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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,[b] help with reducing high-poverty schools?[/b] Yep, it sure will.[/quote]

I assume you meant "hep reducing the poverty level of high-poverty schools".

Maybe, maybe not, even if it does change the level,  it would just be marginally - apparently these are only minor boundary changes, not involving, say, moving 20% of kids to another school.

However, do the county select a region in the high-poverty school zone that is poorer, and move that region out?

If yes, why moving the poorer kids? How about the not so poor kids in the high-poverty school? Don't they deserve the same opportunity (whatever that "opportunity" is)?
If no, then you are not moving really the "poorer" part of the school out so the poverty level of the high-poverty school is not going to change at all.

Minor boundary changes for capacities reasons based on geographic factors can be well accepted by most. With other factors added, things change. I suspect BoE does not really care about the result. What they care about is to speak out and tell people that they care about the poor, so they get more support. That's it. I understand and I think that is what politicians do.

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The BoE already stated their highest factor when deciding boundaries is diversity. This is why forming consortiums with schools near one another like Kennedy, Wooton and WJ makes so much sense. [/quote]

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