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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You cannot expect perfection.  There will always be some kids who can walk to one school but instead get bussed somewhere else.  [/quote]

But the whole point of option 4 is to prioritize proximity.[/quote]

Picking boundary is not an exercise in maximizing one factor. It's trying to get balance of all 4 factors as much as possible.

BOE should make decision to balance everything as much as possible. That's the goal. Goal is not pick most proximity or most efficient utilization or uniform diversity etc if it means lots of big negatives. [u]Goal is -  try to balance as much as possible without any huge negative.[/u]

If providing a bus to kids having 40 minutes walk one way makes all schools at or below 100% and avoids making WJ another Whitman then I see it as a good compromise. If we try to bus kids who live 5-10 minutes away to balance other things then I see it as not so good a compromise. Having said that some time we have go for even second compromise but we are not dealing with that kind of compromise here.

You correctly pointed out a negative, but positive outweighs the negaive by a large margin in this modification of option 4. Just my opinion.

- RM parent[/quote]

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