"THEY ARE TAKING OUR PARK AWAY!!!"

Here is the announcement of an emergency meeting to be held in the Rosemary Hills-Lyttonsville Park community in response to the surprise decision of a secret site selection "committee" of the Board of Education to turn their neighborhood park into a middle school.  


Questions: Why was the process of selecting this site conducted through secret meetings? Aren't these meetings to discuss the use of public land by a public school system? Why are PTA's participating on secret committees? Why is this a surprise to this community?