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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] No, bussing is not an option for most of the county. The same bus makes three rounds a morning (HS, MS, then ES) and in the afternoon. Going all over the 500 sq mile county for a diversity performance experiment is asinine. [/quote]

Which is why nobody, but NOBODY, is proposing it. Notwithstanding this fact, there are a lot of people spending a lot of energy fighting something that NOBODY IS PROPOSING.[/quote]
Yes yes, pls shut up everybody and ignore the 2019 board mtg topics and $$million study on boundary diversity solutions.  La la la.

I’d rather fight it now in the 3rd inning (and yes Board and central office already moved it to the third inning) than believe the political leftist board and wait until inning 9 when they’re shoving it down everybody’s throat like they have all the other terrible initiatives, decisions and changes the last 10 years.

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Agree - we must [b]fight to end[/b] the longstanding de facto [b]segregation[/b] that exists in this county.[/quote]

Allow me to respectfully explain why this is nonsensical. Let’s focus on the mid Atlantic, out popualtion has been 80% white 15% black and 5% other races. So traditionally most areas will be super majority white not because of de facto segregation but because most are white. State institutionalized segregation, reeling, all the rest ended long ago. However 15% black remains so unless you ensure every block cluster has 15% blacks, you could make this claim but it’s just a word because people are free to live where they want. Now there is a big caveat there, they are free to live where they want and can afford. Also demographics are changing. Large influxes of migrants predominantly Hispanic but also Asian have changed that. While our population remains 15% black, we are maybe 30% Hispanic and Asian. So 55% white is a smaller majority so we should see less pockets of high density white populations and we are but...

Migrants typically have less accumulated wealth so they will congregate initially in areas of more affordable housing. As they accumulate wealth they move beyond. Same happened with the immigration waves in the 1890s through 1920s. Except now there is no legal segregation keeping these people out of specific areas. My neighborhood is predominately white but less so. 25 years ago about 90% now 70% or so. Seems normal as demographics slowly change we see a slow change in neighborhoods with a delay to allow for wealth accumulation. There is nothing insidious here, is there??[/quote]

The white population of MCPS students is something like 35%. The PP had a point whereas yours isn't relevant. [/quote]

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