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This. It will be really interesting to see what they do with SV and the impacted schools. It's going to be ugly so get your popcorn ready, folks.[/quote]

It was always going to be ugly, because of the contingents from the Clarksburg and Northwest clusters who want Clarksburg and Northwest to be segregated high schools, and the poor kids should all go to Seneca Valley for their own good due to geographic proximity. There was already quite enough of that with the Hallie Wells MS boundary study, and even with the original Clarksburg HS boundary study. Just because we're in the Siberian Hinterlands doesn't mean we can't be every bit as nasty as parents in Bethesda, Potomac, and North Potomac.[/quote]

Well I get why they'd be pissed. No reason to bus kids 2 or 3 exits over to the other town just to fulfill the MCPS agenda.
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Take a closer look at the current boundaries. There are areas closer to SV that feed Clarksburg, and areas closer to Clarksburg that feed SV. There are areas closer to QO currently feeding Northwest and Wootton. Wait until we add Crown HS into the mix. There is no way to keep up with the ongoing development and demographic shifts as neighborhoods age. Personally, I think that the time for fixed boundaries is past. Every neighborhood should have two or three possible elementary, middle, and high schools to attend. School assignment can be decided by choice process (with no default home school), which considers capacity in addition to choice. Simply allowing choice may let some of the capacity issues to resolve themselves. But it gives longer term flexibility for moving students from overcrowded schools to less crowded ones (and then back 15 years later when the neighborhood shifts.)[/quote]

I think this is a great idea. I've always wondered why they don't have a DCC concept anywhere else in the county.  But I especially like the idea of not having a fixed school based on your neighborhood.[/quote]

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