Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-02-05
Carver EuIogy

IldNlIlS llNSu III TOChNllle, west
of the railroad, Al years and hav-
ing paid taxes more than "a years,
l feel that may qualify as
West Rockvillian."
/ think the news reporting of
your paper and the comments of
Mr.. Bernstein have usually been
very fair. Mr.. BernStein's con
fusion" is doubtless due to the
fact that my fellow "West Rock
Williams" failed to inform him of
the following facts which l hope
will clarity his bewilderment.
(See Bernstein column in Jan. Is
issue)
On March 26, 1856, the Super
intendents budget contained a
plan to enlarge Carver High
School, at a cost of $451 10000 to
house the students of both Car
yer and Lincoln Schools. This
plan was not adopted.
In 1857 the School Board
adopted a plan, by 4-3 vote, to
convert Carver to a vocational
school. The county manager de-
leted the funds requested by the
School Board for this project
when he passed the budget on to
the County Council.
In 1858, the Superintendent pro-
posed the following plan: an adj
ministration building to cost ST.
100000; an addition to Carver
High School, 100000; total, 3d.
100000.
Carver was to have been con-
verted to an INTEGRATED Jun
ior High School to be completed
September 1859.
In 1859 the following plan is
approved by the School Board:
to convert Carver to an admins
tration building, $1,000,000; new
West Rockville Junior High
School. $1,90O0O0; total, $780,
600. School to be completed 1861.
The difference? A half million
dollars more money and two
years of overcrowded Rockville
Jr. High Schools; plus an addi-
tional half million if the special
equipment at Carver is scrapped.
Total $1,000,000 and an irrecover-
able loss to thousands of junior
high youngsters in the area.
There was no objection to Car
vers location, highways nor any
thing else until an migrated
project was suggested!
There are no dumps near Car
YER as one of your correspond
ents claimed. Highway hazards
could have been eliminated by ex-
tending one or two streets
through West Rockville. There is
enough unoccupied land between
West Rockville Elementary and
Carver High School to build an
education center of which the en-
tire state would be proud, and
the Board of Education already
owns three-fourths of the land
needed.
A building such as Carver can
be converted to an excellent jun
Tor high school, while changing
its class rooms and other special
rooms to office rooms will pro-
duce an administration building
which will be far from ideal. Com
munications to the School Board
from Potomac, Broome, etc. were
all in favor of a junior high
school soon in Rockville"
They did not ask for new
site"
OF course, none of this has
anything to do with 'fntegration."
Who said it did?
] think Mr.. Bernstein was con-
fused" because he could not UNI
derstand why my neighbors were
so proud of their efforts. Neither
can l. hope the County Council
will apply its deletion technique
as heretofore and give the School
Board another chance.
/ cannot agree with those per
sons, Negro or white, who want
TO keep Carver as it is" The
conversion of Carver to an in
tegrated junior high school and
making it a part Of an education