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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at school decision outcomes. BCC does not do as well as Whitman if that is a point of the data you are interested in.[/quote]

We will see how “better” Whitman truly ranks when it actually has a measurable FARMS rate after this redistricting. [/quote]

Even if they adjust the boundary it will have minimal impact. There just aren't boatloads of high-FARMs near Whitman. Even if they managed to double Whitman's FARMS and that's a HUGE IF, it would have almost no impact and remain one of the lowest FARMS schools in the county.[/quote]

But it would still cause Whitman to drop in ranking because the only reason it ranks high is because virtually no disadvantaged students attend that school. If the FARMS rate doubles, then Whitman will easily drop to #6 to #10 in Maryland and stay there. [/quote]

Not PP you were responding to. We can all agree that poorer families means lesser academic achievement in general. This is just theoretical for Whitman, since there is earthly way for Whitman to increase FARMS rate measurably with any boundary change ([b]no one wants busing[/b], so that won't happen).
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There already is busing. If you get school bus service, to a school that is not the nearest school, and you want to stay at that school, then you want busing.[/quote]

You know what is meant by busing in this thread's context: using a bus to transport lower-income students from a location that geographically should not be within the cluster, for diversity purposes. Parents of all income levels are opposed to changing the boundaries to include more of that, because traffic is bad enough, no one wants their kid for long periods of time on a bus, and families want to feel close to their neighborhood school (some parents have no car, and don't want to trek across the county to get to school meetings).

We are not talking about busing to special programs, CES or magnets.
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