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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"my opinion is that it would be nice if Montgomery County public schools were not so segregated by race and income. High-poverty schools are bad for the education of poor children. "

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I don't want to go to a W school; what I would like to see though is less extremes [b]where the county permits schools like the Ws to have like 90%+ kids not on FARMS and other schools the exact opposite rather than proactively try to mix them more. [/b]You can then provide in school the right targeting of rigor to the various groups that are ready for it, but you would also have a broader parent pool to pull on. Given how lop sided the county currently is you could start that process by qualifying FARMs kids to be eligible to go to schools that have extremely low FARM rates and bus them (voluntarily) to those schools. [/quote]

Exactly.  And "permits" is the correct word.  The status quo is a choice.  It is a choice to segregate the county by income.  It is a choice not to mix housing so that classrooms are likewise mixed, socioeconomically.  These are choices.  The results are extremely problematic.[/quote]

How is housing a choice?  It seems to me that most land has already been purchased by private owners.  When the private person sells, they want what the market will bear.  How could the county step in to mix housing?  How would they afford it?[/quote]

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