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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It all seems like such an illogical way of dealing with the overcrowding issue. Enrollments are going to continue to grow. Are they going to continue to bus thousands of kids half way across the county? It just seems like it would be a disaster. I can see how it would make sense to take some kids from the closer high schools like Einstein and maybe Wheaton, but the other DCC schools seem too far away to make sense. At some point, BCC and Whitman, and probably other closer high schools will be overcrowded. Then what? And what happens when you get into sports, clubs, and other school activities. Do parents really want to have to schlep 45+ minutes to pick up their kid? I'm not sure what the answer is, and I know it all comes down to funding, but it seems like they'd be better off building another new high school to accommodate the overcrowding at the schools that are further away.
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You don't need to bus everyone long distance. Wheaton and Einstein will contribute for WJ/Woodward. This will leave space in those two schools to help other DCC schools. Slight change in Whitman and BCC is expected. [/quote]

Wheaton isn't anywhere near Woodward. It makes more sense to shift the boundaies for the nearby adjacent schools than bus a bunch of kids from the other side of the county. It would make more sense to bus kids from nearby Whitman which will aslo be overcrowded, but there are better solutions like moving a couple hundred kids from Whitman into WJ and shifting a few hundred more kids from WJ into Woodward.[/quote]

Moving Whitman boundaries are the third rail of MCPS. The process will be contentious enough as it is without adding groups who will grind it to a halt. I bet the changes will be done to WJ and Einstein and a little Blair to back fill the Einstein created vacancies. That is the most likely[/quote]

because the affluent shoudn't be inconvenienced by peons?  They need to get real.[/quote]

Well that is the way it has been since the beginning of time Sweetie.  The real point is why add opponents to an already big fight. Any token shift at Whitman won’t produce juice worth the squeeze. If you keep it to WJ and Einstein mainly, that has a chance to get done without Armageddon.

The WJ parents will “give it a chance” and the Einstein parents will just be happy to be out and sliding towards a (maybe) W school. The space made in Einstein will make room to balance some of the DCC looking to opt out of their home schools.[/quote]

The reason sweetie is because Whitman will be overcrowded by a couple hundred students by the time Woodward opens and it would be easy to shift 200 kids on the eastern boundary into WJ and around 800 on WJ's western boundary into Woodward which will have capacity. However, I'm personally fine with letting Whitman be overcrowded. [/quote]

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