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[quote=Anonymous]The HCPSS leans heavily towards balancing by socioeconomic levels.  They try to reduce the number of FARMS students in any given school.  They try to balance out by moving lower income/less expensive housing octagons to schools with a higher average income/more expensive housing school.  They also try to move higher income/more expensive octagons to lower average income zoned schools.  It's the latter that tends to get the complaints.  People don't like to buy more expensive housing zoned for a "stronger" school and then get bussed to a different "weaker" school.  You have fewer complaints from the former, but sometimes those do generate complaints.  Often the people who live in the lower income/less expensive housing areas are working multiple jobs or have transportation issues.  A household that is sharing one vehicle and using public transportation cannot handle kids being bussed further away from home.  Often it makes it much harder for those kids to participate in after school activities.  Those parents find it harder to get from work to a more distant school for evening or parent-teacher activities.  And so forth.
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