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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the meeting tonight, there's a poster on Students Not Assigned To Closest School -

ES: 37% of students in MCPS do not attend their closest school
MS: 45% of students in MCPS do not attend their closest school
HS: 38% of students in MCPS do not attend their closest school

That's CURRENTLY in MCPS.

Those are the boundaries that people want to maintain because they want "neighborhood schools."[/quote]
How is this even possible? I call BS.
Kids who are bussed away from their closest school are special ed and magnet students, I'll give you that, but, looking at our catchment area, there's no way almost half of my child's middle school schoolmates live closer to another middle school. No way.
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Maybe not in your catchment, but yours is shockingly not the only one. Off the top of my head, and just in my broader neighborhood:

Takoma Park kids that attend SSIMS instead of TPMS (for the subsection of Takoma Park that attends RTES).

SSIMS kids zoned for Northwood instead of Blair.

Kids zoned for Northwood who are much closer to Wheaton.

Taken all together, and assuming this is not the only cluster, I can absolutely believe that many kids are not in the nearest school. Which is fine! The boundaries need to be somewhere, and they need to take into consideration all sorts of factors, including weird historical stuff like the fact that Blair used to be somewhere else.

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This is probably true at the margins of many school zones. Many people in the Bradley Hills neighborhood in Bethesda live extremely close to North Bethesda (which feeds to Walter Johnson) but go to Pyle/Whitman.  Many people in Kensington are closer to Einstein but are bused to WJ.  On the north end of the WJ feeding area, many people are probably closer to RM.[/quote]

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