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Sure, but what is the negative impact of minimizing busing?  And can the saved funds from minimizing busing be used to address those impacts?  Seems like the biggest problem MCPS has overall is not enough resources to do all it needs to do to meet the needs of the kids.  So why opt to spend money on busing unless there is a truly compelling reason?[/quote]

Everything is a trade-off, eh? Minimizing busing is good, maximizing socioeconomic segregation is bad. Ideally you will have just enough busing for just enough non-segregation, but optimization works a lot better in computer models than in real life with real people.[/quote]

But does busing actually address socioeconomic integration?   The research is pretty darned mixed. [/quote]

I actually think all it does is hide poor people in areas where the metrics wouldn't show their failings. Put a handful of low performers in BCC and it knocks it down a notch but the reason becomes muddled. I would love to see how many of the dropouts over the last 40 years came from RCF. Not all for sure but I would put my 401k on a disproportionate amount. It actually might put additional pressures like the natural (keeping up with the jones) will be impossible on so many levels.

Save for some outliers, I am pretty sure it is the people that make the poverty and the recidivism for their children is pretty high no matter where they are. Breakout a dropout factory and you just have a bunch of kids dropping out at different schools. A few of the better ones might use the opportunity but I am pretty sure the bad kids will pull down the lower functioning rich kids making it a net gain of nothing.

Even the most progressive of urban settlers trumpet opinions like "the school might look bad but the rich white kids do fine", "low test scores are just the poor neighborhood kids". These opinions show that even they think mixing the kids does little but adjust the schools test results downward. Concentrations of poverty are simply more apparent and harder to hide. I fear by mixing it all together we will end up making nowhere nice. [/quote]

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