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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recent MCPS discussions in Reddit discuss the possibility of Magruder, Rockville, and Sherwood eventually being part of the boundary study and many are agreeing to it.[/quote]

Hopefully it will be brought up at the next BOE meeting. If not, I think the chances are really small, since Flo would basically need to redo everything and also gather feedback from those areas.[/quote]

That would be good.  They are obviously trying to split up the cluster of poverty feeding to Kennedy by busing Kennedy students all the way over to Woodward and Farmland students all the way over to Kennedy.

It would be more helpful to split that up among schools that are closer — Rockville, Sherwood, Magruder etc.[/quote]

The problem with that is those schools probably already have a decent sized FARMS population and adding anymore/taking away any non FARMS student would really affect them.  (I didn't look any of this up and don't know what the numbers look like)

Walter Johnson likely has the lowest FARMS rate out of all of them.  So moving around FARMS students wouldn't have them go above a certain threshold.  ie for Option 3, which is probably the one with Kennedy students has the FARMS rate from Walter Johnson go from 19.8 to 32.6 percent.

It's not ideal but it leaves Walter Johnson towards the middle of the pack for FARMS rates.  Most other schools (non W) could push it higher into the 40 percent range.

Part of the issue is that the county is segregated economically.

So you can't really split up the poverty without having students travel relatively far from their current home school.[/quote]

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