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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any reason why they could not close the school district in parts?  If there is ice/snow that is causing problems in one part of the country, it seems they could close schools in that part.  It might be difficult to coordinate but certainly not impossible, and I cannot see how it would matter if kids in Poolesville got out of school a day later in June than kids in Silver Spring.  I assume some might say that some kids would have an extra day to study for countywide tests, but the kids do not compete against each other in the whole district with those exams, and if the day is not devoted to test preparation, don't see why it would be such an issue.  There would still be the problem of kids living in a closed part of the school district having to travel to their open school in another part, but that, too, seemed a pretty minor issue given the size of the district.     [/quote]

They tried that back in the 1980's and it was a fiasco.  Parents could not figure out where they lived and on what side of the boundary they were in.  Schools in "Section One" were closed yet kids showed up for school.  Schools in "Section Two" are open but kids stayed home.  It is a fact that many families cannot figure out where they live because they have such a poor grasp of geography.  If they couldn't figure it out in 1987 how are "they", with the large immigrant population, going to figure it out today?

What would they do when the eastern part of the county has a heavy snowfall while the western part doesn't?  People assume that the county is a north/south thing.  It sometimes is not.[/quote]

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