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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Folks, you can dial back your diatribes. This isn't happening, certainly not soon and probably not ever. "

"If you're in a "bad" school, its going to stay that way for quite a while, and if you're in a "good" school you've got nothing to fear, for years if at all."

Some of the diatribes are by those in the bad school group. And the last few posts indicate at least some of us would simply like to see MCPS consider how to woo back the families already in the red zone. [/quote]

I'm in the woo us back group.  There are boundary studies coming up in the next year or so intended to deal with overcrowding issues in the elementary schools in at least part of the red zone.  So a fine-tuning sort of boundary adjustment is very likely to happen in the near future even if the idea of an overhaul is pretty much pure fantasy at this point.  Maybe faced with the choice of an increasingly angry mob of red zone families that are calling on him to completely overhaul boundaries, he can at least take this more localized boundary study seriously and not disregard input from community members when they explain what it would take to get them back.  At least one board member was clear that she thought it was time for at least one of the pairings to be split because the affected communities have consistently expressed displeasure with it and all numbers show that it's not actually balancing demographics and is instead causing a bizarrely high number of families to claim hardship transfers.  Starr should be hearing that concern and acting on it, not hiding his head in the sand.  Do something real for a change.  There are things he can do that don't require the huge undertaking of county-wide bussing, but he needs to start TRULY listening to what communities are saying, not just holding meetings that allow him to say he sought community feedback.[/quote]

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