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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has had recent significant growth, while use of facilities is uneven. Some schools are overcrowded and some underutilized. The district hired a consultant to review all current boundaries with an eye to how they affect overcrowding, diversity, and students’ proximity to their schools. The consultants will not recommend any boundary changes and the county will not make any boundary changes during this initial process.

Parents on DCUM and Facebook groups [b]have spread the rumor that children will be bussed far from home in order to balance out school demographics, and that their home values will suffer as a result.[/b] MCPS has specifically responded that they are only looking at schools and clusters adjacent to one another and have no intention of bussing students across the county.[/quote]

It would appear to be the case---not be rumored---that this actually just occurred with a Clarksburg neighborhood (Branch something) that was moved from CHS to Seneca Valley.

"One of the superintendent’s reasons for the option he recommends, option 11a, is that it would more evenly distribute the FARMs rate between schools as well as increase diversity in some schools, with the latter being a priority in a board of education policy known as Policy FAA"[/quote]

PLEASE look at a map. Clarksburg HS and Seneca Valley HS are[u][i][b] adjacent high schools[/b][/i][/u].[/quote]

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