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You do understand that busing kids around to different schools will do nothing to change the composition of neighborhoods, right? For that, you need to undertake the much tougher task of getting the county to do something about affordable housing.[/quote]

Kids are currently getting bused around to different schools.

Also, it is conventional wisdom that one important factor in real estate prices is the perceived goodness of the schools the neighborhood is assigned to. If you believe that's false, all the better.[/quote]

Not disputing that kids are getting bused to different schools already. Let's just not make those commutes longer, and more expensive to pay for.

I agree one important factor in real estate prices is the perceived goodness of the schools in the neighborhood. I also believe that most people would prefer to attend their neighborhood school than to have their kid ride a bus for long periods of the day.

[b]For the school officials to throw up their hands and essentially say they don't have the capability of making schools in poor neighborhoods better, while keeping them neighborhood schools, is a total cop-out, not to mention an indictment of the idea that the quality of teachers, educational supports and a good curriculum matter. [/b]

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Fortunately, nobody has done that.

People who want the potential for shorter school trips and more walk-to-school trips should, rationally, support the boundary analysis.[/quote]

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