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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 16:34 - you sound unhinged. People understand that there are bright kids at bad schools. And people understand these kids aren't riff raff and deserve better. Here's the issue people are discussing: the fact that bussing the best and brightest out of the bad school and into the good school won't solve the problem...because the smart kids aren't the problem. Rather, the poorly performing students are the issue. And leaving them behind or mixing them in with other better performing students won't address the underlying cause of their poor performance. Understand? If not, then perhaps you (as an MCPS teacher) are part of the problem.[/quote]

Actually, bussing the best students out of the bad schools and into the good schools is not what's meant when discussing potential boundary changes. How on earth would they determine who would be moved that way? By a standardized test? Report card grades?  It would most likely  simply mean having students attend the school that is closest in proximity to their house. For instance, we live closer in proximity to one elementary school than the one my DC is  actually assigned to. Growing up, I lived closer to a non W school than the W school I was actually assigned to. Proposing that students will be bussed cross-county is not a feasible option budget-wise for MCPS. It would completely mess up the ability to use school buses for 4 different start times: high school, middle school, Tier A elementary and Tier B elementary. If you had followed the bell times proposal, you would know that there is not money in the budget to be allocated for the extra buses that your understanding of how the (hypothetical) boundary changes would be executed. [/quote]

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