I’m not for diversity busing, but redistributing is a good idea. Just because folks buy a house for certain school doesn’t mean they are guaranteed to go to said schools. The district is supposed to be good stewards of the resources. This means that in order to balance school utilization redrawing boundaries is required. And these should be looked at more than just when new schools are built. They should absolutely be looked at as a mechanism to relieve overcrowding. |
"Diversity busing" is not a thing, o Poster from 2020. |
Then you should be pleased to know you don't need busing to fix many of the gerrymandered boundaries and improve diversity. Presently, there are kids who literally live across the street from Einstein being bussed to WJ or schools like Wootton, where the vast majority of the in-boundary students live closer to another HS because its boundary makes no sense. There are so many things wrong with these boundaries, which haven't been updated for 40 years. Imagine how much $$$ could be saved on transportation simply by doing a better job mapping students to their closest school, and with some minor adjustments I'm certain it would be easy to improve the SES diversity of these schools too. |
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Having lived through diversity busing in Delaware that Biden got a ton of flak voting against, it was a nightmare disaster for the entire school system. School quality went down everywhere in Delaware (why do you think property values are so low in Delaware even though it has prime real estate location on the East Coast)? Kids would have to sit on the buses for hours and get up at like 6 AM just to get to school on time. It ruined sports teams. It ruined walk ability. It caused tons more traffic and lots more pollution. Schools that were once black and black run were also completely gutted and ruined. Many black residents to this day in Wilmington complain about it.
Busing seems nice on paper, until you actually live with it. The waste of fuel and increase in pollution rather than have kids walk and bike to school is stupid. Our kids are already fat enough as it is, so they should be walking to school anyway. |
No, there aren't. |
If you want to increase walking to school, there are two things you should encourage that have nothing to do with school boundary decisions: 1. less parent taxi service 2. safer routes to school, so that MCPS doesn't have to bus kids who live in walking distance |
Ok, but that has nothing to do with diversity busing that some people want. They're talking about busing kids all the way over from areas like silver spring to BCC etc. to increase diversity. You'll never be able to walk that no matter what kind of trails you make. In Delaware, they were busing kids 5, 10, 20+ miles to increase diversity. It ruined everything and just polluted the environment a lot more with they many more diesel burning school busses on the road for no reason. |
Say what? Kids from Silver Spring already attend B-CC. It's been that way for at least 40 years. Some of that Silver Spring area is even within the high school walking distance (2.0 miles) of B-CC. https://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/BCCHS.pdf |
Just please don't lock the bathrooms. Some kids just want to use the toilet for bodily functions even if there are bad smells, drug deals, etc. If you need to go, you need to go
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Yep. But as much as I would love to blame the Boe, this isn't their fault. It's the fault of county leadership. We can at least try sprinkling some non Uber progressives in next vote. |
This. Parents threaten teachers and admin with legal action whenever their kids are held accountable, so now our county is run by lawyers bent on avoiding lawsuits. |
It really doesn't matter if kids have done something illegal. It's a matter for the police. It's not an MCPS issue. Charges can be pressed. If they didn't break the law then you're just blowing hot air and none of this matters. |
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So Virginia school districts are dealing with this too, but the difference is they seem more serious about punishment and law enforcement. Culpepper County police charged a student for distributing on school grounds: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/culpeper-students-charged-after-17-year-old-revived-with-narcan-at-school-sheriff/3267436/
MoCo Police, why aren't you doing the same? These low-level distributors are a key part of the fentanyl supply chain that needs to be stopped. |
That's probably because there are no schools inside the beltway near silver spring other than BCC. |
I don't know anything about that, but these are matters for the police. Some posters complain there aren't consequences but we have laws on the books that cover these issues. If you're aware that laws are being broken out of school, call the cops. |