We need to accept that Montgomery County has had a huge influx in population. Developers are building more and more housing units, there is a push to urbanize a large part of the County and the county will just get more and more overcrowded as the years go by.

There is no end in sight. This is just one side effect of the rampant, uncontrolled growth in MoCo. Developers are profiting and our kids are losing out.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is not planning to build schools without auditoriums. They are DELAYING the build to a later phase and not FUNDING the construction of said auditoriums with this fiscal year’s budget.

You can be skeptical that it will be funded in future years, but that is just skepticism.

Yes, this. They are staging the projects in phases due to the capital budget situation. They have every intention of building the auditoriums.

I guess due to budget constraints, the phase 3 could be another 10 years

Exactly, or even more.

Anonymous wrote:What sucks about delaying it at Woodward is that means Northwood (who will use it as a holding school for 3 years) won't have an auditorium and they have a magnet performing arts program. I feel bad for those students.

An academy, not a magnet

What sucks about delaying it at Woodward is that means Northwood (who will use it as a holding school for 3 years) won't have an auditorium and they have a magnet performing arts program. I feel bad for those students.

Anonymous wrote:They could always borrow auditoriums from nearby high schools. It stinks for the kids who would use it but it’s not the end of the world.

+1. They said at the meeting they could also make arrangements to use private auditoriums or other large spaces in the area. And yes that will be an inconvenience but it will be a short term workaround.

Anonymous wrote:There has been talk of a performing arts magnet at Woodward. How will that happen without an auditorium?

There will be an auditorium, just not as soon as people want. There *may* be a performing arts magnet.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is not planning to build schools without auditoriums. They are DELAYING the build to a later phase and not FUNDING the construction of said auditoriums with this fiscal year’s budget.

You can be skeptical that it will be funded in future years, but that is just skepticism.

Yes, this. They are staging the projects in phases due to the capital budget situation. They have every intention of building the auditoriums.

I guess due to budget constraints, the phase 3 could be another 10 years

There's no reason to expect that. At the board meeting yesterday, they were talking about a one or two year delay.

Which means students will go to high school without an auditorium. Future construction is meaningless to current students.

The plan all along for the Northwood students has been to be at the Woodward holding school with no auditorium. That's been known to be the case for years now, and somehow people could accept that.

They could always borrow auditoriums from nearby high schools. It stinks for the kids who would use it but it’s not the end of the world.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is not planning to build schools without auditoriums. They are DELAYING the build to a later phase and not FUNDING the construction of said auditoriums with this fiscal year’s budget.

You can be skeptical that it will be funded in future years, but that is just skepticism.

Yes, this. They are staging the projects in phases due to the capital budget situation. They have every intention of building the auditoriums.

I guess due to budget constraints, the phase 3 could be another 10 years

There's no reason to expect that. At the board meeting yesterday, they were talking about a one or two year delay.

Which means students will go to high school without an auditorium. Future construction is meaningless to current students.

Crown and Woodward will get auditoriums. Kindly suggest redirecting your concern to emails to BOE, individually.

There has been talk of a performing arts magnet at Woodward. How will that happen without an auditorium?

When magruder had the band room’s asbestos removed we would have band practice in the auditorium . Can’t imagine any other place besides the gym it could have happened in.

Direct your advocacy to Elrich and the county council. They control the money.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is not planning to build schools without auditoriums. They are DELAYING the build to a later phase and not FUNDING the construction of said auditoriums with this fiscal year’s budget.

You can be skeptical that it will be funded in future years, but that is just skepticism.

Yes, this. They are staging the projects in phases due to the capital budget situation. They have every intention of building the auditoriums.

I guess due to budget constraints, the phase 3 could be another 10 years

There's no reason to expect that. At the board meeting yesterday, they were talking about a one or two year delay.

Who believes that… think about Wootton renovation which is delayed for a decade and still more delays

Apples and oranges

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is not planning to build schools without auditoriums. They are DELAYING the build to a later phase and not FUNDING the construction of said auditoriums with this fiscal year’s budget.

You can be skeptical that it will be funded in future years, but that is just skepticism.

Yes, this. They are staging the projects in phases due to the capital budget situation. They have every intention of building the auditoriums.

I guess due to budget constraints, the phase 3 could be another 10 years

There's no reason to expect that. At the board meeting yesterday, they were talking about a one or two year delay.

Who believes that… think about Wootton renovation which is delayed for a decade and still more delays