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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because if the education that kids get is the same at every school, why would people care whether their kid goes to this school, that school, or the other school?[/quote]

[b]Because my kids can walk to their W school.
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Because busing kids who can walk to school is environmentally irresponsible, a setback to the fight against childhood obesity, and a large additional cost to the county. Because academic performance improves for teenagers when there is a later start time, and busing will require them to wake up even earlier.     Because I feel safer knowing that my child can walk home if there is a school emergency or if he misses his bus.      Because I know many of my teenager's friends who live in the neighborhood.     [/quote]

Well, no. That's begging the question, because there are lots of elementary schools in the county that kids can walk to, that are not in the Whitman/Wootton/Walter Johnson/Churchill clusters. Why do you live where your kids can walk to a Whitman/Wootton/Walter Johnson/Churchill cluster school, instead of somewhere else, where your kids can walk to a non-Whitman/Wootton/Walter Johnson/Churchill cluster school?

And while I agree that busing kids who can walk to school is environmentally irresponsible, the fact is that MCPS is already doing this, all over the place. MCPS is busing a large number of kids who live within walking distance because it is not safe for them to walk. This is called "hazard busing".

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/transportation/rules/riding.aspx#q1

If you're opposed to school busing on environmental grounds, then the fight you should be fighting is to make it safe for students to walk to school.

http://www.gazette.net/article/20121106/NEWS/711069941/1123/students-family-and-officials-gather-at-vigil-for-germantown-youth&t&template=gazette[/quote]

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