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So really what proponents are talking about is redisributing students to flatten out FARMS levels -- or at least make the differences in FARMS not so stark. Because race and class are correlated in this country, of course that may mean changes in the racial mix of the student bodies at various schools. But make no mistake, [b]every school in MCPS --- EVERY school -- is already racially integrated. [/b]

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This is true only insofar as there is no school in MCPS that is 100% one particular race/ethnicity.

If you think New Hampshire Estates PS or Westbrook ES are racially integrated, then your definition of integration must be different from mine.[/quote]

Westbrook is 25% nonwhite. It's racially integrated, though I'll grant you it's safe to say that it is predominantly white.

You make a stronger case with New Hampshire Estates, which is 72 percent Hispanic, 21 percent black and less than 5 percent white. Maybe adjusting boundaries will improve the socioeconomic mix in a school like that.

[b]Westbrook Elementary is in the southwest corner of the county, in Bethesda. You'd have to bus kids pretty far in or out of there to appreciably change the racial mix, given the racial and econonic mix of that area of the county.[/b][/quote]

So, this example gets at a fundamental misunderstanding of what's being discussed here. No one, not the BoE, or randoms on DCUM, is proposing busing kids into Westbrook just to make it more integrated. However, there is a lot of development going on near Westbrook, AND the apartment/condos that feed into Somerset are drawing more young families. It is possible that some boundaries might shift between Somerset, Westbrook, Wood Acres, and Banockburn, for example. Not by much, just by a few streets here or there to deal with over- and under-utilization of the schools, as well as the new development and demographic shift. [/quote]

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