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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I applaud the BOE's efforts to analyze cluster boundaries and to bus the W kids away to other schools so that other kids can have these opportunities regardless of where their parents can afford to buy a home. [/quote]

Don’t you get it?  It will never work.  Ever.  We live in bounds for Whitman and you know what happens if they redistrict and want to bus my kids across town so other kids can “have these opportunities”?  We buy a new house in the new in bounds for Whitman.  As do all of our friends.  Or we go to private.  And then all the “extra parent funds” you want will be gone.  Guess what?  Life isn’t fair.  It’s not.  Some people have more.  My husband works 60-70 hour weeks plus weekends.  Does yours?  And we paid triple for our house in our neighborhood as it would have cost in yours because of the schools.  I wish that the BOE would spend the money doing they’re spending on this stupid redistricting analysis and actually TRY to  figure out what to do to help lower performing schools.  But if you think all the Whitman parents are just going to wave as their kid gets on a bus across town you’re out of your mind.    [/quote]

School choice works fine in the DCC and many DCC schools are adjacent to W's, I can imagine something along these lines would work fine. Put a STEM magnet at Kennedy and W kidds will be climbing all over themselves to get in.[/quote]

Also many of the W boundaries aren't even near the school that they serve. So much more could be done without even bussing anyone.[/quote]

So true! Have you ever seen the Wooton boundary? It's in the far corner of this very long narrow boundary and something like 80% of the students live closer to another HS.[/quote]

Wootton's boundaries are likely to be redrawn, along with RM, QO, Northwest, and Gaithersburg, when Crown HS opens in 2026.[/quote]

I'm personally hoping Woodward will reduce the amount of busing by shifting the boundaries between WJ, Einstein and BCC.[/quote]

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