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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren't there places where the nearest high school is over four miles away?[/quote]

That is an exception. I meant a general rule. I just do not like busing a long distance as a tool for balancing FARMS.[/quote]

Np I disagree. I don’t think they should let any school get over 15-20% farms.

In my neighborhood there are two elementary schools 1 mile apart. One has only 1m+ sfhs and a few townhouses. The other has 1m homes and then a new apartment complex was built. It’s now 60% farms. I think there would be a massive benefit in balancing the schools. Only the sfhs are within walking distance to both schools. The apartments are already bused from a mile away. [/quote]

What a fantastic example of how out of touch some people on the wealthier side of the county are. “I don’t think they should let any school get over 15-20% FARMS.” And also, we should let them eat cake!

Here in reality, 44% of the students in the county are eligible for FARMS. [/quote]

If the county is 44% FARMS, they should mandate that every school have 44% FARMs. Instead of having one school be 80% FARM and one be 10%. [/quote]

I'd like to see some conceptual school boundaries based on this goal, because my guess is that they would be pretty ridiculous and require way longer bus rides than even its proponents realize.  Because most of the schools with 10% FARMS are not adjacent to schools with 80% FARMS.  There are other schools in the middle, many of which hover around the mean MCPS rates.  There's a reason that no one is seriously proposing this outside of an anonymous message board.[/quote]the FARMS rates for Einstein and Wheaton are 2-3 times that of Walter Johnson which is adjacent to those clusters[/quote]

Right but even within those clusters there is vaiability- there are nice SFH home neighbohoods and there are run down apartment blocks.  You'd have to do more than nibble at the edges of the boundaries because it isn't going to get you what you want- you'd probably have go create "holes" within the Einstein and Wheaton clusters to get enough FARMS kids in a concentrated area and ship those kids to WJ.  [/quote]

Not really. There is.an option that sends Veirs Mill ES and Wheaton woods ES to WJ and Woodward. What is missing is an option that sends Kensington Parkwood ES (excluding the island that is next to Woodward) to Einstein HS. Now that enrollment projections are down, they could easily make room at Einstein for KP. They are explicitly choosing to not even discuss this.[/quote]

Oh ok, so you're only looking to balance HSs, not "every school."  That's a bit more feasible.  If KP were rezoned to Einstein does that get both high schools close to 44% each?[/quote]

Why did you put "every school" in quotes?

Also it is not my job to calculate new FARMS rates. Our tax dollars are paying for a consultant whose job it is to do just that, but they were instructed not to offer this particular change in their options even though it would satisfy three of the four factors, which is rare.[/quote]

Because of the previous post: "If the county is 44% FARMS, they should mandate that every school have 44% FARMs. Instead of having one school be 80% FARM and one be 10%."  Does moving KP to Einstein achieve your goal?[/quote]

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