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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone comment on which practices used to address this issue are currently successful in other parts of the country?
[b]Massive boundary changes seems unfair on those who (over)paid[/b] and busing is costly. How have other places attracted middle class families? Just wondering[/quote]

Why is that unfair, specifically?

I think it is all about housing.  In the town where my sister lives (and where I grew up), there is a wide variety of housing, from subsidized apartments to $1M+ houses.  There are eight elementaries, one middle school, one high school.  So the kids from Section 8 housing are attending the same schools as the ones with doctor/lawyer/professional parents.

Housing is very, very segregated by income in MoCo.  This is the root of the problem.  IMO[/quote]

OK-so the section 8 people live next door to the $1 million houses? Probably not. You daid there are 8 elementaries so some way has to be decided for the kids to go to each school. My bet is it is location based.

Montgomery County is one huge school district as opposed to a town. There has to be some way to assign kids to each school. Spending time and money busing kids all over the place is a huge waste of limited dollars and the busing experiment in the 70"s did not prove to help at all on the education and social newtork of the community.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/features/2014/the_liberal_failure_on_race/how_the_left_s_embrace_of_busing_hurt_the_cause_of_integration.html

http://www.adversity.net/special/busing.htm

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Elementaries are location-based.  Some are pretty homogeneous, socioeconomically, but others (like the one I attended) are not.  Kids who live in apartment buildings attend elementary school with kids who live in $1M+ houses.  And EVERYONE goes to the same middle and high schools.

I agree that busing is probably not the answer.

And we see that magnets are not the answer, either.

I know that MoCo is a huge school district and not a town.  The fact remains, however, that MoCo makes the ongoing choice to segregate people by housing prices.  It is a choice not to locate affordable housing in e.g. Bethesda, Potomac, Chevy Chase.  In making that choice, MoCo also chooses the achievement gap.[/quote]

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