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It seems to me that the people who live in Potomac or Bethesda are considered the wealthier citizens of the county.  And if they had to go into a county wide lottery, there would be a good chance that those people might pull their children out of the lottery system and choose other educational opportunities.  If the local residents were not a part of the W schools, what would that leave you and what benefit would other students gain?
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Then we must find a way to change a law to force integration. Why can't the poor have the freedom to chose whatever education opportunities for their kids. Every kid deserves good education, not just the ones with money. [/quote]

If the wealthy people chose other educational opportunities for their children, they would probably either be a different public school system or a private school.  I'm not sure you can pass a law that mandates people to use the public education system.  Across MCPS, every child follows the same cirriculum so it's hard to say that a child in one school district isn't getting the same education as another.  I don't think people are arguing about the actual cirriculum that is provided (2.0 aside) but [b]it's the other things that the school district really can't control--- parent involvement, peer groups, motivations, family values that place a priority on education.[/b]  Busing or forced integratin would be one way to address these issues, but it won't work if one side has the ability (money) to opt out.[/quote]

Exactly.  There are things that can't easily be bused to another school.  Also, I think people are discounting the value of a neighborhood school that all the kids in a neighborhood attend.  For working parents, it's great to know that a neighbor can pick up or watch kids in a pinch.  We've done a magnet and it's a pain when you can't easily call on another parent to help with pick ups (because MCPS does not do door-to-door busing).  We came from DC where a single neighborhood might have kids attending 15 different DCPS, charter, parochial or whatever school.  It's a headache to do lotteries yearly, renegotiate commutes/pickup schedules constantly, and buses will only do so much.  Kids going out of boundary are on their own, riding city buses or requiring parents to chauffer them everywhere.  We came to MoCo to escape all that, and now people want to do that here on the pipe dream that giving every child an equal chance to attend a W school will make everything better?  I can guarantee you that the day that the student body of one of the W schools is randomly selected from the entirety of the county and the connection between the students and the surrounding community is entirely severed, the school will cease to be high performing.  You're fooling yourself if you think that it's just the building, teachers, and the location that makes a W school high performing.[/quote]

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