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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I agree, but I suggest that busing be designed so that no elementary school has more than 20% of students on FARMS.[/b] That means that some low SES kids get bused to Potomac, Chevy  Chase, and Bethesda and some high SES kids get bused to Silver Spring, Wheaton, Gaithersburg.
All middle schools and high schools should either have a magnet program, immersion program, or some other special program to attract high performing students and those that have potential, but have not yet been motivated to highly perform. There should be some programs that you must test into and some that are purely lottery based.

Of course, this will never happen because high SES parents would vote out any school board members who dared suggest it. Starr would be ridden out of town on a rail for even hinting that their snowflakes might rub elbows with a poor kid.

So the gap will remain.

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MCPS as a whole has 35% of students on FARMs.  So it's a great goal, but mathematically it wouldn't work, even if it were politically feasible, which it is not (<--understatement).[/quote]

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