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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Even that’s the case, 520 students need a lot more buses to accommodate. One bus can transport around 50.
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Well year one of the new programs is only freshman, so one bus from each high school should fit everyone.  The idea that they think an equal number of kids will leave each high school makes no sense since that is not at all what it looks like currently (for example Rockville currently sends 37 kids to criterion programs and Wootton sends 202).  Unless they plan to only accept a certain number of students from each school to force the numbers to be even.  Which I guess would be equality though certainly not equity.[/quote]

135 students need more than 2 buses per school per year [/quote]

Poor wording on my part - one bus per high school going to each other high school in the region (so Rockville would have three buses total - one bus to RM, one to Wootton, and one to Churchill).[/quote]

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