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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]for the last time they are going to do minor tweaks to mainly address capacity issues while also looking at diversity in contiguous clusters only

no one is going to be going cross county

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I think this is likely how things will shake out.  [b]But let’s not pretend the BOE has said this.  [/b]They haven’t indicated how they will weigh and balance the various, at times competing, objectives they are trying to achieve.  Doing so at this early juncture wouldn’t be prudent.[/quote]

Actually they have said this.[/quote]

They haven’t.  They have outlined their objectives.  But they have not indicated how they will prioritize things when the objectives point to different results in particular areas.[/quote]

Yes, they have.

[i]A Focus on Adjacency: We have received messages from some community members who have heard rumors that the districtwide boundary analysis will result in a “busing plan” that will reassign students from one end of the county to the other to address issues of overcrowding and diverse learning environments. First, as stated above, the analysis will not result in any specific recommendations for student reassignments. Second, as the Board’s resolution references and the consultant will show, at the regional meetings, schools and school clusters adjacent to one another across the county can have significantly different levels of utilization and student diversity. Finally, MCPS has and will continue to maximize walkers, in no small part, because it is economically efficient. However, there always will be a need for some students to ride buses to school. Currently, the majority of our student body (more than 100,000 students) is eligible to ride a school bus every day. [/i]

Have they stated what they will do under every possible circumstance that might arise? No, of course not, and it would be ridiculous to expect them to state in advance how they will make decisions based on analytical results they don't even have yet.

Another thing that's ridiculous: this panic about the boundary analysis.[/quote]

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