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That's not quite true.

County funding and resources and curriculum standards for schools is uniform across the board. What made River Hill more desirable than Wilde Lake was market forces driven by the people themselves. The county didn't set up River Hill / Clarksville to become a high end district, [b]it naturally evolved that way[/b]. The same for the Columbia districts themselves. So the county didn't make River Hill a prestigious high school any more it made Wilde Lake a less than desirable school (actually, Wilde Lake is perfectly fine). It was the individual actions of homeowners and people's own decisions that led to River Hill being River Hill today. What the county is doing is interfering with the individual decisions and market forces by abruptly distorting it.

If we want to accept your theory, we could also argue that there's a strong case to be made that the county acted in bad faith to the River Hill homeowners. A government does not exist in isolation of the people, it's supposed to represent the people but clearly the county is not representing the affected families and homeowners either.[/quote]

There is NOTHING about land use that "naturally evolves."

As for bad faith - maybe the property owners of River Hill believed that they would never be rezoned. Maybe that was even officially the Howard County government position at one time, I don't know. But circumstances are subject to change. Rezoning, by itself, does not constitute bad faith. Not when it rezones people who don't own property, not when it rezones people who believe that their properties will gain value, and not when it rezones people who believe that their properties will lose value.

You don't have a right to socioeconomically-segregated public schools. You just don't.[/quote]

You know, poor kids don't have a right to go to school with richer kids. They just don't.

I'm only saying this to show that the issue of trying to change school demographics is a complicated one because you can't argue for it from a "rights" perspective either way. [/quote]

All kids - rich and poor - have a right to equal opportunity. And you don't have equal opportunity in segregated schools.[/quote]

Kids self segregate in non-segregated schools anyway and the test scores remain the same. Rich kids aren't hanging out with the poor kids.  This has nothing to do with color and everything to do with money. [/quote]

So true.  [/quote]

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