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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this was really just about school overcrowding, it seems like the problem could be easily solved by splitting the students among Stoddert, Janney and Hyde (keeping sibs together of course). families could get to Janney or Hyde via the Wisc Ave buses. Between three schools and the fact that all kids won't be the same age, it seems that schools could absorb this. After all, they have to absorb new buildings that are built in their district.

But something tells me it isn't just about school overcrowding...[/quote]

Sorry, but Janney is uber-full already.  Other schools would  a better fit in any case.[/quote]

Oh don't worry Janney.  You are getting your 10%.  Just like the rest of us.   [/quote] don't schools have a capacity limit set by a fire marshall?[/quote]

Boundaries will have to shift to accommodate the at-risk kids.  [/quote]

+1  The Murch, Lafayette, Key, Hearst, Eaton, Stoddert parents are not going to be quiet if Janney is not required to take their 10%.  No more special treatment for Janney.  Parents at the other schools are now better organized because of the recent renovations and can mobilize quickly. [/quote]

The reality is that only Eaton and Hearst have capacity to take the 10% because they have a substantial number of OOB slots that they can play with.  Stoddert has a few OOB but is not in the same category.  Janney, Murch, Key and Lafayette are well over capacity, basically with all IB (Murch may have a small OOB lever to pull.)  So the only way that these schools could deal with the 10% quota students is to re-district.  Where are they going to be re-districted?  To MoCo?!?[/quote]

Nice try.  [b]Murch and Janney are overcrowded in part because their communities have refused to move their boundaries in any meaningful way.  They can't have it both ways. [/b] [/quote]

The Janney community at large was NEVER ASKED about redistricting.   We as a community didn't get a vote.   Most of us were completely in favor of redistricting but it's not like we were polled or that our opinion (as a whole) was taken into account. 
There were less than 10 vocal families (quite a few of them homeowners WITHOUT KIDS AT THE SCHOOL) who escalated things to the very top and got the redistricting stopped. 
There are some 500 families at the school.  Less than 10 of them put an end to the redistricting.   The rest of us were fine with it.  [/quote]

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