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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is, this isn't even "white flight" from diverse schools. This is our crappy school board moving boundaries to make schools less diverse.

People say being on the school board is a thankless task. I can't think of anything ours has done to deserve thanks. [/quote]

Area school boards don't follow a consistent pattern. Sometimes they will act to try to increase the number of high SES families at a school with a lot of FARMS/ESOL students (South Lakes 2008). Sometimes they will take actions that drive up those rates at such schools (Annandale 2011, Wakefield 2016).  It usually is a function of responding to constituents who make a lot of noise and successfully engage SB members.  Very few boundary shifts are popular and people can't assume that the School Board is going to move lower SES kids to Yorktown and Langley, or higher SES kids to Lee or Wakefield, just because someone thinks diversity is good.

You also have to ask why it's that important to spread white kids around when we are talking about jurisdictions that are majority minority already.[/quote]

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