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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So how do we lobby to at least split the county in two for weather-related emergencies? (In two halves--north/south or urban/rural--I just think the county is too large to have one decision govern all schools). Who's in charge of that? And how do we deal with the teacher who lives, in say, Gaithersburg, but who teaches in Bethesda? Her kids' schools would be closed but she'd have to come and teach my children in Bethesda? [/quote]

How do we deal with the kid who lives in, say, Gaithersburg, but who goes to school in Bethesda?[/quote]

Does that happen?  Seems like there aren't any magnet schools in Bethesda, they are all overcrowded local schools.  In any event Gaithersburg and Bethesda would be probably be in the same zone. It's places like Poolesville and Clarksburg that tend to have different weather patterns.

It would have to be like private schools. They base decisions on where the majority of their students live.  Sure they may have a few who live farther out but those aren't the ones driving the decision.[/quote]

Fine. How do we deal with the kid who lives in Damascus and goes to school in Silver Spring? How do we deal with the kid who lives in Germantown and goes to school in Rockville? How do we deal with the kid who lives in Gaithersburg and goes to school in Poolesville? Yes, that happens. And unlike in private schools, they get there by school bus. Do you think that MCPS would be fulfilling its responsibilities if it told the kid who lives in [one of those places that might as well be Mongolia to you] and goes to school in [places near you] that school is open, but the kid either has to get a ride there, or miss a day of school?[/quote]

Sure.  They can just say on those days when one zone is closed and the other isn't that there is no cross county bus service. Parents can drive on those days, or find alternative transport, or yes, miss a day of school.  DC doesn't provide bus service and they (sort of) fulfill their responsibilities to their students.  The numbers who would really be traveling across a county dividing line would be small and should 100,000 kids stay home so that 100 can ride the school bus (who knows exactly what the numbers are - the magnet programs are all pretty small and the numbers coming from far away even smaller)? Or maybe the county continues to regionalize the magnet schools and keeps kids within zone 1 and zone 2- seems like they are starting to move in that direction anyway.[/quote]

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