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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I applaud the BOE's efforts to analyze cluster boundaries and to bus the W kids away to other schools so that other kids can have these opportunities regardless of where their parents can afford to buy a home. [/quote]

I had read that diversity which I assume refers to economic diversity was the number one criteria when redrawing the boundaries.[/quote]

You may have read that here on DCUM, but no, that is not accurate.[/quote]

It's true even though some DCUM diehards want to mislead people in the hopes they can slip this by![/quote]

You are the one being misleading here. The boundary studies are all publicly available:

[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx[/url]

If you read the reports, you can easily see that diversity has not been "the number one criteria." All of them have used a combination of factors when redrawing boundaries.[/quote]

They have different ways to describe the same thing. FARM, ESOL EQUITY, all of these have become code words for racial diversity[/quote]

"Code words"? You sound like a conspiracy theorist. MCPS's official term is "demographic characteristics of student population," and it explicitly includes:
• racial/ethnic composition of the student population;
• socio-economic composition of the student population;
• level of English language learners and other reliable demographic indicators; and
• participation in specific educational programs.

But this is all beside the original point, which is that demographics is only one of the four factors, the other three being:
o Geography
o Facility Utilization
o Stability of School Assignment over Time

And any clear reading of the boundary decisions that have been made since the policy was revised in 2018 will show that all four factors have been given consideration.[/quote]

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