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[quote=Anonymous]People keep talking about "busing" kids across the county, but I don't think that always has to be the case. In the Kojo show, an East Silver Spring parent talked about the inequities/differences in diversity at two k-5 schools/pyramids that are right next to each other: East Silver Spring (k-5) and Takoma Elementary (k-2)/PBES (3-5). In this case, we are not talking about "busing" kids miles away from their homes. These schools are all less than a mile from each other. However the boundaries for TPES/PBES have been deliberately drawn to keep the majority of the high SES families in those two schools. It's also not a surprise that the more affluent schools are also home to a primary magnet program (that no other school in the county has, to my knowledge), a dedicated STEM teacher for grades K-2, and a local CES. East Silver Spring has none of these three programs.

How is this equitable? If the boundaries for these schools were redrawn to evenly distribute SES diversity across all three schools, wouldn't that be an easy solution? Why do kids who go to TPES/PBES get so many more programs than the kids at ESS? In the very least, TPES should not have access to magnet programs and specialized teachers that kids at ESS (or other elementary schools across the county) do not. I think we need to ask ourselves why TPES -- the wealthiest school on the eastern side of the county -- gets such special treatment. It can't be a coincidence.

I think there are probably similar situations across the county -- where boundary lines could be slightly altered/redrawn to balance the inequities at schools that are literally in the same neighborhoods as one another. I know this won't solve the problem of east v west, but it could at least fix some glaring inequalities that exist within our own neighborhood schools. [/quote]

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