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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boundary changes are hard because people have made long term financial decisions (like purchasing a home) based on school boundaries. It's not so simple to just change these. I'm in a neighborhood that I'm pretty sure would stay as it's currently structured, simply because of proximity to the schools we're assigned to, but I really feel for people who might face changes. There are very few situations where you'd be getting a better deal with boundary changes. You're talking about moving people who have chosen to pay more for a house to be in a better school zone to a worse school zone and changing their housing value drastically. Not a good solution.

I think they should work harder to improve the schools as they exist. We are at an elementary school that is only 46% white and 40% FARMs with a high ESL rate. My kids are white upper middle class and we love this school. The principal and teachers are excellent. There are challenges, of course, but the wider community supports the school as well (churches help with food over weekends and summer, coat drives, etc.). There are ways to meet a school's needs where it is instead of trying to change the student population. [b]I also think there's an element of racism in the thought that adding "white rich kids" will improve a school. [/b][/quote]

Or course it does. People base their views of school on test scores ("good" schools) and test scores are directly correlated with socioeconomic status. The teachers at "top" schools aka schools with very low FARMS rates are no better than teachers at a high FARMS school. They just have a student population that comes in more ready to learn and with every possible advantage given to them. If you moved all the student from a "good" school to a "bad" school while keeping the staff the same the "bad" school would change overnight and suddenly have top test scores. [/quote]

It's no longer just the white kids. It's mostly the Asian kids.[/quote]

I don't think it's racial.  I think it's SES--but, anyone who doesn't want their kid moved is called a racist.[/quote]

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