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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.[/quote]

Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty. [/quote]

You notice how the two HS magnet programs are in opposite corners of the county that's inconvenient for the majority of the county?  There was another thread a few months back about Crown.  The capacity at Crown wasn't even necessary if current boundaries were shifted?

I want to know how many overpaid MCPS Central Office / BOE staff at Hungerford send their kids to College Gardens ES or live in Kings Farm?  Someone on the thread was pushing hard to insist that those areas would 100% certain be part of Crown.[/quote]

That’s funny because the word on the street is that the rest of King Farm will be shifted from RM to Gaithersburg, not exactly a “win”.[/quote]

Word on what street?  Why wouldn’t all of KF go to Crown?[/quote]

For real. If you're going to bill taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars for a school you might as well fill it with people who actually want to go there, FFS.[/quote]

At some point folks are going to understand that school boundaries are not about individual persons or neighborhoods wants.  It’s about logistics and creating a positive school experience for all students.[/quote]

You're not solving logistical problems by shuffling around people who are like 2 miles away from the school their current school. You're spending unnecessary money for that capacity in Crown when the district is 90M short for capital improvements and have schools that over a decade overdue for renovation, putting kids' health and safety at risk. And for what?

Introducing unnecessary split articulations is not helping create a "positive school experience for all students", that is absurd and obviously false. Even the BOE recognizes this and has said they want to avoid it as much as possible.[/quote]

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