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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any change to articulation patterns was going to change demographics. So the only "safe" choice was not to change them at all, except that ignores the capacity issues.

When new schools open, or schools expand (as happened here), there will be shifts in articulation patterns. Almost be definition, that will mean some demographic changes, given residential segregation in our county.

I don't see a judge (or any deliberative body) buying the plaintiffs' argument here. Someone had to move. It turned out to be these folks. It it wasn't them, it would have been some other neighborhood, which would also have lost their minds. [/quote]

Except it would've made more sense if other schools were chosen such as Ron McNair. Moving  the cabin branch and Rural Boyds neighborhoods made no sense. [b]One thing for sure though is that there are a lot of Asian students in Cabin Branch and a lot of white students in Rural Boyds[/b].[/quote]

Let's compare option 5 (without Cabin Branch) to option 11 (with Cabin Branch).

Option 5, Seneca Valley HS: 34.6% African-American, 14.5% Asian-American, 30.4% Hispanic, 16.5% white, 1952 students in 2024-25
Option 11A, Seneca Valley HS: 34.6% African-American, 13.7% Asian-American, 30.4% Hispanic, 17.5% white, 2154 students in 2024-25

Turning that into absolute numbers -

Option 5, Seneca Valley HS: 675 African-American, 283 Asian-American, 593 Hispanic, 322 white students in 2024-25
Option 11, Seneca Valley HS: 745 African-American, 295 Asian-American, 655 Hispanic, 377 white students in 2024-25

So MCPS projects that adding Cabin Branch will add 70 African-American, 12 Asian-American, 62 Hispanic, and 55 white students (202 total, plus more than one plus rounding error) to the Seneca Valley HS student body in 2024-25: 35% African-American, 6% Asian-American, 31% Hispanic, 27% white.

Now, you may or may not believe these numbers - I have questions of my own - but those are MCPS's projections. Those are the numbers you would need to demonstrate that MCPS engaged in racial discrimination against white and Asian-American students.

Please feel free to check my numbers and tell me if I read the tables wrong or copied numbers over wrong.
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This was never about Seneca Valley. This was about Neelsville. [/quote]

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