Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"No one is blaming Whitman or Churchill. I used them as an example of schools that when parents snap their fingers the BOE acts. Example; When Churchill was scheduled for renovation the parents flat out refused to have their children moved to the holding school (Northwood) for fear of having them rubbing shoulders with the common folk in Wheaton. So the renovation went on with the students in the building while the holding school sat empty. Northwood was good enough for Sherwood whose students had to travel about 20 miles to attend school for two years but not good enough for the elite Churchill people."

You're apparently in need of a GPS. Sure Churchill itself sits about 10 miles from Northwood, but it's at least 15, if not 20, miles from most of Potomac to Northwood HS, and much of that is on the Capital Beltway. That's what every parent wants, their child on a bus inching along the Beltway for an hour in the morning rush. It's only 11 miles form Olney to Northwood, and that's on GA Ave., no Beltway needed. So before you make snarky assumptions about the motivations of the Churchill parents, I suggest you do a little bit of research. Otherwise you look like a fool.

Since you want to deflect the issue by nit picking over mileage and insulting me let me call your attention to the fact that Sherwood is located in Sandy Spring and not Olney. Perhaps you need a better GPS. Some students live in Brinklow, Brookeville, and Tridelphia.

You sidestepped the truth that Churchill parents refused to allow their children to be taken out of the their school while every single high school renovation before that used Northwood. Is there any doubt that they used their political clout to pressure the BOE?

The real issue here is the decrepit condition of Poolesville High School. It was built sixty years ago and had a minor renovation in 1978. The corridors are as wide was you might see in an elementary school. There is exposed wiring, mold, ceiling tiles missing, and the other defects that you can see on the video. This would never be tolerated in Potomac or Bethesda.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"No one is blaming Whitman or Churchill. I used them as an example of schools that when parents snap their fingers the BOE acts. Example; When Churchill was scheduled for renovation the parents flat out refused to have their children moved to the holding school (Northwood) for fear of having them rubbing shoulders with the common folk in Wheaton. So the renovation went on with the students in the building while the holding school sat empty. Northwood was good enough for Sherwood whose students had to travel about 20 miles to attend school for two years but not good enough for the elite Churchill people."

You're apparently in need of a GPS. Sure Churchill itself sits about 10 miles from Northwood, but it's at least 15, if not 20, miles from most of Potomac to Northwood HS, and much of that is on the Capital Beltway. That's what every parent wants, their child on a bus inching along the Beltway for an hour in the morning rush. It's only 11 miles form Olney to Northwood, and that's on GA Ave., no Beltway needed. So before you make snarky assumptions about the motivations of the Churchill parents, I suggest you do a little bit of research. Otherwise you look like a fool.

Since you want to deflect the issue by nit picking over mileage and insulting me let me call your attention to the fact that Sherwood is located in Sandy Spring and not Olney. Perhaps you need a better GPS. Some students live in Brinklow, Brookeville, and Tridelphia.

You sidestepped the truth that Churchill parents refused to allow their children to be taken out of the their school while every single high school renovation before that used Northwood. Is there any doubt that they used their political clout to pressure the BOE?

The real issue here is the decrepit condition of Poolesville High School. It was built sixty years ago and had a minor renovation in 1978. The corridors are as wide was you might see in an elementary school. There is exposed wiring, mold, ceiling tiles missing, and the other defects that you can see on the video. This would never be tolerated in Potomac or Bethesda.

Anonymous wrote:"No one is blaming Whitman or Churchill. I used them as an example of schools that when parents snap their fingers the BOE acts. Example; When Churchill was scheduled for renovation the parents flat out refused to have their children moved to the holding school (Northwood) for fear of having them rubbing shoulders with the common folk in Wheaton. So the renovation went on with the students in the building while the holding school sat empty. Northwood was good enough for Sherwood whose students had to travel about 20 miles to attend school for two years but not good enough for the elite Churchill people."

You're apparently in need of a GPS. Sure Churchill itself sits about 10 miles from Northwood, but it's at least 15, if not 20, miles from most of Potomac to Northwood HS, and much of that is on the Capital Beltway. That's what every parent wants, their child on a bus inching along the Beltway for an hour in the morning rush. It's only 11 miles form Olney to Northwood, and that's on GA Ave., no Beltway needed. So before you make snarky assumptions about the motivations of the Churchill parents, I suggest you do a little bit of research. Otherwise you look like a fool.

Anonymous wrote:"No one is blaming Whitman or Churchill. I used them as an example of schools that when parents snap their fingers the BOE acts. Example; When Churchill was scheduled for renovation the parents flat out refused to have their children moved to the holding school (Northwood) for fear of having them rubbing shoulders with the common folk in Wheaton. So the renovation went on with the students in the building while the holding school sat empty. Northwood was good enough for Sherwood whose students had to travel about 20 miles to attend school for two years but not good enough for the elite Churchill people."

You're apparently in need of a GPS. Sure Churchill itself sits about 10 miles from Northwood, but it's at least 15, if not 20, miles from most of Potomac to Northwood HS, and much of that is on the Capital Beltway. That's what every parent wants, their child on a bus inching along the Beltway for an hour in the morning rush. It's only 11 miles form Olney to Northwood, and that's on GA Ave., no Beltway needed. So before you make snarky assumptions about the motivations of the Churchill parents, I suggest you do a little bit of research. Otherwise you look like a fool.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh? My DC plays 2 MCPS sports at one of the schools you mention and never once have they changed in a locker room. Our kids arrive dressed, the other team arrives dressed, you play and you go home. There are spartan bathrooms in the stadium field. No worse or better than other schools I've been to in the county (except for the sports palaces at WJ and RM, which were paid for by soccer clubs).

Did you bother watching the tape? They do have PE classes there you know. This is the school. Not some stadium bathroom. The lockers are made for ten year olds, there is mold everywhere, and the showers haven't worked for years. The school is falling down on top of kids. If these conditions existed on the west side of the county at one of the W schools the parents would be in an uproar. RM and WJ have nothing to do with this. Those are turf fields not turf schools.

Yes I watched it and agree that the building needs improvements. I just don't understand why you are blaming Whitman and Churchill for this (both of which are about 150 students over capacity this year, while Poolesville, at least, is not). And I reacted to the thing that you highlighted which is lack of visiting team changing rooms. I haven't seen this in any of the county schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Huh? My DC plays 2 MCPS sports at one of the schools you mention and never once have they changed in a locker room. Our kids arrive dressed, the other team arrives dressed, you play and you go home. There are spartan bathrooms in the stadium field. No worse or better than other schools I've been to in the county (except for the sports palaces at WJ and RM, which were paid for by soccer clubs).

Did you bother watching the tape? They do have PE classes there you know. This is the school. Not some stadium bathroom. The lockers are made for ten year olds, there is mold everywhere, and the showers haven't worked for years. The school is falling down on top of kids. If these conditions existed on the west side of the county at one of the W schools the parents would be in an uproar. RM and WJ have nothing to do with this. Those are turf fields not turf schools.

Anonymous wrote:Huh? My DC plays 2 MCPS sports at one of the schools you mention and never once have they changed in a locker room. Our kids arrive dressed, the other team arrives dressed, you play and you go home. There are spartan bathrooms in the stadium field. No worse or better than other schools I've been to in the county (except for the sports palaces at WJ and RM, which were paid for by soccer clubs).