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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With Northwood HS, Woodward HS and Crown HS coming on line in just a few years, the time is now for a county wide boundary study.  But that would be too much common sense, so no, MCPS won't do it.[/quote]

How would that be common sense? Common sense would be to conduct two smaller (but still quite large) boundary studies, one for each set of schools that will be affected by the construction of these new buildings: in 2023-24, a Woodward study to include WJ, Blair, Einstein, Kennedy, Northwood, and Wheaton; and in 2024-25, a Crown study to include Gaithersburg, Northwest, Quince Orchard, RM, and Wootton.

I can't see anything sensible about throwing in all other schools' boundaries too.[/quote]
In either case, I think we can agree that one way or the other, there will be busing on a large scale after these two studies are complete unless we elect candidates who will [b]comit to sending kids to their nearest school li[/b]ke 90% of the county wants.[/quote]

Schools are too overcrowded for this to occur.[/quote]

And the boundary analysis report found that doing this would nearly double the number of overcrowded elementary schools:

Rezoning students to their closest school has a drastic negative impact on utilization rates

Rezoning elementary school students to their closest school in Step One widens the total range of utilization rates from 62% - 200% to 34% - 225%. This increases the total number of overutilized elementary schools from 20 to 38. The effect is similar at the middle and high school levels, with more schools becoming significantly under- and overutilized.[/quote]
And yet no one on the BOE thought that utilization rate should be the priority...or proximity.  The elevated the one factor hardly anyone cares about, diversity.  This shows how woefully out of touch the BOE is with the overwhelming majority of residents in MoCo.[/quote]

Of course they did/do. In every boundary study, utilization has always been a priority, both before and after the policy revision. One could even argue it is the top priority, because this factor has been used to support or reject most of the options presented. The selected option is always a compromise among the four factors, but in most cases, utilization rates are improved.[/quote]

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