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OK so you don't know what it means.  You seem to have it confused with cross-county busing.  No worries.  I'll educate you.  Countywide means throughout the country.  Busing kids to adjacent clusters will, more often than not, mean busing kids to schools farther from home.  Back in 2018 the BOE altered the boundary policy to promote the demographics/diversity factor above the other three factors and also allowed MCPS to rezone kids to schools in adjacent clusters.  The pro-busers who pushed for these changes wanted to see them done COUNTYWIDE, not just in a few corners of the county.

And you pro-busers can keep trying to sell existing busing but no one is buying.  Busing is a specific thing, the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools.  Actually, I take that back.  There are a few cases of busing where MCPS is sending neighborhoods to schools in an effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools like the Rio island in the Wootton map you linked.  As for the Churchill map, it's a circle.  Seems like a very good, rational boundary.

All of that aside, the boundary analysis clearly shows that people don't want their kids bused anywhere.  They are very happy in their current schools.  And if they do have to be moved because of overcrowding, they want to be moved to schools closer to home, not farther.  They also said that diversity isn't very important to them.  And that makes sense.  Most people aren't obsessed with race-balancing as much as white progressives and white progressives make up a tiny minority of MCPS parents.[/quote]

This person has a lot of time on their hands, including at odd hours of the day and night, to post on multiple fora on an anonymous internet message board.^^^[/quote]
They're right though, so I appreciate their efforts. [/quote]

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