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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly -- I think they need to at least consider this option.  Some schools are massively overcrowded while other are under-utilized.  Why build new schools when they could potentially solve the problem with redistricting. Isn't that a more cost effective solution?[/quote]

Where is MCPS building a new school where they could solve the problem with boundary changes? Could you provide one specific example, please?[/quote]

The recent expansion to Westbrook could be used to reduce Wood Acres overcrowding.  Note that this would move kids from the Pyle/Whitman feeder track to the Westland/BCC feeder track, which would make many Wood Acres parents spontaneously combust.  [/quote]

And of course you feel they would spontaneously combust because they would be upset about a school with more brown people?  That's the only reason people act, right?

I'd be opposed to that because we are a 10 minute walk to Whitman, whereas it would be at least a 20 minute bus ride to get to BCC.  Would you like that switch or think it makes sense?[/quote]

Yes, I think the "one district" point of view undervalues the community-building aspect of schools.  People want to walk, but it is more than that, they want to feel a part of a local community.  I wonder what would happen if the first step in considering boundaries was to draw a two mile radius around a school that would result in automatic assignment, unless the address fell into 2 circles, or no circles.   [/quote]

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