MCPS message: Submit or we will wreck your children's schools

"The threat to close Seven Locks is astonishing," said Diana Conway, a Potomac Elementary School PTA member, at the school board meeting.

The Almanac quotes her as saying, "It is also a shot across the bow of all communities in the county: Yield to the Board of Education or we will shut down your schools and add to your portables and crowding."