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Do you agree kids should have 45 minutes bus rides to a school? Do you really think  that changing the boundaries will decrease the achievement gap? SO miraculously, a kid who goes to a low performing school who doesn't have the support at home will all of a sudden receive the at home support and the values and the skills needed to succeed in the newly assigned higher performing school? [/quote]

Is your thinking here that "go to a low-performing school" and "doesn't have the support at home" are synonyms?

Because if not, then taking your argument as given, k[b]ids who go to a "low-performing school" and DO have the support at home WILL benefit from going to a "higher performing school[/b]." How about those kids?[/quote]

Nope, not synonymous of course. And what makes you presume that kids who go to a low-performing school and DO have the support at home and are already excelling at their current school, would want to be subjected to long bus rides? What value will this bring to them?[/quote]

You've put together a seamless argument there. Poor kids at high-poverty schools who don't have the support at home won't do well anywhere, so why move them? Poor kids at high-poverty schools who do have the support at home are already excelling, so why move them? [b]Bottom line: everybody benefits when the school system keeps the poor kids at the high-poverty schools! How convenient[/b].[/quote]

No I'm not saying that at all. Inhale exhale please. As I said, schools shouldn't be disproportionately poor and if we can make adjustments we should do it as long as we're not imposing long bus rides to students. I also said that we should FIX the real issue and let's not think that boundary changes is a unicorn that will solve the problem of poor, low performing kids. MCPS can't get away that easy. Somehow some people have failed to learn the reason why kids fail at school.  How do you help poor kids who are failing at school? Free tutoring, teaching kids the skills they need to succeed at school and to succeed in life (not go to jail, not get pregnant, etc.), having extra counselors so that they can navigate a difficult home life. Will changing schools give them that?     [/quote]

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