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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate when rich educated people pretend that poor performers will magically become top performers by getting bussed to schools with high performers.  What a hoot. Where in the world has that ever happened?[/quote]

I hate when people claim that this is about test scores.[/quote]

Give me a school with all poor kids or minorities that have top test scores and I'd send my kid there.  Unfortunately, it's like a rainbow unicorn.  The fact that I want my kid with high performers doesn't make me racist or elitist.  I work very hard with my kid.[/quote]

So you'd be fine with poor kids or minorities, if they had top test scores. But they don't, so you're not.[/quote]

I want my kids surrounded by hard working/high performing kids. I don't want my kids surrounded by kids who aren't. [/quote]

But that's not how public schools work here. In the public school you're zoned for, your kids are surrounded by kids who live in the area zoned for the public school you're zoned for. Some of these kids work hard, some of them don't. Some of these kids have high test scores, some of them don't.[/quote]

Sure it is.

Of course one may want this, someone else may want that. We don't always get what we want. Usually we live with what we have because it takes a lot of effort to change things.

However, if people are proposing changes that may go further against what we want, wouldn't it be natural that we oppose the changes?

So my kids are surrounded by other kids zoned in the same area. Some of them work hard, some not.
I don't want to make an effort to change that. But if someone is making a proposal to change that and I anticipate it is changing for worse, I may oppose that.

Very simple, isn't it?

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