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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't necessarily agree that such a redistricting makes sense, unless one school is significantly more crowded than the other, or if redistricting provides a significant increase in the number kids able to walk to school. The existing boundaries were known to the families when they moved to the neighborhood, Changing school district boundaries means that kids won't go to the same school as their older siblings, and that parents and students must adjust to a new school with new teachers and administration.

I see no reason for county-wide redistricting, but rather individual district boundaries should be adjusted as needed to address overcrowding and new school construction.[/quote]

Lots of kids go to different schools than their siblings did, particularly in a place as transient and with as many different options as Montgomery County. I'm confident some zones will remain intact as a result of this study and the eventual boundary revisions. Maybe even most. But the thing about a comprehensive study is that it opens up options that a more limited analysis does not.

If they need to move some kids out of an existing zone to fill another zone (Woodward), then it makes sense to look comprehensively at whether the first school needs a revision to relieve crowding one school over. [/quote]

So you are saying that we need a county wide boundary study every time a new school is built?[/quote]

Well, right now a lot of the boundaries go back to the early 1980s.[/quote]

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