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Already stated in the PP. And isn't that obvious? Any other rules that you think would work better than this (other than merit based schools)? Schools with racial quota? Remember, we are talking about rules, that is something that can be followed with very little personal choices from the administrators. Things like "we should make the school diverse" are not rules. They are slogans.

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No, it's not obvious. That's why I'm asking. [/quote]

[b]So do you have any other obvious rules can be used instead?[/b] Again, RULES, not something that different school administrators can easily do differently by just following the "spirit".
If not, it becomes obvious that we should just keep using the current rules.[/quote]

Under the current rules, right here in MCPS, plenty of students already do not go to their "neighborhood schools".[/quote]

Please elaborate - other than merit based schools/programs.
Exceptions always exist - as long as there are good reasons and as long as they are limited to "exceptions" (that is, statistically insignificant, which is clearly not something useful to achieve "diversity").
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There are many MCPS schools located fairly close to their own boundary lines. The effect is that kids living just across the line are zoned to a different school than the one that may be closest to their house.
There are also MCPS school zones which have components which are not contiguous to each other, such that kids from the further away zones are bussed to their school, sometimes passing other schools along the way.[/quote]

Example -- we live in a neighborhood that was once part of QO cluster.  Now it is part of NW cluster.  We are being considered as part of the boundary changes for Seneca Valley HS.  So while none of these schools is all that far from our house - you could argue we don't go to our "neighborhood" HS which would be QO (closest).  I don't think this is the only example of this kind of thing....[/quote]

When I say "neighborhood", it implies the neighborhood zoned by the county to go into that school
I am aware of situations like that. I am not saying I support those zoning decisions - but those are what they are. I do not see a good reason to change them.

My opinion is simple: to change what things are right now, one needs a strong reason. Neither "increasing diversity" nor "deceasing diversity" is a good reason to me to initiate a change like that.

I just think people are too obsessed about tuning the racial diversity in schools. It is not something we should try to control. Instead, one should simply focus on eliminating/preventing policies that discriminate against races.

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