The Sentinel: Parent Protests Classroom Trailers

...Cory Siansky, father of two Gaithersburg Elementary students, attended the Board of Education’s meeting on Tuesday to object to the construction plan and to offer alternative solutions.
“We’re wasting money, and you’re putting student safety at risk in the process, and it’s 100 percent avoidable,” Siansky said in his prepared remarks. Noting that nearby Washington Grove Elementary, which also feeds into Gaithersburg High School, was projected to be under-enrolled by 204 students, Siansky proposed Gaithersburg’s fourth and fifth grade classes be transferred to Washington Grove, or boundaries be changed to bring some students from all grades at Gaithersburg Elementary to Washington Grove.  He urged the board to adopt one of these proposals before the start of the new school year...

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