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I do not care about segregation that happens because of school boundaries. It is not happening because there are different schools for black and whites.

[b]You will not change the poor performance of the kids who come from impoverished backgrounds by sending them to "W" schools. That is crazy thinking. You cannot fix the home situation of these kids. Home-life and level of parents education is a very big factor that MCPS has no control of. 
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Here is what I think will work -
1) Send kids to their neighborhood schools.

2) Increase the number of HGC and magnet schools around the county.

3) Fail the kids who do not perform well in ES and MS. Let them repeat the class and put additional resources there to make them succeed.  If there is no improvement after 2   years of repeating a class - the parents can pay fees for the child.   
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I agree with this, and really don't care for the tone of argument that depicts these schools as under performing.  There are pockets of bright kids at all these schools, in fact, there is a wonderful mentoring program at one of the NEC schools that involve top performing students helping students that need academic assistance. Dan Reed, how about you report on this next time?  :) There are great things happening at these schools. If you're not a part of the community (meaning you are not a current student, parent of a student or staff member, alumni does not count :) ), please stop spitting out data left and right, spinning it, and then coming up with some poor ideas on how to solve the so called "problem".[/quote]

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