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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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Sorry, trying to repost and fix my previous messed up quoted post

We live in the Norhwood Cluster. DS attended Highland View ES. We have friends who lived closer to HVES than we do, but were zoned for New Hampshire Estates/Oakview. We live closer to Eastern MS (our friends' kids would have to walk past our house to get to Eastern, their zoned MS), but DS was zoned for SSIMS. Many of his friends at SSIMS live close to Sligo MS. We can walk to Blair, but are zoned for Northwood.
None of the examples I just listed involve kids who are in special ed or magnets. 
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