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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to recognize that sending Wood Acres to BCC is not insane in the way that sending Farmland to Kennedy was. That was insane and pointless. [/quote]

That was definitely insane and pointless but this is just pointless. Why irritate and inconvenience extra people, run more buses and increase cost, with nearly zero gain other than to silence east county people who want to stick it to the west county schools? The point of the boundary study was to fill Woodward and fix overcrowding. This swap has nothing to do with either of those things. [/quote]

The Superintendent and the BOE are required to consider demographics, which is currently the biggest predictor of student achievement. Doesn't that bother you?[/quote]

Bethesda Elementary has 100 kids per grade with about 20 FARMS kids per grade. Wood Acres has about 100 kids per grade and about 8 FARMS kids per grade. If you are only sending 9th and 10th graders in 2027 to the new HS, that’s 40 FARMS kids heading to Whitman from BCC, but 16 FARMS kids heading away from Whitman and to BCC. You think out of the over 2000 kids who attend Whitman the extra 24 kids are going to make a significant difference from a demographic standpoint? These schools have that many kids enroll/unroll on a regular basis. [/quote]

It's significantly fewer high needs kids for BCC to serve. Is it huge? No, but it will benefit BCC to my have a lower needs student body. Just a few weeks ago people were talking about a FARMS rate tipping point of 20% in the literature. While I don't think 20% is necessarily the only number that matters, this change would put BCC just below that number. [/quote]

This supposed slight benefit (a few more/less FARMS kids) in exchange for inconveniencing hundreds of families by sending them to a school double the distance and driving time. FARMS kids don’t want to attend schools further away because it decreases their ability to participate in after school activities. The cost / benefit analysis doesn’t work here. The goal of the boundary study should have been addressing overcrowding at the two schools at focus in the study, not how can we rejigger the whole county to make everyone miserable (in the name of equity). [/quote]

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