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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Actually, bussing the best students out of the bad schools and into the good schools is not what's meant when discussing potential boundary changes. How on earth would they determine who would be moved that way? By a standardized test? Report card grades? It would most likely simply mean having students attend the school that is closest in proximity to their house. For instance, we live closer in proximity to one elementary school than the one my DC is actually assigned to. Growing up, I lived closer to a non W school than the W school I was actually assigned to. Proposing that students will be bussed cross-county is not a feasible option budget-wise for MCPS. It would completely mess up the ability to use school buses for 4 different start times: high school, middle school, Tier A elementary and Tier B elementary. If you had followed the bell times proposal, you would know that there is not money in the budget to be allocated for the extra buses that your understanding of how the (hypothetical) boundary changes would be executed.[/quote]

I agree with you that that busing would be a huge expense. I don't think anybody's proposing selectively busing the best students. It's sending half of Wooton to Kennedy and vice versa.

Busing was tried extensively in the 70s and 80s. School systems have moved away from that approach to other approaches (like magnets) because it hasn't worked or it had disruptive consequences or unintended side effects. Would the courts reject a legal challenge to busing today when there is proof that district wide busing is not a cure all? Probably not.  It's better to focus on approaches that have a better track record or new approaches than to propose repeating failed, expensive ones that would be challenged in court.

Some of you come across as more motivated by your antipathy to bethesda and Potomac than by the idea of actually helping kids!

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