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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should they include busing?

1.  If I choose to keep my kid at their current school that is on me.  Just like if I choose to pupil place my kid elsewhere for language, AP/IB, whatever, I am responsible for getting them there and back.

2.  One of the biggest complaints I see on this board is how much time and money is wasted bussing AAP kids to center school.    Why would FCPS  spend even more time and money shuttling around kids that want to stay at their school.  There isn't enough drivers or busses to make this happen or time in the day to accomodate this.   Many of the bus drivers are already doing 3-4 runs each morning and doing it again the in afternoon.  Now, you want to add another route to this.  [/quote]

Agree.

Grandfathering without bussing is the fairest option.[/quote]

Grandfathering without busing is the textbook definition of inequitable access to programming. It’s one of the reasons Sniveling Sandy and her crew has pushed back on it.

It should be an interesting debate at that meeting, but they probably will spend more time with their photo ops than discussing anything substantive.[/quote]

Then pupil placement in general is inequitable since only families who can provide their own transportation can take advantage of it. I don't think you can argue against parent-provided transportation for grandfathering on the grounds of equity and still allow parent-provided transportation for pupil placements for other reasons. [/quote]

Correct. The school board is very inconsistent, as we all know. This will just serve to further highlight how much of a farce the policy 8130 factors really are.[/quote]

Mateo Dunne has already said he'll go to bat to object to a proposed boundary change in his district clearly designed to follow Policy 8130.

The problem was that Moon, Sizemore-Heizer, and the others on the Governance Committee fast-tracked revisions to Policy 8130 that aren't aligned with community priorities.  They should have engaged more with the public before revising Policy 8130, not afterwards, and their failure to do so reflects fundamental errors in judgment that demonstrate their unfitness to hold public office.

Now they are trying to toss people a bone and this, too, will not go over well.

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