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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting?  Does anyone have concrete info?  (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)[/quote]

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment[/quote]

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white[/quote]

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.[/quote]

The difference is that's voluntary. If you don't want to be bused, don't apply to the magnet. I lived within walking distance of a W school and chose not to apply to Blair because I didn't want to sit on a bus every day.

Redistricting is different -- the choice to be bused is not voluntary.[/quote]

Sure it is. You may choose (a) school bus transportation to your assigned public school (b) some other form of transportation to your assigned public school (c) private school (d) home school.[/quote] Are people getting dumber or are the topics becoming so complex that they average person struggles with multiple paths of basic reasoning?

How difficult is it to understand that choosing to drive miles away to a magnet program is different from maybe a 5 to 10 minute drive to your local school? Very different from being told [b]you have to bus very far away[/b]. It's not just that you are getting into a bus already so it doesn't matter. There is a time and distance component that people will factor. [/quote]

The point is that you actually don't have to bus. You have choices.[/quote]

NP. In fairness to the PP, the further away the school, the harder alternative it becomes to avoid putting your kids on the bus. I may be able to drive my kids to school down the street on my way to work, but I can't drive them 30 min in the other direction. And "you can private school or home school" are not really acceptable responses for parents concerned about getting their kids safely to school. We owe all children a safe public education, and it doesn't come off well to be dismissive of anyone's reasonable concerns just because you assume they're wealthy.

That said, I think there's way too much hysteria surrounding this issue. (And I had a friend killed in a school bus accident when we were in elementary school, so I'm not oblivious to the concerns). I just don't think, realistically, that there is a likelihood of kids being bused en masse across the county in any direction. It would be cost-prohibitive, bad for the environment, and bad for traffic. And unpopular - no one, rich, poor, or in-between, wants their kids spending an hour on the bus each way.

I think what we're going to see are some boundary adjustments to better utlize space and mix people up some but within contiguous communities. I don't think[/quote]

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