"Move over Emma, here I come. You've had your turn, now it's my turn when naming MCPS schools!" Jeanette Rankin

As I've mentioned, Emma Dickinson School has been closed for many years now. Immediately after the closure and most likely the reason it was closed, it became the building for adult learning classes. Over the years this building being used for adults - not for the area's children as was the purpose for building the school in the first place - the school district has expanded it's classes (and its administration BTW). Do people know that the adult learning center now  has TWO administrators making approximately $80,000/year plus benefits - probably more now!!

So - now the name of Emma Dickinson has been taken off the school building.  No more Emma Dickinson School. I saw a flyer calling it the Dickinson Building. This is so corrupt.

So where does Jeanette Rankin come in. The school district is now building a NEW school up Miller Creek which was called Cold Springs school, which is a school which has been closed.

The district decided to open up bids for a new name for the school in the past few months. Some children decided that a good name for the new school up Miller Creek would be the Jeanette Rankin School. (After the first woman in the Congress and who voted against getting into the Second World War.

So, again, move over Emma. MCPS does not value you or your school. Now they are on to someone new for awhile

NOTE: If you would like to know exactly how a school was approved to be built up Miller Creek soon after the district sold Roosevelt School in 2005 just ask former MCPS Board members, Rosemary Harrison and Drake Lemm and other Trustees. And you could also ask former MCPS superintendent James Clark. All of these people could fill you in on the corruption they were causing during all their property meetings (and behind the scenes, of course).