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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every time anyone opposes long bus rides for any kids, or advocates for a W school, they are labeled racist.  In reality, some of us like community schools.  We want community (whatever color or household income) to get together at the school.  To see neighbors when we vote, go to a homecoming game, a meeting about a new development in the community, etc.  We do not want a consortium, where neighbors end up at different schools.  And, we are not racists for wanting this.[/quote]

I guess this is why: “White parents and politicians framed their resistance to school desegregation in terms like “busing” and “neighborhood schools,” and this rhetorical shift allowed them to support white schools and neighborhoods without using explicitly racist language.”

This quote isn’t about MCPS today. It’s about the Boston public schools desegregation fight in the 1970s.  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-boston-busing-crisis-was-never-intended-to-work/474264/

Nobody is proposing a massive busing project like this. But when affluent people get to control the “neighborhood schools,” everyone else (almost always low income black and Hispanic kids) gets less funding and support for their schools. [/quote]

There are significant differences between town and county school systems.  In Montgomery County, economic segregation doesn't lead to low income schools getting less funding because they are County funded and get more funding because of the challenges faced by many of their students.  If you look at the numbers for ES at least, you will see this.  E.g. - Arcola Elementary with 686 students has a total budget allocation of $7,577,845.  Kensington Parkwood Elementary with 657 students has a total budget allocation of $5,269,426.  Brown Station Elementary with 579 students has a total budget allocation of $6,608,683.

That doesn't mean there are no consequences to economic segregation, but they are not the same financial consequences as those suffered by low income students in towns right next door to high income towns where finances are completely separate and based on tax revenue.

I think it is a legitimate criticism to say that consortium-based solutions have a different effect on the community feel of neighborhoods than when everyone goes to the same schools.  But which schools everyone in the neighborhood goes to, well, it appears there are 5 high schools within 5 miles of my down-county house.  [/quote]

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