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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was expecting a range of options on the demographics/equalizing FARMS dimension.  But options 1, 2 and 4 do basically nothing to improve on that front, or in some cases make things worse.  And option 3 is only a moderate improvement, the kind of thing I would have expected as a middle-ground option between "no improvement on demographics/diversity" and "significant improvement on demographics/diversity."

I feel like all the options other than #3 are non-starters. #3 has plenty of flaws but it feels like we need to focus on iterating off of it to make it better.  It's ridiculous to have some schools with 6% FARMS rates and some schools with over 60% FARMS rates (or up to 75% at some middle schools!) and have 3 of the 4 options not do a thing to try to address that. [/quote]

Disasgree. Option 3 will be off the table quickly. Look at how many HS have noncontiguous boundaries. You just can't level the FARMs rates in schools in a county that has so much housing segregation.[/quote]

Yeah. If kids in summit hills (which is going to be expanded in the next 10 years) go to Whitman then kids from Whitman can be bussed to Wheaton. They have to commit to something based on geographies and then level the resources based on FARMS rates to balance more. [/quote]

I don't understand busing kids from [b]Summit Hills[/b] to Whitman - those kids go to BCC now and BCC needs the diversity they provide.  Even BCC is a long way for the Summit Hills kids, but at least they get to go to a neighborhood school from K-2 (Rosemary Hills) and they can take 1 bus ride along East West Highway to get back and forth to school when they can't use a school bus.  I can't imagine how they are going to get home from afterschool activities from Whitman.  [/quote]

Summit Hills doesn't go to B-CC. The kids who get bused to CCES live in the Barringtons. That's the dividing line between B-CC and, I believe, Einstein. Summit Hills is a bit farther east on East-West Highway. [/quote]

Summit Hills goes to RHES and CCES for ES. Currently, it is zoned to SCMS and B-CC. You can put it into the school assignment tool to see.

The proposal is to rezone Summit Hills to Whitman under option 3.  [/quote]

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