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[quote=Anonymous]It seems like there is increasing pressure on MCPS to slow down a year-- from County Council today, the MCCPTA resolution, and others-- but MCPS just keeps saying "we can't, it has to be at the same time as the boundary changes."  I'm trying to figure out what they mean by that and if it holds any water, or if we can debunk it to strengthen the argument that they shouldn't be rushing this through this year.

I get that in theory programs affect utilization which affects boundaries.  But 1) if all schools have a couple programs, then in theory the transfers should more or less cancel eachother out and utilization will be pretty close to the same either way, and 2) to the extent that the reality is likely to be significantly different than that (due to some programs being more popular than others and some schools sending more kids to certain programs than others) there is basically no way to figure that out until kids start applying to and accepting spots in programs anyway, so launching it at the same time as the boundary changes rather than a year later doesn't bring any added value (it probably should have been launched a year *before* the boundary changes if they really wanted it to inform utilization.)  Am I missing something or does that seem right to others too?

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