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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea that MoCo schools will get better by spreading a dwindling supply of affluent white students even thinner is patently absurd, as the experience in PG demonstrates.  Schoos are a very crude tool to further such social engineering goals.  Better to spend money making Silver Spring and Wheaton nicer to attract people, rather than messing around with the neighborhood schools, which will just send families to other jurisdictions.  [/quote]

Though actually we do social engineering all the time. Zoning is a prime example. Also school districts/boundaries, road construction, and mortgage lending policies. But these examples typically help the haves, and so we don't call them social engineering. We only call it social engineering if it's supposed to help the have-nots.[/quote]

Omit the phrase "social engineering" from the prior post, then, and it still holds equally true.

Places like MoCo are not as liberal as its residents like to think, nor does MoCo exist in a vacuum.  The problem with Dan Reed's analysis is that it doesn't acknowledge the other options available to MoCo families.  [/quote]

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