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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren't there places where the nearest high school is over four miles away?[/quote]

That is an exception. I meant a general rule. I just do not like busing a long distance as a tool for balancing FARMS.[/quote]

Np I disagree. I don’t think they should let any school get over 15-20% farms.

In my neighborhood there are two elementary schools 1 mile apart. One has only 1m+ sfhs and a few townhouses. The other has 1m homes and then a new apartment complex was built. It’s now 60% farms. I think there would be a massive benefit in balancing the schools. Only the sfhs are within walking distance to both schools. The apartments are already bused from a mile away. [/quote]

What a fantastic example of how out of touch some people on the wealthier side of the county are. “I don’t think they should let any school get over 15-20% FARMS.” And also, we should let them eat cake!

Here in reality, 44% of the students in the county are eligible for FARMS. [/quote]

If the county is 44% FARMS, they should mandate that every school have 44% FARMs. Instead of having one school be 80% FARM and one be 10%. [/quote]

I'd like to see some conceptual school boundaries based on this goal, because my guess is that they would be pretty ridiculous and require way longer bus rides than even its proponents realize.  Because most of the schools with 10% FARMS are not adjacent to schools with 80% FARMS.  There are other schools in the middle, many of which hover around the mean MCPS rates.  There's a reason that no one is seriously proposing this outside of an anonymous message board.[/quote]the FARMS rates for Einstein and Wheaton are 2-3 times that of Walter Johnson which is adjacent to those clusters[/quote]

I'd like to see anyone from WJ cluster going voluntarily to Einstein. Not for a special program but just for the kid to help the school with FARMS rate. [/quote]

If boundaries were voluntary many folks would send their kids to a different high school than the one they are assigned to[/quote]

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