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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]

And what should they do about school boundaries?  Change them on a street-by-street basis?  Why not go house-by-house?  How are you going to make sure the schools are balanced?  At the end of the day, you would need to move a lot of hispanic, black, white, Asian, gay, straight, rich, middle class, poor, and others around in order to balance the schools.  It seems like people are obsessed with certain schools performing well.  I would like to see what exactly people think can be done.

We need to get the 60+ year old women out of the school board.  Having children in school should be a requirement to be on the board.[/quote]

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