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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because parents like myself would take their kids out of school sooner than see them bussed to some failing school in Wheaton as part of some social experiment.

Anyone who lives in a million dollar house in Chevy Chase has a choice - and most of us choose to support public schools. But if you started bussing to radically change the demographics, then we would just go private. You wouldn't eliminate the attainment gap, you would make it much worse.[/quote]

I have to agree.  The higher SES folks can afford to send their children to private.  If you tell them that they have to go to a lower performing school than they are currently zoned for, most probably will.  They what...you will have the lower SES folks bussed into a building in Bethesda, Potomac, Chevy Chases but their classmates will also be bussed in lower SES students.  The parent support, motivated students will flee and you'll be left with a Wheaton HS demographic and motivation in the Churchill building.[/quote]

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