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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about Howard but it is 100% true that kids segregate in diverse schools with Montgomery County. The PBES/TP/Blair cluster is terrible in this regard. The white families seem to only be willing to live there if they keep a guarantee of being away from the rest of the student body.

Rezoning has nothing to do with building an integrated diverse community. Rezoning is an attempt to balance financial equity and keep areas with lower performing schools from falling further behind. School administrators like it because it helps slow down schools falling into the bottom level rankings of 4 and below which people avoid like the plague and become an eyesore of why your school is failing. Move enough rich kids in and that 4 school becomes a 5. Administrators can pat themselves on the back for raising the performance of their school even though the poor kids are failing at the same rate as before.

Like it or not, people choose their housing based on the scores of the schools. If you can keep the scores up, you can stabilize property values. What is happening to rezoning is a decision that what the wealthy areas have to lose is less than what the poor areas would lose if they continue to go down.

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The trouble is, many of the wealthy will take the loss and move or go private.  eventually you will run out of White and Asian kids to bus in.  That's what's happening in the DCC in MCPS - they desperately want "diversity" but there aren't enough Whites and Asians to spread around to the 5 schools.  So, test scores continue to decline and Kennedy has a 3/10 ranking, Wheaton HS 4/10, Northwood HS 4/10 Einstein 5/10 and Blair 6/10.  You will notice that this is in the same order as the number of Whites and Asians.[/quote]

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