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I don't know about Howard County, but in MCPS's case,  "Bussing kids in an overcrowded, traffic-filled county, past 2-4 other schools to their destination" is not what's being proposed or analyzed.[/quote]

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).  [b]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.[/b][/quote]

But we do know that MCPS has stated this: "Any potential future process would continue to be based on the four factors established in Board Policy FAA, Educational Facilities Planning, for consideration in determining boundaries for student assignment. These four factors are: demographics of the student body population; geographic proximity of communities to schools; stability of assignments over time; and school capacity and enrollment."

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And we also know that they made a big deal about adding "especially" to the FAA policy in reference to diversity as if it meant a change from the past.  And that it was done after some people were not happy with the RM #5 boundary study where Twinbrook was left as a Title I school with a much higher FARMs rate than the other elementary schools in the cluster (though that is what the Twinbrook community advocated for).  I really, honestly think we do not know how significant the changes proposed will be.  It could be nibbling around the edges of particular boundaries and zones where there actually are under-capacity schools or it could be something more dramatic.  We don't know and both the people who are convinced there will be kids being "bussed across the county" and those that say there is no reason for alarm and X, Y, or Z thing will not happen are wrong.  We just don't know.    [/quote]

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