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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is vital that folks coming to this discussion late understand that the redistricting of SV, Clarksburg, and Northwest was not primarily about diversity. It was primarily about capacity, and the fact that Seneca Valley was expanded to accommodate about double the amount of students it could originally handle.

So, you have adjoining clusters with wild disparities in utilization, and a school being rebuilt and expanded. By any measure, this situation demanded a boundary revision, which also meant a revision to middle school zones because you needed to fill those 1000 new seats in the high school somehow.

So, you had a middle school (Neelsville) that had been run down for years, but the folks sitting pretty right next door didn't care, because it wasn't their kids who were supposed to attend.

The Board of Education considered some large number of options, more than 10 if I remember correctly, and chose one after a series of public meetings.

Now the parents who had a run-down middle school next door are furious, because suddenly this is their problem. Except....if we are a community, it was always their problem. They just didn't care back then.

At any rate, I don't see this "appeal" going anywhere. The BoE did all the things they were supposed to do in terms of public comment and considering different options. They just have solicit comment, not put the zoning up to a direct vote. 
 
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As a person who has followed this from the beginning, I felt this was a pretty good summary. I think you got to the real issue is that people only care about these issues when it affects them, but the BoE is charged with looking after all the students. Not sure why that's so hard for people to grasp. [/quote]

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