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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to call someone a classist for being opposed to your liberal dream that would be legitimate - but to consistently call someone who disagrees with you a racist is to to (ironically) show your own ‘racism’.  (Defined by a bias towards a particular skin color)  And by continuing to focus on skin color you miss the thousands of neurodiverse kids of all colors who have been ill served by MCPS.  What will buses do to improve their skills?  This is not 1974 - no matter how many times you repeat it.  Also, sorry but if you want your liberal dream you are going to have to convince a person like me - who doesn’t want his kid to go to high school with an MS-13 member...that a school change benefits my kid.  Otherwise you are going to exacerbate the economic segregation you are obsessed with. (Bright flight)

By the way,[b] I would argue it was developers and the County itself who wanted higher property values in the Western part of the county who largely kept the socio-economic divide - they set this pattern, not homeowners[/b].[/quote]
Bolded part is very true. I'm very for the boundary study. It's long over due.  But the fact of the matter is that there aren't as many apartments around some of the W clusters.

However, I will argue that even if there were, the prices would be higher than the eastern part of the county simply because of demand. The only way to draw in low income families is to create tons of section 8 housing in the W clusters, but as stated, that's a county issue.[/quote]

Red-lining and restricting low-income housing to largely 1-2 areas may have also played a large part

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Indeed, which is why I stated that the housing question is a county issue.[/quote]

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