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[quote=Anonymous]Lets say that MCPS chops up all the schools and creates bizarre boundaries bussing people living closer in to areas further out and vice versa to achieve their balance. What happens when 3 years later everyone has moved to be in better boundaries? I honestly think that the pro-chop it up crowd is hoping for a real estate windfall the same way the anti-chop it crowd is hoping it doesn't happen. I 100% doubt that anyone posting on this board actually gives two hoots about poor kids.

Lets play out an example. Lets say you get to bus get one ES out of one of the Ws up to Kennedy or Gaithersburg and one of the SS or Gaithersburg schools down into the Ws. Do you think that the real estate in the cheaper areas up north will stay affordable and low income? Of course not, it will go up and you will be back to a non-FARMS school. Do you think that the people living down south that now have to send their kids to a low ranked school will embrace this idea and happily put their kids on the bus while all their neighbors are going to a better school? Of course not, they will move -losing money and the people who buy in will get a bargain but do private school.

Its not as if there are not economic models from failed attempts to do this in other school systems. Its economically very predictable. MCPS will not get the outcome it wants, the schools will not retain a 65/35 FARMS balance and they'll just take down the entire county.

It really doesn't matter whether you personally believe this is right or wrong its 101 economic behavior. If the county was responsible they would hire a credible economist (not an educator) to create simulations of what the effects of these decisions would have on the county, whether it would ever yield the desired outcome and what the overall impact would be from doing this.[/quote]

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