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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was posted on our neighborhood listserve by someone who attended the in-person meeting.

Needless to say, I heard a lot of complaints about option 3; someone from the company contracted to do the study said that they needed to at least present option three because it addresses one of the four criteria — demographics. But she acknowledged it would require extensive busing and crazy “islands” of students who would be sent far from their original middle and high schools. Unfortunately there’s no quick fix to our school system’s demographic issues. [/quote]

Thanks for sharing- my kids would be in one of those islands and I'm not thrilled about that idea.  AGreed that there is no quick fix and perhaps it's good that the option was presented to illustrate that.[/quote]

There will be board members very much in support of those islands and trying for a quick fix by bussing from west to east.  The survey takes some work and thought.  However, if people don’t object to option 3, they will do it.

It seems to me that their goal is to break up the so-called problem areas. Kind of like how they will move seats for kids who get it into trouble.  They don’t deal with the underlying issues, just move the chairs around and separate kids. That is option 3 and that is what they did with Neelesville MS in the Clarksburg boundary study.  Here, that is Kennedy and Wheaton. They don’t seem to really care about the overcrowding or the bus budget. You can expect this in the final version, no matter what the nice consultant acknowledged.[/quote]

Wheaton is already overcrowded.  I think they put it in there for a reaction and attention.  We need to out all the BOE members.  They created this and the new ones are doing nothing to fix the mess.  [/quote]

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