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+100, and we are zoned for Einstein.  I know my kid will do the same no matter which school he’s in.  [b]I’d hate
For my kid to be bussed across the county for the sake of diversity [/b]when he can already get that at his home schools, which he can walk to. [/quote]
And they won't. Why do people keep insisting that this is in the cards.  It's not.[/quote]

Sure, but what about places like Churchill and Whitman, where in order to make an impact on diversity, the student would need to be bused quite far?[/quote]

MCPS IS NOT GOING TO REASSIGN KIDS TO SCHOOLS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTY.[/quote]

DP.  But there will be no way to meaningfully diversity Whitman and Churchill without significant bus rides.

So, either MCPS will have to accept fairly segregated schools, notwithstanding their desire to diversify, or they will need to accept longer bus rides, notwithstanding their contention that that won’t happen.

No one knows which route they will choose yet.  But they are both plausible possibilities.[/quote]

Things MCPS hasn't said:

1. All schools must be diverse/diversified
2. Nobody will have longer bus rides than they do now

It's just astonishing, how many posters on DCUM already [i]know[/i] what MCPS will do with the results of the analysis, when the analysis doesn't even have results yet, let alone MCPS follow-on actions. Enviable crystal balls they must have.[/quote]

It's not astonishing, given the recent changes the BOE made to policy FAA, which made diversity the most important factor in determining school assignment.

It just happened in Clarksburg and Germantown.  New boundaries have resulted in change of school assignment and longer bus rides for some students in order to better balance diversity.

On Sept. 24, 2018, Montgomery County Board of Education (BOE) changed its Policy FAA, Educational Facilities
Planning to put student demographics (including racial/ethnic composition and FARMS rate) above all other factors
(including geographic proximity and facility utilization/overcrowding) in redistricting. Before, they were ranked
equally to balance the needs of families as well as the school system. (FARMS rate refers to the rate of students
receiving Free And Reduced-price Meals.)

On Nov. 26, 2019, BOE put this policy into practice and redrew school boundaries in Clarksburg and Germantown.
The option that 81.9% of the survey respondents in Clarksburg wanted sent Clarksburg students to
Clarksburg schools and Germantown students to Germantown schools. However, the Superintendent rejected this
and a similarly related option: “I am not able to support these options because they do not advance the
demographic characteristics of schools factor when evaluated from the FARMS population perspective.”
The option the Superintendent recommended and BOE adopted buses Clarksburg students to Germantown
and Germantown students to Clarksburg to balance out FARMS rates. Students will spend much longer time on the
bus than in the rejected plan above. Clearly, when redrawing school boundaries, FARMS rate trumps geography.[/quote]

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