Anonymous
09/13/2025 22:07
Subject: Silver Spring International
SSIMS and Sligo Creek ES, which inhabits the same decrepit building, need to be rebuilt. Period.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 21:56
Subject: Silver Spring International
Anonymous wrote:Is the never ending purple line construction finally finished in that part of town?
Nope, not finished.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 19:13
Subject: Silver Spring International
Is the never ending purple line construction finally finished in that part of town?
Anonymous
08/10/2025 19:02
Subject: Silver Spring International
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Stupid question, why don't they just tear down the structure and build a more modern one? Many area schools have been completely rebuilt. Recent one was Woodlin ES in Silver Spring. Do they only focus on ES, until overcrowding becomes an issue at a MS or HS - such as a new HS that will be near Walter Johnson HS in North (!) Bethesda/Rockville.
They don't really need to, as far as I understand. The bones of the building are fine. It's just sort of the wrong size and shape for a middle school and there was a plan to do a comprehensive fix that would have also relocated the elementary school that is co-located with the middle school right now.
However, belt tightening made the project smaller, and a botched rollout of the elementary school relocation panicked a bunch of families, so the plan got scratched and a smaller renovation is underway.
Is the "smaller" renovation now also not happening? And is Highland View also not getting a renovation?
The SSIMS gym project has happened, but the other parts are on hold and will be decided in the next CIP, same as Highland View.
Anonymous
08/10/2025 18:37
Subject: Silver Spring International
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Stupid question, why don't they just tear down the structure and build a more modern one? Many area schools have been completely rebuilt. Recent one was Woodlin ES in Silver Spring. Do they only focus on ES, until overcrowding becomes an issue at a MS or HS - such as a new HS that will be near Walter Johnson HS in North (!) Bethesda/Rockville.
They don't really need to, as far as I understand. The bones of the building are fine. It's just sort of the wrong size and shape for a middle school and there was a plan to do a comprehensive fix that would have also relocated the elementary school that is co-located with the middle school right now.
However, belt tightening made the project smaller, and a botched rollout of the elementary school relocation panicked a bunch of families, so the plan got scratched and a smaller renovation is underway.
Is the "smaller" renovation now also not happening? And is Highland View also not getting a renovation?
Anonymous
11/30/2024 08:30
Subject: Re:Silver Spring International
Anonymous wrote:I get that there will be plenty of long-term benefit to having the school building itself improved. The purple line is debatable (a public transit station literally right outside a middle school that already has bus service anyway?), but what's done is done. I just don't want my kid to have to inhabit a construction site for their. entire. middle. school. career. MSMC, here we come.
Okay. That's your opinion. Have you actually tried taking that bus? Do you live in the neighborhood. I have and I do. The purple line when it opens will be a huge time saver, a lot more reliable than the bus.
Anonymous
11/28/2024 11:08
Subject: Re:Silver Spring International
See here:
Anonymous
11/28/2024 10:03
Subject: Silver Spring International
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the old Blair auditorium was demolished during the renovation. Wondering if it’s still around. That’s a nice piece of history
It was demolished. They’re building a new gym in its place.
Anonymous
11/28/2024 02:58
Subject: Silver Spring International
Does anyone know if the old Blair auditorium was demolished during the renovation. Wondering if it’s still around. That’s a nice piece of history
Anonymous
11/20/2024 17:02
Subject: Re:Silver Spring International
I get that there will be plenty of long-term benefit to having the school building itself improved. The purple line is debatable (a public transit station literally right outside a middle school that already has bus service anyway?), but what's done is done. I just don't want my kid to have to inhabit a construction site for their. entire. middle. school. career. MSMC, here we come.
Anonymous
11/20/2024 10:04
Subject: Silver Spring International
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When are they ever going to finish construction in that area what a mess?!
The school construction will be finished by the summer. But who knows when the purple line will be done.
It's called PL 2040. But it's not even funny anymore.
Anonymous
11/19/2024 19:29
Subject: Silver Spring International
Anonymous wrote:When are they ever going to finish construction in that area what a mess?!
The school construction will be finished by the summer. But who knows when the purple line will be done.