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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people do not have a right to live close in

Those areas are expensive and nice for a reason. Plenty of cheap housing 45 min outside DC.

Either buy there or make more money to afford closer in. Stop assaulting those areas in the name of "equity"[/quote]

Hopefully your kids go to private school too. [/quote]

They do. Do you think your kids have a right to attend Whitman vs Gaithersburg? If you want Whitman go pay 20-40k a year in property tax vs 5k. If that’s not an option, how is that someone else’s problem? [/quote]

DP.  People have the right to reasonably equivalent public services.  They don't have a right to go to a particular school, but they do have a right to similar access to reasonably similar academics (at both primary/secondary and at all levels of rigor, not just the minimal adequate to achieve graduation) across the district, as the district, not the pyramid, is the level at which the state has set the mandate to provide educational services.[/quote]

Only way you're going to get "reasonably similiar" is with "reasonably similiar" SES demographics.[/quote]

No, that would be more related to achieving the same outcomes.

Providing reasonably similar academics in the sense mentioned has to do with ensuring reasonably equivalent opportunity/access to classes commensurate with individual ability/providing commensurate supports in accordance with individual need.  That is the obligation of the system so as not to [i]institutionally reinforce[/i] SES disparity.[/quote]

All MoCo schools will get your kid into Top 25 schools if your kid is smart enough. I should know, my kids went to a MoCo school pyramid that is mocked on this board and each got into multiple Ivies. The difference is the nature of their surroundings -- in the W schools, they're surrounded by privileged kids with the same goals, and in the non-W schools, it may take more self-motivation. I think we actually viewed it as an advantage in the college admissions process that my kids didn't have as much competition from others at their school -- after all, Harvard/Princeton/Yale/etc can't take 20 people from Whitman.[/quote]

Not saying you are one, but this is the kind of claim made by conservatives all the time -- "anyone can succeed in America if they [i]just try hard enough[/i]" -- completely ignoring that the government's obligation is to provide equal protections to its citizenry (at least that is what has been espoused), failing to acknowledge the [i]additional burden[/i] placed on the negatively affected population (making success, though not [i]impossible[/i], less likely for them than it would be with that reasonable equivalence), and effectively victim-blaming.  Might as well call it Jim Crow, Jr.

The anecdote also may be dated.  Take a look at that school, now.  Did any opportunities/advanced options of which your DCs took advantage get discontinued in the past few years?  Because that is what has been seen.

While pathway to a university education is not insignificant, it is as much or more the learning opportunities afforded [i]during[/i] a student's primary/secondary experience on which MCPS should focus, and it certainly is much more their responsibility.[/quote]

MCPS focuses heavily on making sure schools with high FARMS rates have the same or more options that a Whitman cluster school.  just look at the ESL support in a whitman cluster versus any other, its significantly higher, which means more $'s have to be spent.  MCPS constantly cuts extracurriculars to ensure that immigrants(especially) have the tools needed to become better.

I dont think MCPS has any issues with providing (or trying to provide) equal protections to citizens and noncitizens.

however, the county council wants to infiltrate the Whitman cluster with cheap housing, they just do.  they rather have MCPS schools average a 5 rating across the board, than have one cluster that has 9 +, in the name of equity.

But thats problematic, if they lower the cluster school ratings, property value goes down, more kids hit private, many move and they end up in a bigger deficit.  While I think this law is ridiculous, I dont imagine the council or the governor want to mess with the tax base out of the western side of the county.

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