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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am voting for Option 3 along with a bunch of other people I know. Makes the most send to address racial inequities and demographic changes. Kids are very resilient. It’s not as big of a deal to have split articulation and bussing.It may actually be good for your kid.[/quote]

lol. Trying to stir things up, right?  Nothing about option 3 will actually fix any issues. Please tell me how bussing kids around and mixing them together, will actually help the majority of these low performing students ?  It’s all optics.  The money should be spent  on more programs and tutoring to help these kids; also on addressing home-life issues.  Really, everything starts at HOME. If kids don’t have involved parents holding them accountable and supporting their academic development from a young age, the majority won’t go on to be very successful students. [/quote]
dp.. let me start off by stating that Option 3 is ridiculous.   Expecting low income kids to take a longer bus ride to school (that starts at 7:40am) is cruel.  A lot of these kids already have a harder time at home, and expecting them to get up earlier to make MCPS DEI people feel better about themselves is cruel.  Not to mention the higher transportation cost to the school, funds that could be used to hire more teachers.  FWIW, I grew up lower income (immigrant family).

That said, there are some studies that have found that low income kids can do better in schools that don't have a very high FARMs rate. It's not because they become high achieving by osmosis, but more that the school probably has more challenging classes, less behavioral issues, and high achieving academic peers.  Years ago when there was another boundary study here, someone provided a link that showed that low income kids do best when the FARMs rate at the school is less than 30%.[/quote]

+1 the benefits to low income kids are very obvious. Low income kids aren't that different from high income kids. For the same reason high income parents don't want to send their kids to schools with concentrated poverty, low income kids benefit from not being in concentrated poverty. But of course to justify segregation, high income parents convince themselves that low income kids are all the same - not smart, don't want to learn, and are all disruptive. Smh[/quote]

This is odd.  While acknowledging that low income kids do better in places with fewer low income kids, you are saying people
Shouldn’t stereotype low income kids.[/quote]

Maybe Google "concentrated poverty" and you will understand. Or don't and continue sounding incredibly ignorant.[/quote]

To restate:  you think that low income kids are more likely to have behavioral problems.  And this can be solved by putting them around kids who are less likely to have behavioral problems.[/quote]

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