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You can't draw the boudries large enough to pick up measurable poor kids for schools like Churchill, Westland and the like. The Elementary schools are even tighter clusters. The schools that can pick up more poor kids are the schools around poor kids. Careful what you wish for on the east side of the county.

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What does "careful what you wish for on the east side of the county" mean? Please explain.[/quote]

Many of the eastern county schools were also gerrymandered to have some with mostly SFH, some mostly cheap apts. Redefining boundaries in a school like Potomac elementary may fudge 5% of the population due to the complete lack of proximity to any FRAMs or ESOL kids.  Schools like Sligo Creek Elementary or Woodlin, slight changes can redefine the entire make up of the school due to the density of the population on that side of the county.  Make no mistake, schools like that have way more chances of fundamentally changes than most west county schools with any boundary studies.  The western schools aren't that gerrymandered, they didn't have to be and changing them would require deep changes to multiple things. You could flick a pen at Sligo creak and increase its FARMs kids by a factor of 7.

How about fixing the completely bogus New Hampshire Estates boundaries and sending those kids to Takoma Elementary or Flora Singer?  My point was don't assume Gerrymandering is unique to the west county when it was more wildly used in the east due to panicked parents over the decades.  [/quote]

There might be people who are clamoring to change school boundaries in the western part of the county while opposing any changes to school boundaries in the eastern part of the county, but I have never encountered any. Have you? And if so, how/when/where?

It would be geographically absurd to send kids from New Hampshire Estates ES to Flora Singer ES. Look at a map.

Also, iif the New Hampshire Estates boundaries are completely bogus, so are the Stone Mill ES boundaries and the Seven Locks ES boundaries and the Lakewood ES boundaries and...

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/StoneMillES.pdf
http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/SevenLocksES.pdf
http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/LakewoodES.pdf
http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/NewHampshireEstatesOakViewES.pdf

To say nothing of the [/quote]

You are right of course but you are looking at merely the spirt of the intent and not focusing enough on the ease and cost of transition. It will simply be easier to break up the gerrymandering on the eastern half of the county due to proximity. They could undo the legacy protectionism in the east across the elementary and middle level. Rezone a few ridiculously zoned school that feed the Ws. That would boost the consortiums with middle class, be a big splashing emotional win for the papers, relieve crowding at the W’s, add a W high school to the DCC (Woodward) and watch MCPS spike the football as a success. Mean while the western county is basically left alone save for the people on the edges (that nobody cares about), all while the poverty is load balanced across the neighborhood schools attached to the consortiums.

A win for all?[/quote]

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