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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 [b]the pipe dream that giving every child an equal chance to attend a W school will make everything better[/b]?  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]

Who is saying that? Who is saying that the solution to the segregated schools in Montgomery County is giving every child an equal chance to go to Whitman? Who is saying that it's the building, the teachers, and the location make Whitman high-performing? [/quote]

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