New Middle School Concerns Persist at MCPS Public Meeting

Residents continue to oppose building at Rock Creek Hills site.

Residents of Rock Creek Hills and the Bethesda-Chevy Chase school cluster continued to voice their concerns Wednesday night during the first facility advisory committee meeting for a proposed new middle school. About 60 stakeholders—parents, residents and educators—attended the two-and-a-half hour meeting at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, where they heard from the facilities designer, planner and architect. “To date, this process has some … let’s just say, baggage, with it,” said Dennis Cross, senior facilities designer for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). “Our task is to develop a feasibility study for this site, for this school.”  The “baggage” includes a process residents said lacks transparency, communication and adequate …

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