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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched the video public testimony from the BOE meeting on Thursday. I’m a bit puzzled by some of the comments from people about equity. I absolutely want equity for others and am fortunate to live in a wealthier area, but those comments from people, what do they want? Are they asking for MCPS to bus them from BCC and Woodlin ES 30 minutes away to schools to mix wealthy families with those who aren’t? Are they wanting poorer kids to be bussed 30 mins to their schools?

I get it on the margins like Kensington could be mixed with Einstein, or parts of Silver Spring could go to BCC, but to bring kids to Whitman from Silver Spring or from Churchill to Crown or from Darnestown to Crown just doesn’t make sense.

So what are these people really seeking?[/quote]

We are just pissed that these options leave some DCC schools still over crowded (Wheaton and Kennedy) but not the richer schools, that there is tons of split articulation forcing our kids to go to different middle schools than their friends but almost none for the richer schools, and that DCC FARMS rates get worse rather than better.  And all of this is in every single option so basically it's like MCPS is saying "we won't even consider doing anything that the richer schools wouldn't like, the only choices are around which DCC families will get hurt more, fight amongst yourselves."   (And this combined with the way they are taking the DCC away from us and hurting some of our schools with the program changes is just adding insult to injury.)

Wr don't want anything crazy, just a basic sense of fairness.  But that is apparently too much to ask.[/quote]

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