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No-  when people talk about bussing they are talking about selecting kids based on their demographics and bussing them past a closer to school to a different one. This is bussing. Plain and simple, don't pretend it is anything different.

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When people talk about &quot;busing&quot;, they mean &quot;that thing that if I say it, everyone will say they're against it.'

The reality is

1. MCPS has used demographics to establish boundaries for decades
2. lots of places in Montgomery County are zoned for the geographically-nearest school, for various reasons (including but not limited to #1).

In some cases, people who say they want to keep the status quo and oppose busing are actually being bused in the status quo.[/quote]
DP.. yes, this is what I keep saying.. this is happening right now. But I guess some people are upset because they think now it will happen to them.

When MCPS redraws the boundaries they won't be sending buses of kids from one side of the county to the other. It will be a few minutes.  So, saying it's too long for kids to be on the bus for 5min extra is ridiculous. It's not going to be 90min. Gimme a break.  They will try to even out FARMS rate as much as they can between *NEIGHBORING* clusters so that it's not so lopsided.  Why is that such a horrible thing?

Are people thinking that your kids might have to go from a school with &lt;5% FARMs to a school with a 70% FARMS rate or something?  You realize that if they redraw the boundaries those schools will have a very different looking demographic, right?   [/quote]

How do you know what BOE and MCPS will do?  I dont think even they know what will happen.  If you listen to MoCo for Change and attended the boundary onformation inn SS kast werk, you could find what those people want.  It is very different from your wishful thinking.[/quote]

Because BOE has repeatedly said they aren't interested in busing kids from one side of the county to the other. And the MCPS policy has four factors, one of which is geography.[/quote]
+1 exactly..   But who wants to listen to facts. It's much more exciting to add some drama to your life by being a drama queen.

What "those people" want is to have equitable quality of education, and yes, that means not have low income students all concentrated in specific schools.   Again, school boundaries will change, and thus the demographics of those schools will also change.[/quote]

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