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Can you answer my question please instead of resorting to name calling? THis is the problem.  Only in DCUM, if someone questions the solution to a problem to see if it is actually addressing the issue, the immediate response is anger. 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? [/quote]

Let's ask some other questions.

What is the maximum acceptable length of a bus ride, in minutes?
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What benefits from boundary adjustments might there be, other than decreasing the achievement gap, or is decreasing the achievement gap the sole measure of educational benefit[/b]?[/quote]

[b]There are [/b]other benefits -- people are choosing to focus on the achievement gap because its practically intractable.  So if we can't fix it -- hey why do anything?[/quote]

But what are those other benefits? Also, some PP way above just said that it was all about the achievement gap. So my response was, how do we know that it will really fix the achievement gap and now we have people jumping down my throat that it's more than just the achievement gap. As I said, I was just responding to what another PP above who said:  [b]It's all about closing the achievement gap rightly or wrongly that's what the goal of all of this is. To do that by having less high performing and low performing schools and you do that by tweaking boundaries to try and level out SES levels across attendance areas[/b][/quote]

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