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NP here. Please tell me how you got the racial make up of the students who live in Cabin Branch by those numbers. There is NO racial breakdown of kids from that neighborhood (yes I live there and yes Central Office confirmed they don't have that racial breakdown).[/quote]

[b]For Seneca Valley HS, Option 11 = Option 5 + Cabin Branch. [/b]Right? So if you subtract the Option 5 numbers from the Option 11 numbers, you get Cabin Branch.[/quote]

No. That's not option 11.[/quote]

So what's the difference between Option 11 and Option 5, for Seneca Valley HS?[/quote]

Look it up. Option 5 has all of Gibbs, option 11 has non walkers of Gibbs. Option 11 also includes rural Boyds. Option 11a was actually what was selected.[/quote]

Those aren't major differences. The Gibbs (future) walkers come from couple of streets on the south side of West Old Baltimore Rd. And there's only a handful of kids from Boyds.

So ok, if you subtract Option 5 from Option 11, you don't get [i]exactly[/i] Cabin Branch. But pretty much what you get is Cabin Branch.[/quote].

Option 11 was not selected. It was option 11a which also included Germantown.[/quote]

The point is not, which was selected. The point is, who's coming from Cabin Branch (or rather, who does MCPS project to be coming from Cabin Branch). Various PPs have characterized the reassignment as race-based discrimination against white and Asian-American students. But MCPS's numbers suggest that most of the students reassigned to Neelsville/Seneca Valley from Cabin Branch are black or Hispanic.

And while MCPS's numbers might be nonsense, they're the numbers MCPS is using.

It's also quite possible that the various PPs are greatly overestimating the proportion of their Cabin Branch neighbors who are white or Asian-American. [/quote]

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