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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Severna park was in phase 1. There was not much pushback in that phase.

Crofton IS in phase 2 and the residents there are actually fighting the redistricting to try to KEEP the poorest/most diverse kids in the Crofton feeder (Nantucket elementary.)  The redistricting as proposed has not at all been about diversifying school populations, which you seem to suggest.  In the case of Crofton it would have effectively reduced the FARMS rate at CHS and made it whiter.  [/quote]

Yeah but majority white neighborhoods in Crofton Woods area stay in Crofton instead of moving to South River. The overarching theme in Crofton is “leave us alone.” [/quote]

South river is “whiter” (70 vs 50) than Crofton !  So they are actually choosing more diversity.  But yeah, most feeder schools students want to stay with their classmates - that makes sense logically and logistically.

Anyway the premise that it’s about white people fighting integration which the op claimed is completely false, and in fact the opposite. [/quote]

It is. Maybe not in Crofton, but in other areas it is. There is a big fight being put up against redistricting Annapolis students to South River. The South River parents have been loud in Edgewater area Facebook groups saying “those Bywater kids” are going to come to their schools and bring crime to the South River and decrease test scores there. Black families in Annapolis are protesting against the redistricting saying that South River is racist and they don’t want to send their kids there.

The superintendent bowed down to these racist concerns by proposing to move APEX magnet kids at Annapolis High to Severn Run High instead, which wouldn’t solve overcrowding but rather simply move it to Severn Run (recent board meeting found that Severn Run is already almost capacity). [/quote]

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