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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn't that the parents at the W schools don't want minorities.  They don't want any poor people.  They are not fighting racial diversity; they are fighting economic diversity.  They (wrongly) believe that poorer families don't deserve access to better resources and better schools.  They want to keep those things for themselves.  [/quote]

I don’t think they believe poorer families don’t deserve access to better schools, I think they think if you overwhelm their current schools with a lot of students in poverty they won’t be “better schools” anymore.  Diversity is good, but there is a level of poverty (often called “concentrated poverty”) that overwhelms schools’ ability to do their job well.  What that level is, well, people have different ideas about that.  I haven’t seen consistency in the studies I’ve reviewed.  Some put it at over 90% (which none of Montgomery County needs to be at but a handful of schools currently may be), others at 40%, which is more likely to expect many schools in the County to be at even after equity informed boundary changes.  Some studies define “low poverty” schools at &lt;20%, which a bunch of schools are now but none would be if all schools matched up better with County demographics.  I think the question parents ask themselves is “at what level of concentrated poverty is my child’s education going to suffer?”[/quote]

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