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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This concern now feels a bit out of touch with current economic realities of MCPS.  They simply do not have the funds to bus kids longer than required nor to turn potential walkers into bus riders. I do not see them in this economic climate placing diversity creation through busing over concerns such as eliminating overcrowding and geographic proximity.  Yes, I think there will be odd pockets where kids could go almost the same distance to one school or the other where the to parents ‘less desirable’ school is chosen but I do not see walking distance kids to the middle or high school being zoned so they then must bus. The issue likely will be the families that live reasonably near more than one school via bus but are not close enough to either to be walkers. If the change in bus ride time is 5 or 10 minutes more or less to go to one school versus another then I would think this would be where diversity as well as eliminating overcrowding will play out. [/quote]

That's why bussed kids to WJ or BCC who live near Einstein, or the boundaries like Wootton's, where most families live closer to another high-school, need to change.[/quote]

Does Einstein have capacity? Isn’t Woodward going change boundaries throughout WJ and DCC? 
You have an ax to grind with Kensington and that is fine. But really it is time to move on.[/quote]

To support everyone always going to their closest school you have to also support remixing the student population every time they move from ES to MS to HS.  MCPS prioritizes keeping kids together.  Do you think cutting .3 miles off a kids commute is more important than keeping kids with their established cohorts?  Do you see any school district in the country that de-prioritizes keeping kids together in exchange for such small bussing distances?[/quote]

DP. I would like to see more frequent boundary adjustments than MCPS has (or hasn't) been doing. When they lease so many portable classrooms to add on to a school when the next school over has available space, that to me is a waste of our resources. Assess the potential savings by looking at the neighboring schools' space first, and only add portables when truly necessary.[/quote]

+100. Bayard Rustin ES is a perfect example. Opened in 2018 and already has two portables. Anyone care to guess what enrollment looks like at the neighboring schools it pulled from? Boundaries (and MCPS’ refusal to adjust them) are absolutely the problem.  Spending *millions* to lease portables when there are empty seats within a cluster is nonsense. [/quote]

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