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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]Elementary schools should be walking distance or close to it.[/b] Drawing boundaries all over the county to make it all equal would cost a fortune in bussing and create a less-involved community. Plus, parents of kids in poor schools aren't the issue. These are parents that are middle class trying to move a little bit higher up the ladder. [/quote]

Why?  I grew up in the northern part of the county.  There was nothing "walking distance or close to it" to my house except farms.  The whole county doesn't look like Rockville/Bethesda/Silver Spring.[/quote]

When you grew up in the northern part of the county, it was farms and you were bussed to the closest school.  You weren't bussed 30min to Rockville, correct?

And I am pretty sure we are talking about NOW and pretty much all areas have an elementary school within 10min bussed.  You wanting kids bussed all over to appease this perfection of FARMS will never ever happen.  [/quote]

I don't really have a "want" for anything as far as who goes where.  I just don't think there's one perfect scenario of what elementary school bus routes "should" look like.  Who is being bussed "all over"?  Give examples of students who have 30 minute bus rides, when another elementary school is within a 10 minute buss ride.  But yeah, my bus ride was 20-30 minutes, with all the stops.  They haven't built any new schools in Damascus, so it probably still would be.[/quote]

But they aren't bussing you any further.  If you want perfect diversity and SES many of the kids in Damascus would have to get bussed to Germantown and vice versa to achieve that.

As far as kids being bussed further, there are many.  All the immersion and HGC busses run on average 50min long.  Our local HGC is 65 minutes long.   If you look at the boundary maps, you will see many schools that have areas where they pass 1-4 other ES to get to their own.  In traffic, that is always 30min later.  Our school gets out at 3:25pm and there are kids that do not walk into their homes until 4:30pm.  Over the next month, the kids in tier 2 elementary schools are getting home after sunset.  It shouldn't be like that just to keep SES/diversity better for some schools and not for others.   [/quote]

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