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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please repeat in detail the RM mom probówek option? Looking at the maps and trying to make sense of it so i can full out the survey.

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Modify option 4: Orginally WJ in option 4 has 77% capacity and Wheaton has 120%

Put entire Garrett Park in Woodward.
[b]Put entire Viers Mill in WJ.[/b]

This will bring Wheaton below 100% and bring WJ closer to 100%. It will also balance the FARMS in Woodward and WJ instead of WJ becoming another Whitman.

Modifying option 4 solves capacity in all schools without creating huge gap in economic diversity between WJ and Woodward. WJ and Woodward are around half mile of each other so it won't create issue with travel time for anyone to go to one vs other.

- Same RM parent( a Dad)

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But the eastern half of Viers Mill is within the Wheaton walk zone, so shouldn't be bussed to WJ.[/quote]

Techinically, yes kids are in walk zone, but most of them have a longish walk which crosses busy Viers Mill Rd and connecticut Rd. All kids from Viers Mill have to cross zone going to Sergent Shriver ES first then reach to Wheaton HS. A good portion of the zone your are referring is south of VMES, even from VMES if you take google walk it shows 38-40 minutes walk one way. So for many kids it's 38-40 kids walk to Wheaton vs bus to WJ.

We do bus kids from Viers Mill to WJ in modified option 4 when they are are in walk zone, but they are not like short 5-10 minutes walk. Most of them will have 30-40 minutes walk.  If we try to bus kids going to a closer ES( Sergent Shriver) with 5-10 minutes walk then I do see bigger negative in bussing those kids.

I live in the area and I will hugely prefer my kid taking a bus to WJ.

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