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[quote=Anonymous][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]

"Safe" :roll:

Here's a helpful guide...

If you live 0.20 miles from School X, but you are assigned to School Y, then you ARE NOT a walker to School X.
If you live 0.20 miles from School X, and you are assigned to School X, but you get bus service, then you ARE NOT a walker to School X.
If you live 0.20 miles from School X, and you are assigned to School X, and you are in School X's walk zone, then you ARE a walker to School X.

Posters seem to be having trouble understanding these ideas, and I don't understand why.[/quote]

Technically correct but it's unusual for anyone to live 0.20 miles from a school they're assigned and get bus service. Sure maybe 1% do because the school happens to be on the other side of the beltway but that's about it.[/quote]

It's less unusual than you might think, and it's not because it's on the other side of the Beltway. There are schools where MCPS buses students literally across the street. I know they do at Rachel Carson (Darnestown), Fields Road (Muddy Branch), Matsunaga (Richter Farm), Clarksburg (Stringtown), Little Bennett (Clarksburg). That's just in the upcounty.[/quote]

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