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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like every single option except for #3 actually makes demographic disparities worse and benefits richer schools over poorer schools. And since the rich parents always seem to win in this county, I can't imagine we're actually going to get #3.  This sucks.

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I’m not sure what sucks. Sure diversity is great but shouldn’t come at the expense of forced bussing adding wasted time to kids and parents days which are better spent in school and extracurricular activities. Short of changes at the margins, as in shifting the edge of say Wheaton HS boundary to WJ, it’s hard to do this in a solid fashion.

Better solution would be to [b]create more affordable housing in areas to let people live in areas they might otherwise not be able to afford[/b]. Of course that’s hard to do without massive new communities, but the current MPDU percentages are quite low. Having 30% of the new townhome communities would be a huge increase 2x and could be a start. [/quote]

Waste of societal resources... Should we house one family in an expensive area or three families in a cheaper area?  How to choose which family gets to benefit?

And let me ask... do you live in a community with MPDUs?  I do, and the promise of middle class teachers and firemen did not materialize.  Instead, HOC and non profits have bought the units and subdivided many to house mentally ill, homeless folks, etc.  Yes, they need a place to live, but the people paying high market rates for their homes, plus high taxes to fund the purchase of units may not want to live next door.[/quote]

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