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OK, so would you like to deliberately and willingly increasing the chance of having "bad apples" around your kids?
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Increasing "bad apples" around your kids, how? Are you saying that there are more "bad apples" among poor kids than among non-poor kids?[/quote]

No. I am not saying that, you are. It is amazing so many people just want to distort other's view so that they could argue against an easier target - sorry, that is a target out of your imagination.

I am saying there is a better chance of having "bad apples" from low-performing kids. Doesn't matter if they are poor or rich.
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But nobody is talking about adjusting boundaries based on test scores. In fact, how would you even do this? They are talking about adjusting boundaries based on school capacity and demographics. So if your comment is, "Why would you want your kid to be around more students with low test scores?", it's irrelevant to the discussion.

To say nothing of your idea that kids with low test scores are more likely to be "bad apples" than kids with high test scores.

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The goal is to work on capacities and demographics.  People do not have to be against your goals. If they feel that your actions could bring other effects, they can raise these concerns even if those are not what you intended to do.

When you adjust school boundaries, you either move some students away, or bring some students in. If people have reasons to believe that the students being brought in are more likely low performers, they can 
certainly be concerned about that.

So now the question is, do people have reasons to believe that? Well, not reasons strong enough to win a court battle I guess, but there are reasons that would make some common sense - e.g. if you bring in students from a school that apparently performs worse than the current one, would it not be more likely that those students being moved be lower-performers than those in the current school?

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