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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]

[b]Then they are just making this up as they go along. [/b]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]

Who is the "they"? People chiming in on this or other message boards? It's not the people who are making informed policy arguments about balanced demographics. They are also not asking for forced busing, but you know this. [/quote]

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