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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you teacher's union folks posting about how terrible Steve Austin is are just making me more sure that he is my guy for the BOE.  All this hate is actually fear and that tells me that he is the right man for the job.  Thanks for making my vote easy. [/quote]
? I'm not a "teacher union folk", and I'm not voting for Austin because he doesn't think we should look at adjacent clusters when redrawing boundaries to adjust overcrowding.  He's fine with redrawing boundaries *within* a cluster, but not with neighboring clusters. Why? Because he wants the status quo.

It's much cheaper to redraw boundaries than it is to build new wings or new schools. You'd think a "finance" person would realize this, and someone who is all about fiscal conservatism would push for the more sensible and budget friendly option of redrawing boundaries between overcrowded and under capacity neighboring clusters. But no, that's not what he wants.

And no, BOE is not looking to do cross county busing. That lie just  needs to be put to rest.

Further, some of the current boundaries are NOT considered neighborhood schools.  This was one of the eye opening things I learned from the boundary analysis.  There are pockets of islands everywhere, and some neighborhoods are bused further away rather than going to the true neighborhood school -- look at Potomac Glen as a perfect example.   It makes zero sense to me why this neighborhood goes to Churchill rather than Wootton, or in the future, Crown HS. That is their true neighborhood cluster, not Churchill.  There are neighborhoods that are closer to Churchill than PG is, and yet, those neighborhoods are not zoned for Churchill.   Much of the current boundary makes zero sense from a proximity perspective.

These folks who are for Austin are for keeping the status quo regarding the boundaries, and they are this single issue voter.  That is the anti-thesis of "shaking things up".[/quote]

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