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We don't need to move 7300 students to fix overcrowding.  Move the minimum number of students to fix overcrowding.  Do the big "equity fixing" in 2023 so some families don't have to keep switching.

This redistricting pushes a lot of students westward because that's where the capacity is.  Opening a new school is going to pull some students back eastward because that's where the new high school is.

You think pulling families back and forth is good for the families?  3 major redistrictings in 5 years is too much.[/quote]

The situation two years from now is not going to be the same as the situation now.  Familes are not going to be pulled back east.  There are thousands of residential units in the pipeline, many of them high density units in the eastern/southeastern part of the county. With capacity already severely strained, there will be no way to accomodate the new units unless some of the population is pushed to the west.

In addition, the new development is largely moderate to lower income. The county has decided that this development is necessary, and the expanded tax base benefits the entire county. Given that the entire county benefits, why should only certain areas have to bear the burden of development?

I understand the outcry, and certainly concur that better planning should have been done. I also question if the economic benefit of all of this development outweighs the infrastructure improvements that are needed to support it (but largely not being made)

But putting the debate about governmental development policies aside, the only thing HCPSS can do is address the population before them.

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A very easy solution is to move any new developments to the under crowded schools.  If they want to continue building more and more without new schools, then just send the new developments to the districts with the lowest capacity.  If they are already moving kids all over, just move the kids that don't have roots yet.  [/quote]

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