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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the meeting tonight, there's a poster on Students Not Assigned To Closest School -

ES: 37% of students in MCPS do not attend their closest school
MS: 45% of students in MCPS do not attend their closest school
HS: 38% of students in MCPS do not attend their closest school

That's CURRENTLY in MCPS.

Those are the boundaries that people want to maintain because they want "neighborhood schools."[/quote]
How is this even possible? I call BS.
Kids who are bussed away from their closest school are special ed and magnet students, I'll give you that, but, looking at our catchment area, there's no way almost half of my child's middle school schoolmates live closer to another middle school. No way.
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It's not nearly as alarming as it sounds.  For example, Westland Middle School isn't actually in its own catchment area - it is in Pyle's.  In other words, a kid who lives next door to Westland goes to Pyle.  Less dramatic examples exist all over the place, where kids who live on the border of one catchment ares are actually closer to a school different than the one to which they are assigned.  It's a combination of where there was space to build schools at the time they were build and boundary adjustments over time.  [/quote]

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