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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at the data for the examples provided for Region 4, each school gets about 135 magnet seats filled by students who are not local. That means roughly 520 students per school come from outside the attendance area.

In other words, one-quarter to one-third of all students at each high school are bused in from other parts of the region. That’s a massive amount of “bus in, bus out” activity.  Interestingly the report says it results in only one net bus per year per school?[/quote]

I have heard that the one extra bus per school is because kids will have to get to their local high school on their own to catch a bus to the other school they're attending.  And then I guess that one bus will stop at all the other high schools in the region one by one, so kids will probably have to get to their local HS very early to catch the buses in many cases.

Would be good to get MCPS to confirm this at one of these info sessions...[/quote]

That seems WAY off then, as Google tells me that 48-72 kids fit on a school bus! Unless that's just because that's the "Year 1" budget, where the programs will only be serving 9th graders?
I think the BoE should probably have the "Year 4" budget before considering this proposal![/quote]

Yes, year one budget is just for 9th graders.  Also, honestly, if they're only going to offer busing if you get yourself to your local HS on your own really early in the morning, I can't imagine many kids are going to actually take them up on that, so maybe they just assume everyone will drive?

But yeah, we really need to demand clear answers on this.[/quote]

Yeah, if kids will need to be driven anyway because their regular bus would be too late, then most would probably just drive to the magnet school instead of the home school.[/quote]

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