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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In general, MCPS has said that they will try to preserve walk zones. So,[b] if you live walking distance to a school[/b], or would need to cross a significant barrier like a highway (particularly if the kids are younger), that should provide some consistency.

However, everyone needs to remember that the current boundaries were not handed down by G-d on the mountaintop. They are the result of specific geographic quirks, or a resistance to make big changes when a new school was built.

It's actually possible that boundary changes will increase the number of walk zones for many kids, if MCPS has the guts to just bite the bullet and do it all at once. [/quote]

Also, just because you live in walking [u]distance[/u] of a school (1.0 miles for ES, 1.5 miles for MS, 2.0 miles for HS), that doesn't mean MCPS will consider you a walker. If there's an even slightly big road between you and the elementary school, MCPS will likely not consider you a walker, unless there's a crossing guard there. If there's a big road between you and the middle school or high school, MCPS might not consider you a walker, especially if you live in a wealthy area. For example, Newport Mill MS kids on the other side of Veirs Mill Road are walkers, and so are Eastern MS kids on the other side of University Boulevard, but Silver Creek MS kids on the other side of Connecticut Avenue get a school bus.

So if you currently live in walking [u]distance[/u] of a school you're assigned to, but you get bus service, and you don't want to be reassigned to a different school, then you should start agitating for MCPS to remove the bus service and make you a walker instead.

Also, if you currently live in walking [u]distance[/u] of a school you're [u]not[/u] assigned to, and you want to be reassigned to it, then you should make sure there is a safe walking route to that school, and if there isn't, start agitating for one.[/quote]

Wait, we can be reassigned?? I would LOVE for my kids to go to the other elementary school as we can WALK to it and it’s where 90% of our neighbors go. For some reason a very small pocket of houses in my neighborhood are assigned to our current, further away school (she’s bussed there). We watch kids walking to the other school as we wait for the bus. It makes no sense and we would love for our kids to be at the same school as our neighborhood kids.[/quote]

You could be reassigned in the event that there's a boundary study started that includes elementary school boundaries. The recently proposed one includes high school and middle school boundaries only.[/quote]

You can ask for the boundary study to include elementary schools. That doesn't mean they'll do it, but if you think it's worth doing, then it's probably also worth you asking for it.[/quote]

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