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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope they can reduce busing costs. Boundaries like Wootton's are terrible. Most of the students live closer to another school.[/quote]

And then Horizon Hill neighborhood which is walkable, DOESN'T go to Wootton.

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In Kensington, many families who live near Einstein also end up being bussed cross-county to WJ. These segregated boundaries from 40 years ago need to go.[/quote]

Every single time I have read claims like this, and then looked into specifics of the actual boundary, it was immediately clear that the boundaries result from constraints from the distribution of population and placements of schools.

Boundaries will be improved where it's doable, but situations like what you're describing are likely to persist after redistricting. [/quote]

LOL which is easily corrected. Why I should pay for your kids to be bussed when there's a perfectly fine school  nearby.[/quote]

DP. You can't pay your taxes a la carte - yes I want to pay for this, no I don't want to pay for that.[/quote]

Regardless, unnecessary busing results in waste that requires higher taxation to make up the shortfall.[/quote]

DDP. Great!  Let's have taxation & budgeting that would support acquisition of land inside the Beltway in SS/TP and build schools so that those areas don't get bussed north/outside the Beltway.  Then you could avoid bussing Kensington folks west, too!

Oh, but those interested in using taxes for W relief first disposed of that SS/TP consideration as too expensive with a brief study.  Good thing they concomitantly sold Woodward as a solution to that DCC overcrowding (before walking much of that back after approval)!  :roll: [/quote]

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