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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Woodacres boundary includes kids that are in the walk zone for Whitman and can easily walk to school which will be lost in Option F.  As noted above,  there seems to be [b]no real reason [/b]for making this change and I can't see how flipping Woodacres and Bethesda ES benefits either community. [/quote]

Demographics and facility utilization are two reasons. It does reduce proximity somewhat but it is literally impossible to send every neighborhood to the closest high school, and many neighborhoods experience this now and will continue to do so.[/quote]

Geographic proximity should always be the number 1 consideration because of the impact on families and students. People move to specific neighborhoods for neighborhood schools because they identify with that community of people.[b] Trying to reshuffle in an attempt to change demographics doesn’t work. [/b]This flip changes proximity a lot. There are major roads (Mass Ave, River Road, Wisconsin Ave) dividing these schools. Removing walkability in high school is crazy. [/quote]

It is literally impossible to send every neighborhood to the closest high school, and many neighborhoods experience this now and will continue to do so. You may think demographics doesn't matter, but the Superindentent and the BOE are required to consider it.

You're not thinking about it from the perspective of the school. They don't get any significant funding at the high school level to address academic needs associated with poverty. If more kids need interventions because they come from low income families that can't hire tutors or help with homework, the school gets no extra resources to provide these interventions. More experienced teachers seek out low poverty schools because their jobs are hard enough and low poverty schools are less challenging to work in. Just because you say demographics don't matter, they absolutely do. [/quote]

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