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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:

I don' t know much about Cabin Branch area, but Gibbs ES is interesting.

It's 1/3 FARMs. Whites and Hispanics are about equal - under 20%. Asians and blacks make up the majority - at under 30%. So I would say it's diverse on many levels. But I'm sure the county disaggregated the data by comparing FARMs to race.

You can see what MCPS did, here.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/pl...g/UpcountyHSBoundaryStudy.aspx

The PPs who are saying that MCPS rezoned white and Asian-American students from Rocky Hill MS to Neelsville MS are basically saying, "I don't acknowledge the existence of the people in my community who are black or Hispanic."[/quote]

This document certainly makes it look like the only reason for the moves from RH/ Neelsville and Neelsville/RH are demographic. It more than doubled the Asian and white students at Neelsville while reducing AA and hispanic kids. It didn't change capacity for any of the kids and I don't think anyone is claiming that kids who live in the Cabin Branch neighborhood will be assigned as walkers to Neelsville.

As to whether Clarksburg is diverse -it depends on your definition. Does diversity include all races or just AA/Hispanic? Gibbs and Clarksburg ES are far more diverse than many other MCPS schools while Neelsville ES feeders waere far less diverse if you include all races. If you only include AA/hispanic kids as qualifying to be diverse then it reverses.

From the data it certainly appears that Gibbs and Clarksburg offered neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of Asian student and some white students which MCPS wanted to ship into a lower ranked school while Neellsville had many AA/Hispanic kids that MCPS wanted to ship into a higher performing school. An interesting note is that any of these parents could bring forward a complaint regardless of race.

The former Neelsville's kids could bring an appeal/suit claiming that they were rezoned for racial balancing and harmed by having to travel a longer distance to school or leave their community. The AA or hispanic in the Cabin Branch area could also join the complaint/appeal that is already been made that this area was targeted for having a high concentration of asian/white students. It doesn't really matter whether they are asian or white or AA or hispanic.

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