Reply to Why isn't MCPS redistricting Rachel Carlson

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Why isn't MCPS redistricting Rachel Carlson"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Look at Rachel Carson.  They actually built a school for the development and it is 70% over-capacity.  What about Fallsgrove, King Farm, Rockville Town Center, Crown, all the new high rise condo buildings in Bethesda and the future Science City.  NO schools built for them.  None.  Zero.  The schools built for Clarksburg weren't enough.  Brand new schools overcrowded and spending MORE money getting feasibility studies, additions, new schools etc...  Tons of portables already up there.  Poor planning - tons of money wasting away to now improve the poor projections.

[/quote]

The schools at Clarksburg were never intended to be enough. The Clarksburg Master Plan calls for multiple schools. The capacity at Little Bennett is 673, the capacity at Wims is probably the same since it's basically the same building; and then there's another eventual school site at Cabin Branch. Do you think that MCPS should have built one elementary school in Clarksburg, with a capacity of 2,100, for all of the students who may eventually come?

What's more, of course MCPS hasn't built any schools for Crown or Science City, given that building has just started at Crown, and there will not be any building for years at Science City. [b]MCPS is already several hundred millions dollars short on capital funding to serve the needs of existing students.[/quote][/b]

Well I guess they should stop building until they can remedy that situation, correct?  If they can't handle the amount of kids they currently have, why is the county allowing for the continued building.  Why aren't developers being told "no school, no building."  I bet they have some deep pockets that could help change things.

And sorry but yes, they should be building a school NOW for the Crown development.  There are homes that are moved in, sold and for sale, more being built and it isn't like single couples deciding to have kids in 5yrs are the only ones moving in. Kids are already living there.  By next year school year, 70% of the homes projected to be built will be lived in or sold.  It takes 5yrs minimum to plan and build a school.  They haven't even started planning.  So what is going to happen to those surrounding schools?  Over capacity, portables, awful lunch times, no room for recess.  Then another round of studying for redistricting etc...  It is never ending and never done right.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics