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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting article why crown HS has to be built.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/06/09/the-ticking-clock-for-crown-high-school/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKz2FtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmj_dkkdMJzSXZRrew-rKjqI9NwW__-Wamv1ZP7IxQinRH3TQabKa4by4MQc_aem_LyEHls_vtIrIgygDTlDYIw[/quote]

I only read the excerpts from the article and not the actual agreement.

But it doesn't seem to say that Crown can't be used as a holding school, while they renovate existing schools, possibly making them bigger and allowing them to have a bigger area feed into them, which would help with balancing demographics and alleviate some of the overcrowding at other schools.[/quote]

They haven't even identified a need for a HS holding school at all. Many schools can be rebuilt on site without moving students to a holding school. It just wasn't deemed feasible for Northwood, so that's why they're at Woodward now. [/quote]

Wootton can not be rebuilt on site.  They need a holding school.  They barely have any land, there is only one entrance to the school on a very busy 1 lane road and [b]they back up to a middle school with shared land.[/b]  If anything, the new school has to have a smaller footprint (building up) so that they can actually have normal size fields and parking which they don't have compared to all other high schools.  QO has more land and may be able to get away with not have a holding school, but the point is the board never thinks or plans ahead and keeps budget costs in mind.  [/quote]

Has that been explored as an option? Frost has 24.78 acres, which is very large for a middle school in MCPS. (15.5 acres is the standard recommended size.)[/quote]
What are you trying say? Frost has some land but the building is small and old.[/quote]

Perhaps a new HS building could be built on the land between the current buildings, not limited to Wootton's current acreage.[/quote]

That’s a huge slope perfect for sledding but not for building anything. Please go there and take a look before making these stupid suggestions [/quote]

You seem nice[/quote]

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