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Sure. Keep that 7th grade argument going.  :roll: [/quote]

I mean, if you think Brown v. Board of Education is a 7th grade argument then you're and even worse racist than I thought. [/quote]
You're trying to conflate Brown v Board of Ed to busing students between Prince Georges and MoCo?  Yep. 7th grade arguments. :roll: [/quote]

Race-integration busing in the United States (also known as simply busing or by its critics as forced busing) was [b]the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools[/b]. While the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, many American schools continue to remain largely uni-racial due to housing inequality.  In an effort to address the ongoing de facto segregation in schools, the 1971 Supreme Court decision, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, ruled that the federal courts could use busing as a further integration tool to achieve racial balance.

This sounds like just the thing to solve segregation in the Takoma Park/Langley Park area.[/quote]
If in this alternate version of reality the boundaries between PG and MoCo were eliminated and the point was to desegregate and/or increase the diversity in each county’s schools, the answer wouldn’t be to change the demographics of the already diverse and non segregated DCC schools, it would be for PG County kids to be bused to Whitman and Churchill, where the schools are lacking in diversity and some would say segregated, and vice versa.[/quote]

You claim DCC schools are already diverse.  But [b]when compared with western PG schools they are not very diverse at all[/b].  And yes, it would make schools like Whitman and Churchill more diverse to have PG Co kids bused there but I don't think PG County parents would want their kids bused that far.  TPES and MS are right there though.[/quote]

Of course they are. DCC schools are more diverse than either western MoCo or western PG schools are. [/quote]

Even if that was true, do you support keeping PG County schools segregated when Takoma Park has an abundance of perfectly good white kids it could send to PG County schools?   [/quote]

You can’t be serious. Why wouldn’t Moco not send “perfectly good white kids” from Bethesda or Potomac? You’re ridiculous and clearly a troll. [/quote]

One of the four factors of the boundary policy, is proximity.  It is not as high a priority as diversity but it's still a factor.  Conversely, Takoma Park is right there.  In fact, in case you didn't know, back in 1997, segregationist Marc Elrich lead the secession effort to break Takoma Park away from predominantly black Prince George's County and merge it with predominantly white Montgomery County.  Elrich said, "I would have died if people in Montgomery County had voted to move to Prince George's," Elrich said. "There is a perceived difference that Montgomery County has better schools, better services and higher property values."  Talk about white flight.[/quote]

Or that the poorest parts of TP don't even go to the same school zone. wonder why Flower Ave is the line  :?:  [/quote]

The only place where Flower is a school boundary line is between New Hampshire Estates/Oak View and Highland View in an area that isn't even in Takoma Park. What are you talking about?[/quote]

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