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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all this redrawing the boundaries talk, is there a distance you live from a school where they will not be allowed to change your designated school?  Like if you live on the same block as a school?  If you’re considered a walker and don’t have an assigned bus?  If you live within a half mile?  Or is no one safe?[/quote]

No one is safe.  You can live .20 miles from a school and walk but you are not assigned to that school.  The Horizon Hill neighborhood is still a huge issue because they are zoned to Ritchie Park (bus transportation) a school which is overcapacity while they could be walkers to Cold Spring ES, which is underutilized. If schools were centrally located in their zoned area then this is an easier topic. School boundaries should be looked at as neighborhoods do go through periods of increase and decreases of school aged kids.[/quote]

Ritchie Park is not overcapacity. None of the RM or Wootton elementary schools are overcapacity.[/quote]
..now.. because they had to build a brand new huge ES to get all the ES in RM cluster at capacity.   Meanwhile neighboring Coldspring ES has been under capacity for a very long time. Point being, they could have rezoned parts of RPES neighborhood to Coldspring ES a long time ago prior to building Rustin.  It would've alleviated the overcrowding at RPES years ago.  Coldspring ES has been so under utilized that some parents there were fearful of the ES closing.

MCPS is terrible at planning.   They are finally looking at adjacent clusters for planning purposes, but they should've been doing that all along.  Very poor planning skills.[/quote]

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