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Not sure why relieving overcrowding has to mess up the boundary of a school that’s not crowded.[/quote]

Students currently assigned to Wootton will be literally across the street from the new high school at Crown, but you think that Wootton shouldn't be included in the boundary study for the new high school at Crown? How about that.[/quote]
but but but .. neighborhood schools![/quote]
Perhaps you did t hear bit, according to the boundary analysis, 90+ % of MoCo supports neighborhood schools.  Conversely, only a small % of MoCo said diversity was important to them. [/quote]
You keep posting this, but it's only 90% of the handful that self selected to take the survey.

You know, busybodies like you.[/quote]

Also schools like Wootton are hardly neighborhood schools or people who live near Einstein end up being bussed across county to a completely different neighborhood. There are so many incidents of kids being bussed today to schools which aren't really the closest to where they live I don't think this argument holds water.[/quote]

This was documented in the boundary study final report:

[i]Excluding enrollment in magnet schools and choice programs, approximately 45% of students districtwide do not attend the school closest to them.[/i]

But keep in mind their findings from running different models:

[i]While rezoning students to their closest schools reduces average distances to school, it negatively impacts assignment stability

After performing Step One, we see that at the elementary school level, rezoning students to their closest schools only decreases the average distance to school for all elementary students by 0.06 miles. At the middle and high school levels, rezoning all students to their closest schools reduces the average distance to school by 0.21 and 0.36 miles, respectively. Rezoning students to their closest schools requires significant reassignment of students: 18.6% of ES students, 25.0% of MS students, and 23.8% of HS students would need to be rezoned for students to attend their closest school.[/i]

and

[i]Rezoning students to their closest school has a drastic negative impact on utilization rates

Rezoning elementary school students to their closest school in Step One widens the total range of utilization rates from 62% - 200% to 34% - 225%. This increases the total number of overutilized elementary schools from 20 to 38. The effect is similar at the middle and high school levels, with more schools becoming significantly under- and overutilized.
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Schools are built where land is available. And MCPS never buys land; they get all their land through dedication from developers.

Even if we were to try to move them around so every school is at the geographic center of its attendance zone, it would work only until student populations shifted again, then it wouldn't work. Again.

Trying to get everyone to their closest school is a fools errand.[/quote]

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