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I'm the PP who opposes long bus rides and I'd agree with you that, if the BOE is going to make boundary changes, the kind that make the most sense deal with balancing capacity issues in adjacent clusters. Will some people complain? Of course. If the BOE assures the public that any school assignment changes will be limited to shifting kids among adjacent clusters and gives some iron-clad guarantees that kids will not be bused beyond "X" miles or "X" number of minutes, I think fewer people would be suspicious of the BOE's intentions, though for sure some would still be upset. [/quote]

They have said that they are looking at adjacent clusters.

They can't give iron-clad guarantees about time and distance. It's a big county. One might almost say that it's a big [i]and diverse[/i] county. And my guess is, whatever miles/number of minutes to the assigned school you consider intolerable, there are kids in MCPS who have that as their current reality.[/quote]

If you read their wording: it says at a MINIMUM they will look at adjacent clusters.  They also said they would not bus kids from ONE end of the County to the OTHER end. They choose their words carefully[/quote]

Let's look at one example.

Magruder and Sherwood are about 7 miles apart. 
very close to each other

Sherwood has about 300 more students than MHS. 
Magruder has twice the number of FARMs (15% vs. 33%).
Oddly enough, at the time of publication, ESOL numbers were the same at 12%.  Sherwood, however, has an ESOL program "given" to them after opting out of the NEC.

Racial breakdown is drastically different.  Sherwood is 50% white; Magruder is 39% Hispanic. Black population is fairly close.  SPED population is close, too.

This is a perfect example of an easy "swap."
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Maybe so. But one can hardly claim that a school that is 50 percent white with FARMS 15 percent is a bastion of white wealthy privilege that needs to be "desegregated." If these are the kind of changes the BOE wants to make, then fine, But proponents need to drop the rhetoric.[/quote]

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