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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is you have more of a buy in when you have kids traveling further distances for “good” schools. When you make kids travel farther distances for “bad” schools that’s a problem as the trade off is just one failed social experiment.[/quote]
Lets put Langley Park in the Whitman boundary.  MCPS loves islands and it would help the Blair overcrowding issues.[/quote]

The Woodward reopening will provide some opportunities to tweak the HS boundaries and it will provide more capacity overall in each of these clusters. However, the downsides for lower SES kids travelling long distances are at least as big as the reverse. It hurts attendance, it cuts down on opportunities for afterschool tutoring or extracurricular participation, worst of all it's hard for families to be present at discussions around the curriculum or college admissions process etc etc. I have a kid at BCC and I'm amazed at how many parent info nights there are, all optional of course; but a lot easier to get to if you have a car and a flexible schedule and live very close by.

I'm not advocating for any solution here, I'm just pointing out that this is super complicated, with a lot of tradeoffs to every proposition. (And that the long term policy really should focus on developing more affordable housing in the areas near where the "good" schools are located.)[/quote]

Woodward reopening will impact the HS within a couple of miles of it namely WJ, Einstein, BCC and possibly other W's. It could indirectly affect other schools in that moving more kids out of schools like Einstein that are currently overcapacity might create room there to its east.,[/quote]

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