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It is decent only because it sends the poorest Takoma kids to Eastern much like the west county kids that Takoma parents decry. Takoma middle is way more gerrymandered to pick up SFH than most of the W’s. At least with the W’s they aren’t really excluding local poor kids because there aren’t any. Takoma just ships them to eastern. Don’t worry all the poor kids meet up with the snow flakes at Blair [/quote]

This is a bizarre, and worse, inaccurate point you're trying to make. Eastern's boundaries do not include any area within Takoma Park. TP residents are zoned for either TPMS or SSIMS. No one is "shipped to Eastern" unless they're in the magnet program.[/quote]

+1 I think there is a discussion to be had about school boundaries, but the above PP is just flat-out wrong. Here's the map of the Eastern MS attendance zone. Not only are there no Takoma Park kids zoned for Eastern, the boundary actually makes a fair amount of sense. I mean, maaaaybe some of the Oak View families are moderately closer to SSIMS, but no kid zoned for Eastern is within Takoma Park, or closer to TPMS than to EMS.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/EasternMS.pdf

Here is the TPMS map. Again, it makes sense. There are no weird islands, and it pulls from the entirety of both the TPES/PBES and ESSES boundaries. There's no jerrymandering, and there are plenty of kids who live in multi-family dwellings, including all of the kids who live in the big apartment complexes on the other side of New Hampshire, and the kids in the big apartment complexes on Sligo Ave and Thayer Ave.

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