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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Just because redrawing those boundaries such that it evens out the FARMs a bit won't raise test scores, it doesn't mean that evening out FARMs is a bad idea. [/quote]

You something more than evening out is not a bad idea to divide and disrupt communities. No one -poor or wealthy- wants to be the island that gets chosen for forced bussing. Whether the issue is logistics, time, transportation, neighborhood continuity, not wanting to go to a lower performing school or whatever it is never popular for the area that is affected. There has to be a very compelling reason to inflict harm on a community.

I don't disagree with you that there may be other reasons to engage in forced bussing but letting MCPS hide poor performance, raising money for MCCPTA, or spreading out disruptive kids who should be sent to a special schools with much higher security or interventions instead of mainstream classrooms are just not compelling reasons. [/quote]
But why assume that the reason for the boundary change is just to mask poor performance or spreading out disruptive kids?

I don't see it that way.  The way I see it, they are trying to balance FARMs as much as they can within the constraints of the other three factors.

I do agree, though, that islands are terrible, and we have that issue already, and certainly they should not continue drawing such boundaries.

But, in and of itself, boundary changes to even out capacity AND FARMS is the right thing for MCPS to do.[/quote]

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