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Some would accuse you of moving the goal posts. Several people have insisted it mirror county demographics.[/quote]

[b]I suspect that the latter group haven't thought about variations in demographic groups.[/b] Unless you're going to send 20-somethings and retirees back to school, you can't make school demographics mirror county demographics. But you can create better-balanced school demographics if that's actually something you value.

And yes, there may be some busing, but it's not overwhelming, and considering the quantity of whining that happens when a bus is taken away and the number of parents who drop their kids off, I am not persuaded that the better balance would really have a significant impact on the percentage of students on buses.[/quote]

Then they are just making this up as they go along. I mean, talk about your uninformed opinions.

I'm also opposed to opposed to force busing. This is probably while they'll choose choice programs.

I travel back and forth between Yorktown and Wakefield a lot and it's not something I'd wish on a teen on a daily basis. [/quote]

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