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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The OP raises a valid and legitimate concern. There has been a lack of transparency and responsiveness to parents' input during the recent boundary changes, such as those in Clarksburg and Germantown.  Shifting that decision making to a so-called "independent commission" does not provide any greater transparency or clarity but rather hides it and removes parents as involved stakeholders.  Is that really what Sunil Dasgupta wants?

It looks pretty obvious here.  Parents push back and ask questions about the boundary change process and the BOE just delegates such authority to an independent commission (which has not inherent guarantee of being representative) that no one can question.  [/quote]

No, it doesn't remove "transparency" or "clarity". No, it doesn't remove parents as involved stakeholders. (For example, there is no reason you couldn't put a parent on the boundary review commission.)

And no, the problem with the Northwest-Seneca Valley-Clarksburg boundary study wasn't "a lack of transparency and responsiveness to parents' input". The problem was that some of the parents didn't like the OUTCOME of the boundary study. I.e., they didn't get their way.[/quote]

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