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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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This is you.

BoE: We're trying to make schools less segregated by gender. In practice, this means that schools that currently have very few girls will have some more girls.
Poster #1: Panic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poster #2: I guess you're scared of girls, huh?
You: Who said anything about girls, you sexist? PP#1 just doesn't want their son in a school with more short people.
Poster #3: BoE isn't adjusting boundaries based on height. Also, lots of girls aren't short, and lots of boys are short.
You: Nonetheless, it is a common-sense concern that if the boundaries are adjusted to bring in more students from schools with short people, then there will be more short people in the school that currently has very few girls. And it's reasonable for parents to not want their boys to be around more kids who don't pick their clothes up off the floor.
Poster #4: Where did you get the idea that girls are less likely to pick their clothes up off the floor than boys?
Poster #5: Yeah, I have a daughter, and she picks her clothes up off the floor.
You: People keep trying to make this about gender, and it's not. It's also not saying that there aren't currently some people at the school who are short and don't pick their clothes up off the floor. It's just about the valid worry that there will be more short people in the school.
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