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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why isn't geography the only driving factor in boundary options? Why do they always want to bus kids further and further out of their community? We're upcounty but these "options" are ridiculous. [/quote]

Demographics.

I forget what corresponds with which but a couple of posts mentioned which option fulfills which goal.  ie little disruption (is option 1), balancing demographics, which probably includes SES/FARMS, capacity, etc.

In one of the recent rezonings at Howard County, one of the goals was to make sure each school didn't have a FARMS rate above a certain percentage or something like that.[/quote]

But...with Wootton, aren't they moving in a Potomac school and moving out some of their lower-income (by Wootton standards) neighborhoods? Is this helping anything demographically? Is it really a better option than doing nothing to Wootton when it currently has no capacity issues?[/quote]

That's a question I have too.  Where the area where some of the options has splitting students from a neighborhood from the rest of the elementary school actually has some townhomes that are cheaper than some other ones in that school zone.

So they're proposing to move that neighborhood with the relatively lower cost townhomes to a new school that also has several other townhome, condo and apartment communities feeding into it. (based on a quick look, I didn't really dig into it)

I think everyone agrees that the proposed options don't make sense.

But just saying one of their rationales of the bussing around is to spread/even out demographics.

This is the copy and paste of another comment that described the goal of each option:

#1 is all about stability, #2 about utilization, #3 about demographics, and #4 about proximity[/quote]

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