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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s funny bc svhs and NW are basically within a mile of each other on 118 (ish)  yet 3 greatschool SES levels apart.

SO FAR YET SO CLOSE![/quote]

Northwest gets the kids from Darnestown and Boyds, the nicer part of Germantown. SVHS pulls from the rough neighborhoods.[/quote]

I.e., more of the poor kids from Germantown currently go to Seneca Valley HS than to Northwest HS (Seneca Valley HS 37% FARMs, Northwest HS 23% FARMs). That's all.

I hope that the Clarksburg-Seneca Valley-Northwest rezoning will help, and that the voices of the minority of Clarksburg and Northwest parents who think that poor kids should go to NOT-their-kid's-high-school will not be listened to.
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(Also, there is no such thing as "Boyds, the nicer part of Germantown." The part of Germantown that has a Boyds zip code is: Germantown.)
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I don't know how you deduced that PP was implying  that Boyds is NOT part of Germantown.  Also as a  minority parent at one of these schools, I have no issue with poor kids coming to our school. We already have them here. What I do have an issue with is driving kids on 270 or miles away across town to balance FARMS, when there's a school down the street that is closer. I know MCPS doesn't care about that.[/quote]

PP was implying that Boyds IS part of Germantown. It's not. Northwest HS is in Germantown, and the neighborhoods around Northwest HS are also in Germantown.

Geographic proximity is one of the factors in boundary decisions.

Seneca Valley HS and Northwest HS are less than 2 miles apart - in fact, they're in each other's walk zones -  so it's really not an issue of driving kids "miles away across town".[/quote]

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