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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous]Springbrook to Whitman, avoiding highways shows 13.1 miles 34 minutes
Springbrook to WJ, avoiding highways, 10.7 miles, 30 minutes

Blake to WJ, avoiding highways, 12.9 miles, 32 minutes

Watkins Mill High School to Wootton, 10.5 miles, 30 minutes
Watkins Mill High School to QO, 6.7 miles, 20 minutes

Are those far off from what they have now:
Kennedy to Wootton, 9.4 miles, 25 minutes
Damascus to Quince Orchard, 14.8 miles, 30 minutes[/quote]

More like 50 mins during rush hours [/quote]

I agree but it's still what they have in their proposals.  So no reason why they can't add the other school combination into their proposals too.

If they're not looking into improving the schools that need the most help or access to resources.  If they can't do that, then they shouldn't even bother with major disruptions or expensive options that don't  make sense.

Besides trying to balance FARMS rates, to have schools not go over a certain FARMS rate (upper 20s) other school systems pour a lot of money into programs and initiatives focusing on the high risk initiatives.  Like ACTUALLY trying to help them improve.  Not just trying to mix up their numbers so they get diluted and not look as bad.  Maybe MCPS does that too and I'm just not aware of it.  But I don't see any of the things going on addressing the lower performing/bottom ranked schools in MCPS.[/quote]

How is there anything a school system can do to increase family income in the area so there's fewer families at FARMs income level?[/quote]

They really can't.  The issues with the school system is really a further reach than school systems can really do.

But they're trying to cause major disruptions in the name of equality but are failing to do so with the unbalanced areas, and the areas with lower performing schools not getting the same opportunities.

In some ways, the idea of regions isn't too bad.  Where it gives students access to go to better schools.  But then again, region 2 really only has one higher performing school to go to.  Region 5 similar, where their top tier school is Northwest, maybe Crown.

So they're basically closing off access to the better schools that the students in other regions have.  Balancing regions 5 and 6 looks like an easy fix.  As other poster mentioned, just swapping QO and Seneca Valley makes a difference in FARMS rate and minimal impact in area maps.

2 would be a little bit harder.  But the schools like the ones in area 2 which are the ones that need access to other schools and resources.[/quote]

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