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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
I think the relevant point is that every time MCPS plucks out an area based on the demographics to achieve a more racially and economically balanced quota its going to get challenged. At some point, some school system and it very well could end up being MCPS is going to get a case that goes up to the Supreme Court. Justice Roberts was pretty clear in his statements during the 2007 case that disallowed schools from using race for school assignment that the decision should have gone even further and clarified that school assignments and boundaries should be color blind. If the court gets a case, its likely this will be the outcome and it will knock everything out-including choosing magnet locations to attract wealthy whites into low income areas, the ability for school systems to give URM students extra point for overcoming adversity in test in programs (Florida does this and its very successful).

But this is fiction since none of this happened. It would have been illegal to have done something like that. What they did is balance these schools based on the criteria which they voted on and makes sense to everyone except a few who are more concerned about property values than the quality of education.[/quote]

You know its not fiction. The BOE published charts showing the racial impact of the decisions. The BOE passed the resolution to add diversity as an especially important criteria. The boundary study is to look ways for achieve more diversity. This is not a color blind exercise by any means. The legal standard is not color blind -YET. Its vague and basically set up this impossible situation where schools are expected to achieve diversity but not use race for school assignments. Schools interrupted this as don't ask, don't tell -which is getting challenged.

The legal question which the courts sooner or later will decide is whether proxy measures or thin veiled covering school boundaries and assignments to achieve improved racial balancing is a violation of the equal protection clause or not.

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Why do you think the BOE is asking for unlimited funds for attorneys fees?  Because they are SO going to need them.[/quote]

more likely will be laughed out of court[/quote]

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