sure other neighborhoods are zoned correctly?[/quote]

Oof.  Is this seriously the way SCES families think?  That SSIMS is "our neighborhood school" and everyone else who goes there is from "other neighborhoods" whose interests it feels vaguely ridiculous to be asked to care about?  [/quote]

I’m so sorry if my wording was clumsy, but my point was very much that there is so much going on that we are being asked to pay attention and advocate for.  It is too much.[/quote]

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