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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ you brought up busing. Please research and link if you are interested. [/quote]

Ok. If not busing, then what are these “best practices” you want that the county won’t do? [/quote]

Were you not around for the last boundary redraw? I think you can find a thread or two here.[/quote]

You’ve made some bold accusations. Are you able to back them up or not?

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Not PP, but are you saying it's "bold" to say that concentrated poverty may have a deleterious effect on educational outcomes? [/quote]

DP. Don't be obtuse. APS didn't create the concentrations of poverty, those are due to housing and economic development and policy that APS has no control over. They cannot change the geographic concentrations of poverty and have limited options for fixing the consequences of it for schools. If you have a specific thing you think APS can and should be doing, just say it. Otherwise you're not worth my time anymore.[/quote]

I'm not the one making "bold" accusations, but it's not true that APS has no role in this. There are and will be lots of kids on buses, because there are many areas that are not and will never be safely walkable. That's not "busing." Some kids can be bused to a different school, sometimes even an equidistant one, to avoid further concentrating poverty. And APS can choose how boundaries are drawn and where option programs are located, to some extent, and utilize their powers to break up concentrated poverty and/or to avoid creating new neighborhood schools where the concentrated poverty would be higher than it already is. They can also employ admissions policies to option schools that serve to promote economic integration (they are doing a better job with his as of late). None of this is "busing." It's educational best practices.

But, instead of wanting them to do any of those things, many people want APS to eliminate all option schools and choice programs and force everyone to walk to their segregated neighborhood schools. How else can that be interpreted other than those individuals are not only willing to accept de facto segregation, but are knowingly and actively working against integration? Because that's just an acceptable outcome? That's just how it always has been and therefore always shall be?

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