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I'm with Scott Pearson on this ("A solution in search of a problem.")

Tell me again why a Big Flip is something we need to avoid?[/quote]

This. Many times over. But I'm a racist gentrifier from 2002, so I'm sure there are many points I'll be accused of not understanding. [/quote] The objection to a school system that leads to significant racial segregation is not hard to understand. The question is whether you can address this without doing away with the neighborhood schools that attract higher SES families and that they will invest in. Retaining an OOB quota in all schools for which FARM families have a preference seems like an obvious and simple solution.[/quote][/quote]

Two points:

1. We already have significant racial segregation. In fact, I would say the word "significant" understates the problem.

2. "The Big Flip" isn't presented in terms of increasing integration. The assertion is made, unsupported, that allowing a school that is currently more than 50% FARMS to become less than 50% FARMS -- "The Big Flip" -- is inherently bad, and something we as a society should be working actively to prevent.  I'm sorry, there's just a really big leap of logic there.[/quote]

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