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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With so many factors to balance in determining a final call, MCPS should not consider two things:
1) Property value
2) Busing (the most terrible idea since its inception)[/quote]

MCPS and the BOE do not co sider either of those 2 factors. Many inn-informed people who testify bring up property values, whis is an immediate turn off to the Board. Read the room, and advocate for what matters.  To the Board of Education, property values ain't it.

They do not consider "busing," however they do consider walkability.  So if your student is 1 mile from an ES, 1.5 miles from a MS, and 2 miles from a HS, they are in the walk zone for that school, which is seen as a positive.  If there's a major road inbetween home and the school (Beltway, Georgia, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Old Georgetown, River, and others), even if close enough, they will get a bus[/quote]

This is not true.  Kids crossing Conn, Viers Mill, Georgia, Colesville Road don't get a bus.  We don't get a bus and don't have sidewalks on top of crossing two dangerous roads.  Maybe some schools get it but not all.[/quote]

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When my kid is in high school she will have to cross University Blvd, a six lane road where multiple pedestrians have been killed, in order to get to school.

If you look at the walk zones on the interactive boundary tool for the Woodward study it is bizarre how small the walk zone is for Whitman. No, it's not because there are more dangerous roads there. Yes, River Road is dangerous, but so is University Blvd.[/quote]

One of the unfortunate things about these boundary studies is that they are just using the [i]existing[/i] walk zones, rather than assessing whether they could be improved.[/quote]

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