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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do all these pro-segregation posters actually live here? [/quote]

Can you point out a pro-segregation post?

Nobody is forcing anybody of any color to live anywhere.  [/quote]

[b]Then why are the schools segregated? Because people can't live just anywhere.[/b]  Further, there are a number of historical factors that created this situation.

1) Restricting the majority all the low-income housing to a few areas
2) historical practices like red-lining
3) gerrymandering school boundaries to exclude low-income students or the reverse

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?  How is that the fault of MCPS?  MoCo now mandates moderate price dwellings in new multi-unit builds in wealthy areas.  What do you want MCPS to do about housing policies?

Also, MCPS is trying to "force busing" according to some. So, seems to me like MCPS is trying to de-segregate. Again, what else do you want MCPS to do?  And please stop with the .."defending segregation" nonsense.  You seem to never answer my question about  what else MCPS is supposed to do about de facto segregation due to housing prices.[/quote]

Obviously MCPS can't do anything about housing policies. But they CAN do something about school boundaries.[/quote]
We're going in circles.  MCPS is trying to do something about school boundaries. That's why so many parents are up in arms about "busing". That's why my neighborhood that is closer to a W schools is zoned for a non W school. That's why the SVHS boundary thread is super long... because MCPS is changing the boundary there such that they are trying to "bus" students to make FARMS rate more equitable.

Yet, some troll keeps saying how some of us are defending segregation, calling us "pro-segregation" by stating the obvious... it's the housing policies, stupid.  And most of us on here don't define housing policies.  However, parents don't want over crowded schools, and I would imagine, poor parents would also rather not have their children go to over crowded schools where the class sizes are huge, but many, unfortunately, don't have any other option.

And before some stupid troll calls me pro-segregationist, I grew up low income, to poor immigrant parents who didn't speak English.[/quote]

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