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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county screwed up shuttering Brookmont Elementary in the 80's and passing it off to the Waldorf School (not that any of these residential neighborhoods can manage the parking for school events).   The kids in Sumner and Glen Echo Heights lost their school, and went to Wood Acres as a result.   The deal back then was that the kids got to go to Whitman.  Thus the odd equation of kids not attending the neighborhood junior high...

Which shell has your card under it?[/quote]

As a resident of Glen Echo Heights when Brookmont was closed I can assure you there wasn't any "deal that the kids got to go to Whitman".  Sumner and Glen Echo Heights kids were already assigned to Whitman.  The communities were moved from Western Jr High (now Westland) that had split articulation to both Whitman and B-CC to make room for the students from closing Leland Jr HS in the B-CC Cluster.  Sumner and Glen Echo Heights kids, along with Woodacres kids, all who already were assigned to Whitman were reassigned from Western to Pyle for Jr High. I can also assure you the community did not view moving from Western to Pyle as a "deal" either, we were basically told we needed to move out to make room for the Leland students.  The community fought hard to keep Brookmont open but lost the fight as did many communities in the 80's when MCPS closed schools.  But MCPS does not seem particularly interested in re-opening closed neighborhood schools now that enrollment has surged and instead is intent on "mega" schools with as many students as can it physically fit at currently open school sites.[/quote]

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