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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These last comments sum it all up

If you can afford to live in one of the richer parts of the county of course the schools are fine.  (P.S. liberals think you are racist by the way)

The issue is the middle class areas are going down hill and there are more and more ghetto areas now[/quote]

The issue is that there are people in Montgomery County who wish it were still 1975, but it isn't.[/quote]

Sorry, living in a W cluster doesn’t make you racist.  I’m sorry that people think that.  [/quote]

You're right. Living in a W cluster doesn't make you a racist. Wishing that it were still 1975 in Montgomery County suggests you might have some bigoted thoughts, though.[/quote]

Np. Ok, I wasn’t even born in 1975, or 1985, so I have no idea what MCPS was like. I know that my kids and  I love out local school that they walk to, and we are not going to be happy if my kids suddenly become bus riders. Does that make me racist? [/quote]

Of course not. But you should know that MCPS has been consistently saying they want to maximize the number of walkers to schools. The two recent boundary studies *did not* reassign walkers to different schools to become bus riders. No one wants that or has proposed that.[/quote]

but if our elementary school is moved to another cluster, we are no longer walkers to middle and high. That’s my biggest fear! Just like Ritchie Park was moved to Richard Montgomery, and kids from Horizon Hill who should be walkers to Wootton, are bussed to RM. [/quote]

In the upcounty boundary study, there were several 'islands' within an ES zone which were walkable to the HS, and these were assigned to the walkable high school. Areas outside of the walk zone were considered for reassignment.

Here are several examples of this being addressed in the superintendent's report:

"My recommendation provides contiguous boundaries for the three high schools and ensures that
current and future walkers are not reassigned to a high school requiring bus transportation."

"By maximizing the number of walkers, the school system minimizes the number of buses used and
reduces the impact on the environment and resources on the school system."

And in referring to several options which were not selected:

"Both of these points contradict my goal to maximize
walkers and would have a negative impact on students and families, as well as requiring additional
transportation resources and negatively impacting the environment."

"Therefore, I did not consider these options in my deliberations, as they do not fully maximize
walkers as well as options developed in the second round."

"Both of these points are counter to my
goal of maximizing walkers, and lead to negative impacts on students and families, as well as on
transportation resources and the environment. Therefore, I could not recommend this option."[/quote]

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