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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still think it's not happening after the MCCPTA CIP Chair testified for it last year before the Board of Education?  Read the story in the new Bethesda Magazine (not available on line or I'd post a link). They are definitely headed in that direction.

Why? Because they (County Council, Board of Education and Superintemdent Smith) believe it will solve the opportunity gap.[/quote]

It's worth reading the Bethesda magazine article to get a sense of the thinking of the leaders we have in place.  I find it puzzling and disturbing that Floreen and others think there's some great virtue in trying to force a demographic distribution at each school that mirrors overall county composition.  First, the composition of Montgomery county is different from Maryland, and different than the overall US.  Why is is so important for local schools to reflect the arbitrary demographic composition of MoCo?
Second, having ethnic/economic heterogeneity across neighborhoods is true the world over.  I fail to see this is as a problem that requires sub optimal and costly transportation choices for many thousands of kids and parents.

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