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[quote=Anonymous]So did it occur to anyone that rezoning for diversity will just mean that people re-segregate into different areas? How often is MCPS going to rezone to keep its desired racial balance? What happens when this can't be achieved at the edges of boundaries and requires kids to be bussed further and further.

The segregation that some posters are freaking about isn't just historical. Montgomery Village is a good example. In the 90s it used to be filled with lower to mid level feds and very MC.  Now its all rentals with landlords allowing multiple families in one small TH, crime and one of the worst gang locations in the county. The whites all left for Frederick county, QO, RM  or Olney cluster or VA. Wheaton, decades ago, was a nice place but everyone fled to closer in SS or the west. The eastern and northern areas of Silver Spring have been losing the UMC/MC too though they had fewer to start.

MCPS seems to be focused on enlarged schools that have dropping enrollments and where people are fleeing. Kennedy and Seneca Valley do not need more space. No amount of boundary shifting and bussing is going to make those schools attractive so rather than waste the expansion money, why not just expand the schools that are actually over crowded?

It just seems like a futile effort and distraction that won't return any benefits to actual students. [/quote]

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