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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given the current financial environment/MCPS budget, I think they are going to prioritize the option that is the best for facility utilization. [/quote]

Maybe they need to make walkers go to their HS within 2 miles instead of busing them past 1-3 HS to change around some FARMS numbers. It’s expensive and wasteful and it’s takes the neighborhood feel out for schools. Split MS is also a terrible idea. The maps are so messed up looking [/quote]

Well said.... What a shame to bus walkers who live across the street from QO to go to Gaithersburg (or even Crowne)? We can literally hear the announcer at football games on Friday nights from my house... so much so that my 3 year old can't fall asleep. And you want to bus us away from this?? So frustrating!! Do better MCPS![/quote]
eh..I can hear the Friday night games at Wootton very clearly, but we are zoned for RM.  We are also walking distance to Wootton, but none of the options have our neighborhood going back to Wootton.

Unfortunately, some of the HS are so close together that some neighborhoods will end up going to the school further away.  Woodward and WJ are super close together, too, and they will have the same issues.[/quote]

But at NO point should  neighborhoods that are in walking distance to ANY school get bussed to another school, especially ones that back up to a school. Not with the congestion of this county, the traffic issues, emissions, climate change, and cost of buses/gas and the constant complaints of budget cuts.

And I know your area. It’s ridiculous to keep them going to RM, but instead move Wayside ES to Wootton. Buses all over Falls Rd/Wootton Parkway area that do not need to be there. Traffic is awful there every morning already. No one can drive down Wootton Parkway either direction from 7:15 to 8am every day. The buses have to drop off so early to avoid the traffic. Teens don’t want to arrive at school 7am for 7:45am start time. So they get driven instead. The same will be said for other schools.

The goal should be decrease traffic and congestion and encourage walking.

There just needs to be common sense and NONE of these address neighborhood issues. The fact Washingtonian tower and townhouses directly across the street from Crown will be bussed to Wootton still in most plans is abysmal. Kentlands buses to Gaithersburg, etc… [/quote]

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