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I’m seriously thinking about moving. Where in Wootton district is not susceptible to busing to other district? Or maybe have to go to Churchill [/quote]

Nobody in the Wootton service area will get bused to a high school in a different service area, unless they're in a magnet program.

On the other hand, it is likely that the boundaries of the Wootton service area will change as a result of the Crown HS boundary study, since Wootton will be included in the Crown HS boundary study. But in that case, the people bused to a different high school won't be in the Wootton service area, they'll be in the service area for that high school.[/quote]

Looks like you typed so much for nothing. Of course the question is asking where in current Wootton service area would be safe[/quote]

Safe? Safe from what dangers?

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Danger of kids being the first batch of a brand new high school and [b]being ripped off[/b][/quote]

Ripped off? What would they be cheated/defrauded of? Having an old, run-down building instead of a brand-new one?[/quote]
+1 some of you are seriously ridiculous.

Should we NEVER have any boundary redrawn?  Should we never build new schools to address the population growth?  What should be done about overcrowded schools? Does it make any sense to have one school over capacity and an adjacent school be under capacity?

Everyone else can move but my neighborhood.    NIMBYism at its finest.
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Redrawing because of overcrowding is understandable, redrawing to balance farm rate is not [/quote]
They have to redraw the boundaries.  If a kid goes on the bus to school A going north, then the boundaries get redrawn such that the kid now takes the bus to school B going south, about the same distance, I really don't see that as a problem.   And it's not like your kid will be *the* only kid in your neighborhood going to a different school.

Many of the boundaries are ridiculous, including Wootton's with that island out that way, and some of the neighborhoods are closer to other schools than Wootton.   There are also neighborhoods zoned for Churchill that is pretty far from that school, and those people who live there who scream the loudest about neighborhood schools and "don't bus my kid just for diversity" look very silly.

Also, diversity has always been part of the four factors when drawing boundaries. It's not a new thing.  There is no way to draw boundaries giving each factor the same weight. Sometimes, diversity will be given a bit more weight than geography, and sometimes not.  There have been at least two boundaries recently where the option that was chosen was not the one that had diversity as the most important factor. This was explained in the Supe's memo, and you could also clearly see it in the options.

I feel like a broken record writing this.[/quote]

Many people in Western moco fear change especially to school boundaries. They are afraid of diversity and seem to not realize that all these schools are roughly the same. [/quote]

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