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This already happens in MoCo.  Bussing Darnestown kids last QO to NW and the discussion of bussing them past QO and NW to send them to SV.  We have students at our ES who are bussed right past another ES to come to our school (I think this is because when that development came on line the closer school had less space but I don’t know for sure).  MCPS busses CCES kids past RCF and RH to get to NCC and CCES.  (The pairing of schools is kind of a separate issue I guess).  It is really not clear at all what the new assessment might recommend and how much travel/additional travel may be involved.  They may not make recommendations that involve being bussed past multiple schools or they may.  Really no one knows at this point.[/quote]

Which Northwest bus route goes past Quince Orchard HS? Or when you talk about kids who take buses that go past Quince Orchard HS, are you referring to kids who live nearer to Quince Orchard HS than to Northwest HS?

In any case, as you say, many kids are ALREADY not going to their nearest schools. So I'm just not persuaded by the people who say that this is all about community schools and proximity and has nothing to do with desegregation. Almost certainly the boundary analysis will have some recommendations for reassigning DCUM-demographic neighborhoods to their nearer (poorer, browner) school from their further (less poor, less brown) school, and I expect DCUM to have the predictable response. The Upcounty Boundary Study has some options that do that, and DCUM hates them.[/quote]

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