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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone think the county is actually going to spend millions on buses and bus drivers? When there aren't enough teachers, and classrooms and schools are overcrowded? And for all those who think there are enough empty seats, please do send your children to Poolesville and Damascus, especially if you live down county and are  going against traffic. I'd like my children to walk to school thank you.[/quote]

I'll give you an example where the county does this.

My kid lives 0.7 miles from one Middle School.  Sidewalks all the way, and she could easily walk to school.

She is zoned for a MS 1.8 miles away and takes the bus.

It would make much more sense for my kid to attend the closer MS.  The one we're zoned for is 'better', but it's much more inconvenient, and it requires MCPS to offer a bus.  Plus an activity bus three days a week.[/quote]

My kid lives in part of the DCC that doesn't have a high-school near it anymore. They're bussed to the closest high-school as are the 12345 kids that live in this part of the county. The kids who live across the street from the HS are bussed to another nearby HS because there's no room in the one that's close to them. Their bus ride however is much shorter than the bus ride my kids have. The point is being assigned to the closest HS isn't always the most sensible thing the county can do. It sometimes make more sense to look at the bigger picture.[/quote]

We live in Kensington near Einstein but kids get bussed halfway across the county to Walter Johnson. We love it, but if the BoE rezones us for Einstein[b] our property values will tank[/b]!![/quote]
And this is what it comes down to, really. It's not really about what's best for ALL the kids academically.   Let's be honest here.[/quote]

Of COURSE that's what this is about! These ridiculous dog whistle speeches about busing and not wanting to break up school communities is the biggest bunch of BS I've ever heard. Just be honest about it. [/quote]

And you act like it is a fact that playing musical chairs with school assignments will just help all the kids who still have to go home to these systemic problems.[b] Pretty sure trying to fix social ills though the school system is a farce on both sides[/b] and it is pushed by the people who have nothing to lose getting redistricted and resisted by people with something to lose.  even if you buy that the DCC is ruining kids lives via concentration ghetto poverty, you just going to shift less than 10%-20% of kids even with the most aggressive of plans. I guess you will give up on the 80-90% of kids remaining in the ghetto school and wish the few rich white kids luck who go   [/quote]

+1 million[/quote]

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