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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not watch the hearing, but recently heard from a neighbor that there is growing advocacy to push for option B.  Is there truth to this and did it come up in the public meeting?  That option would be terrible for our neighborhood- we are walking sitance to Sligo but kids would be sent to SSIMS- I don't know why that was thrown out there as a potential option to begin with.  So overall I was ok with Taylor's recommendation as it relates to our neighborhood.  It's just hard to keep up with the changes and to anticipate what MCPS will throw out there next.  The options for our neighborhood changed pretty drastically from the first to second round and caught a lot of people off guard.[/quote]

There is some push for original Option B with regard to the now Current WJ cluster (sounds mainly like the Farmland/Luxmanor crew at the BOE mtg), not necessarily rest of map (but clearly would send WW back to Wheaton High).[/quote]

Wasn't there someone from Silver Spring who mentioned it too?  Either way, there were definitely SSiMS folks who wanted to increase the number of kids assigned to SSIMS and wanted to go back to one of the original maps, and I can't imagine the Board would choose the option B map for WJ/Wheaton and a totally different map for Silver Spring...[/quote]

The Northwood Cluster Coordinator from MCCPTA testified about SSIMS going down to 55% utilization being an attempt to start the closure without appropriate process and being problematic for the kids who go there at that low utilization.

The options really treat the 2 regions as separate entities and the Board could adopt a different option for region 3 and for region 1 without causing domino effect problems but so far no one seems to be talking about it that way. I think the Board would have to vote to consider a different option and then also vote to adopt it but I’m not sure. I am not a Robert’s Rules of Order aficionado.[/quote]

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