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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So our PTA is recommending voting for all four options even though I think that's kind of stupid. We're not affected by any of them. What do you all recommend as being the best and why?[/quote]

Don't vote for any of them-- they don't solve the real problems and leave Wheaton overcrowded (or require tons of money in capital funding to add space there there that wouldn't be needed if anyone was willing to inconvenience WJ or BCC families even a little.)

Tell them instead they should [b]move Sargent Shriver from Wheaton to Woodward[/b], Farmland from Woodward to WJ, and move some Kensington kids into Einstein.  [/quote]

Shriver is entirely within the Wheaton walk zone. It shouldn't be moved.[/quote]

And Kensington is within the Einstein walk zone.  Not everyone can be zoned to the schools they can walk to and still make everything work out.  It's not okay for Wheaton to remain overcrowded (or for MCPS to ask for funding for unnecessary construction) as under the current options.  So do a little shifting and rather than have the Shriver kids walk to Wheaton, have the Kensington kids walk to Einstein instead.[/quote]

Not all parts of Kensington are walkable.  The town is not walkable nor is it safe.

You move the town and Wheaton to Woodward.  [/quote]

The town is not less walkable to Einstein than other areas that currently walk to Einstein. [/quote]

They're not going to split articulate the TOK from the rest of Kensington-Parkwood because of the region 1/3 divide. They could move all of K-P to Einstein but there's not enough room.[/quote]

You'd have to move students out of Einstein to do that and TOK would not be agreeable due to the lack of course offerings.  They'd have to "fix" Einstein and they aren't going to.[/quote]

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