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It seems to me that people are making assumptions that the school board can control certain things which they cannot.  In MoCo, housing values are based on schools.  [b]The better the schools[/b], the higher the housing costs.  Redistribute an ES with a lot of minorities to a W school and over time the neighborhoods that feed into that ES will trend wealthier and the poorer current residents will be forced out due to increasing rents.  If they want more diversity in the W schools then the county should buy large tracts of land and build low income high rise apartment blocks in places like Potomac and Bethesda.  I’m all for that, get low income people into the higher performing schools.  I’m not for that.  I’m not for creating future islands of wealth in a misguided attempt at social engineering that’s doomed to failure.  It feels a little bit like the school board wants to play a game of housing lottery.  I would wager some of their houses will magically appreciate from the final decision.[/quote]

"The better the schools" = the fewer poor/black/Latino kids at the school = the more segregated the schools.

People who say that the school board can't do anything about segregated schools because it's all about housing are defending segregated schools.[/quote]
So, what's your solution?  Busing?  People who keep saying that others are defending segregation by saying that it's the housing policy that is the issue are not providing answers, just accusing others of "racism".[/quote]

My kids already get to school by bus. How about yours?

I support the boundary analysis MCPS has commissioned, which will examine ways to increase capacity and reduce demographic disparities by adjusting boundaries.[/quote]

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