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One can hope that future school boundaries result in demographics that reflect the overall county and less segregated than today.[/quote]

Just stop. You can’t chase demographics all over the county. Poolesville is inhabited by mostly White people. When black peoples move in, they enroll in the local school. Then their kids go to that school. Because the school system is not segregated. People do self-segregate. There are a wide variety of reasons that happens and we all know that many of them are not productive and many of them reflect past injustice, current injustice, blatant racism, incorrectly assumed racism, legal immigration,  illegal immigration, and many many other factors. Some people just like to live around people who have a shared heritage or live near their church, and have no negative feelings toward other races. Some people immediately sell their house if a person of color moves next door and drive their car to Nebraska. Good riddance to those people. But the fact remains that people live where they live. When we try to chase people around and perfectly balance the racial demographics we have other negative ramifications. Demographics change continually in this transient area. We can’t move kids every few years to try to fix a problem that has many other solutions or to fix a problem that is too deep rooted for this to fix simply by redrawing boundary lines.[/quote]

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