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I made sure to buy in the middle of the best clusters so that if they changed boundaries, it wouldn’t impact us. I am all for regular tweaking of boundaries anyway, since that’s what’s best for the county demographically.
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There are zero guarantees.  You could live a stone's throw from the HS and still be rezoned.[/quote]

Exactly, which is why we live where the surrounding high schools are ALL good. I was clear enough in my first post.[/quote]

So you're in favor of boundary changes, as long as they don't affect you? That's nice, I guess.[/quote]
I would lmao if that person got rezoned to a "lower" performing school, or they shipped in tons of undesirables into their cluster - either could actually happen.[/quote]

Don't be dense, I’m neither for nor against boundary changes, I just bought where these changes wouldn’t affect me. You should know by now that mcps will never bus general ed kids long distance anymore, because the single most expensive budget item is already transportation. Bussing longer distance would kill the budget, which is hanging by a thread as it is.

The only thing they WILL do, is rework boundary edges to accomodate new schools, including Woodward. It’s the perfect opportunity to include other changes they wanted to make but were afraid to do.

Stop looking for a fight. The era of geographic redistribution is long gone.

[/quote] completely agree but am also aware DCC boundary maps and a couple others are often anything but optimal For example, people who literally live across the street from one high-school are bussed to another. [/quote]

That's true and unfortunate. But it's the side effect of Blair moving to Four Corners and then Northwood reopening only 10 blocks away. With no high schools in inside-the-Beltway SS or TP, the boundaries just aren't going to be optimal.[/quote]

Yes, I've looked at the clusters many times and there is really no simple way to draw the boundaries particularly for the DCC schools.  If we could place the schools in the middle of the cluster in an ideal world that would be perfect.  Not mention being adjacent to the weird diamond shaped DC compounds the problem.[/quote]

One easy fix for Blair is western Silver Spring is just as close to B-CC. Ship them to B-CC to alleviate overcrowding and offload the added capacity to Woodward on B-CC's northern boundary. Seriously, B-CC is the most downcounty of all high-schools being inside the beltway. May as well draw from the DCC! :)[/quote]

Western silver spring already ships kids to BCC to help with diversity. [/quote] Then greatly expand on it.  [b]Blair needs to offload 500+ students and Woodward could easily provide that [/b] to people on B-CC’s northern boundary. [/quote]

Again, "easily" is not an adverb to use here.  Northwood is 10 blocks from Blair and is getting a huge addition.  It would make more sense to redraw the Northwood/Blair boundaries. [/quote]

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