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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like too much of a coincidence that these emergency equity rezoning changes always seem to be impacting areas that have a high concentration of asian students and their corresponding high scores. The residents crying for rezoning are never AA or Latino, they are always white. They had no problem when there were schools that were majority white but somehow once asians start to dominate an area its as if they view them as second class citizens who can be moved around at a whim for whatever purposes because they shouldn't be here anyway.

The same thing is going on in MCPS. Just watch, Whitman will be 100% untouched. The schools with larger asian communities like WJ and Wootton will be disrupted. [/quote]

This doesn't make sense to me. If the residents crying for rezoning are white, it's Asian students being moved to the new school where those residents presumably have children? So they're not running away from Asians.

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[b]The complains are coming from the parents of the white kids who are bright but not overachieving, or the ones who can't keep up with the Asian kids who are tutored outside of school. [/b] What they want is for the AA students to be relocated to lesser performing schools.  They don't care if more Hispanic or Black children are relocated to their school to benefit FARMS, but they want the AA children who are keeping their kids from being the top of the class to be relocated out.  So they request that the school district consider rezoning.  The problem is that the AA children are actually integrated into the largely white communities and there is no way for the school district to segregate them out.  So they flag neighborhoods for rezoning.  Then when white kids are rezoned out of their school, these white parents, some of the same ones who asked for rezoning complain about the methodology of the rezoning.  Basically they want the competition for their little snowflakes to be zoned to other schools while their children stay.[/quote]

??????

Maybe you went to different community meetings from the ones I went to.[/quote]

I went to community meetings where largely white parents at overcrowded popular schools (like Fulton ES and Resevoir HS, since I live in South HC) were complaining about the overcrowding.  They wanted kids moved out of their school to essentially preserve their good level school for their children.  They also wanted to support the concept of balancing out the FARMS population so that fewer schools were over the FARMS limit.  They even acknowledged that some FARMS kids would have to be moved into their schools.

However, once they saw how the rezoning was being effected, they complained about the methodology in selecting neighorhoods for being rezoned.  They made no bones that they wanted to preserve the high standards of the top tracked classes for their children while "other" children were bused to other schools.  And frankly, in person, it was easier to tell who they wanted bused out of their schools.  Fulton is 30% Asian.  Reservoir is 17% Asian and in both, most of the Asian children are at the top of the class, and those are the classes that these parents were complaining were overcrowded.[/quote]

PP you're responding to. I apologize. I'm in MCPS. I don't know if what you're saying is valid for HCPSS, but it is definitely not valid for MCPS.[/quote]

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