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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These 4 maps are clearly tied to the 4 priorities. I don't think any is going to stay the same. I think we will have some new maps that look different and are a combination of these. I don't understand what the purpose of having maps that are very clearly tied to one of the priorities are. They obviously will work to balance them -- this is not a helpful starting place.[/quote]

Can you help name which map goes to which? Clearly map 3 is the diversity map. What are the others? [/quote]

Map 2 is the utilization map[/quote]

Is option 4 supposed to be the proximity map? What’s weird about that one is the split articulation. That’s antithetical to neighborhood schools[/quote]

I think it maximizes walk zone potential (least busing). [/quote]

But it doesn't maximize walkers at Blair, Wheaton, or Einstein.[/quote]

There's no way you can maximize walkers at every single school without sending the non-walkers to schools pretty far away (in which case you're not really prioritizing proximity anymore.)  Parents seem to think there is some magic way to do this but there is not.  Schools are not equally spread out, they are clumped in some places and far from others, so you have to do things like send Takoma Park kids to Blair and send kids near Blair further north.  #4 is likely the best they can do on the proximity front, or close to it, especially since it seems to do a poor job on all of the other three factors.[/quote]

I think they can do better. They need to draw the potential walk zones rather than just the existing ones. Start there and then work out the options for the remaining available space. Like TOK isn't shaded as being in the walk zone for Einstein, but that's only because it's not currently zoned to Einstein. They need to look at the walk zones without being restricted by current boundary lines.
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