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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally am fine with low income housing in my neighborhood and am even fine with voluntary busing of low income kids to low FARMS schools *if that’s what those kids/families want.*[/quote]

Most won't be able to do it. Some families will and many adults I've spoken with whose parents did this when they were in school wish their parents hadn't pushed them to do it. And the impact on their zoned schools will be negative.[/quote]

I agree that busing kids has negative consequences for all kids that are bused.  But clearly it is something BOE is contemplating in order to (I guess?) help the low income kids.  Idk if BOE cares about what kids and families actually want (including the low income ones).[/quote]

BOE cares about the ability of MCPS to effectively educate kids and not create impossible environments for staff. Concentrating all the low income kids in certain schools typically means those schools have a large percentage of high needs kids and they don't really get much extra staff to address that (zero high schools are Title 1 or Focus schools). Of course parents of all backgrounds don't want long bus rides, why would they, especially if their older kids provide sibling care or extra income from an after school job.
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