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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or we could just keep building schools and moving boundaries around and never address the quality of education and resources provided in the different schools.[/quote]

bingo

plus the erosion of disciplinary measures (Code of Conduct) and lack of rigor through fear-based leadership

Why deal with the root causes when we can throw money at addressing the symptoms? [/quote]

Why believe that there is only one issue, which must be addressed completely by one action?

Are the differences in educational offerings and resources between schools a problem? Yes. Will adjusting boundaries help fix those problems? Probably not much.

Are school capacities and segregation problems? Yes. Will adjusting boundaries solve those problems completely? No.

[b]Will adjusting boundaries help fix those problems? Yes.[/b][/quote]

No, I disagree.

School cultures are different. Parents with money can oftentimes "privatize" a public school through the creation of foundations, for examples.  If adjusting boundaries helped, you'd have more mixed housing units - subsidized housing - in Bethesda, Potomac, Chevy Chase, etc.

Let's say Kennedy, BCC, the new Woodward, and WJ formed a new consortium.  How often do you think kids from outside of their normal school boundary will hang out with kids at their new school?  Distance is a factor, but so is SES.  It sounds harsh, eh?  But this is the truth.

People segregate.  Walk through a high school cafeteria.  Guess who's eating in the cafeteria?  kids on FARMs

People buy homes they can afford.  These areas either draw in a sh*t ton of money or they struggle.  (The "in between" folks are shrinking.)  Schools reflect that.  So kids form friendships with those in their community. Is that bad?

point is this - Empower communities instead of implementing forced busing. 
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You are entitled to your opinions, but not your own facts.

Will adjusting boundaries so that some kids zoned for over-capacity schools are rezoned for under-capacity schools, help with capacity? Yep, it sure will.

Will adjusting boundaries so that some kids from poor families zoned for high-poverty schools are rezoned for low-poverty schools, help with reducing high-poverty schools? Yep, it sure will.[/quote]

You just don't get it.

Moving low SES kids to a high-SES school looks good (however [b]temporarily[/b]) ON PAPER. It doesn't solve the issues facing poor communities, nor does it connect culture to culture, however you wish to define that term.

It's a simplistic and ignorant measure that doesn't have long-lasting effects.

You should hear the dispute around the boundary issues between CHS and SVHS. The conversations aren't pretty.

Again, you're looking at addressing the symptoms and not the root issues.

People in high SES areas have means, and if they believe the "system has failed them," they will go private.

Again - What's the message we're sending to kids in high-poverty schools?  You're not good enough.  So let's either send you to a white, wealthy school, or let's send in some wealthy kids (mostly white) to your school.

How is this healthy and normal?

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I wanted to let you know it isn't opposite day so please stop making false assertions. Most of these things may not be what you want to hear but they have been proven false. [/quote]

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