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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]^^ Despite what a PP said earlier, this really is about everyone wanting to live in Bethesda, CC, Arlington, etc. The people complaining about affordable housing know that they can afford to buy a place in Montgomery Village, they just think they're too good for it.[/quote]

I agree with you but the reason that people want to live in those areas is because of the quality of the schools.  That's the uncompleted part of the sentence "affordable housing in the DMV [u]with decent quality schools[/u]"[/quote]

[b]The schools won’t be “good” anymore if the housing is much more affordable. The socioeconomic composition of the schools is the number largest predictor of school performance[/b]. Schools cannot change the home environment and school/teacher quality explains less than 10% of the variance in academic performance. Parental background is the most important. This idea that you can magically make low income kids from families with low education  have equal outcomes to wealthy families is not based in reality. You might be able to reduce the gap a little bit, but there is no society where these groups have equal outcomes. [/quote]

I was waiting for it! Keep the poors out of my backyard said explicitly.  Never change DCUM, the place where people say the quiet part so loud we keep coming back for more. [/quote]

It's not the quiet part, out loud. It's just the plain out-loud part. I have heard real people say this in real life, in the context of school boundary changes, with their neighbors in the room.[/quote]

shhhh, PP doesn't want to be made to feel uncomfortable when faced with cold statistics. feels before reals![/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to directly, and you're right, I felt very uncomfortable when my neighbors were standing up at boundary-study public meetings, explaining that [u]those[/u] kids should have to go to [u]that[/u] school over [u]there[/u] because if they went to [u]this[/u] school over [u]here[/u], it would be bad for our property values and our kids' college prospects. It did not make me feel good about my neighbors who said those things, and I have not forgotten that they said those things..[/quote]

Were they wrong?[/quote]

Yes, they were. Not just morally, but also empirically.[/quote]

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