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It's not just a boundary change if you move away from neighborhoood schools to try to counteract housing segregation. [b]It's a whole new experiment[/b], and has some real challenges from where it has been tried:  
neighborhood socioeconomics are constantly shifting, so how many times are you willing to make kids change schools to hit target numbers?  
Special programs like free breakfast/aftercare can't be realistically implemented in every school, so at risk kids would lose out and/or face greater stigma.
At risk kids would be 'left behind' when placed in a school full of more advanced peers.
Loss of cohesive parent/neighborhood involvement in schools due to random distribution of parents.

The current situation of low performance for low ses schools is not great either, obviously.  Failing schools should not be tolerated or rewarded.  But we know school choice/incentive programs (like magnets) can turn around struggling schools.  Instead of effectively demolishing the low ses schools and just shipping these  kids off to be a minority in a wealthy school, it lures and serves gifted kids and gives the school (and neighborhood) a chance to slowly build up a stronger reputation.  The fact that mcps isnt focusing on that solution and instead moving towards 'forced ses bussing' is short sighted and Seems like it will be yet another failed top-down theoretical social experiment performed on these kids and parents.  
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School districts have been doing this for at least 60 years (and also did it for decades before that, for the opposite purpose of [i]maintaining[/i] segregated schools). MCPS has been doing it for at least 30 years. It's not a whole new experiment. It's not even an old experiment.

Also, nobody is moving towards "forced SES bussing". That is not a thing. Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.[/quote]

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