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[quote=Anonymous][quote]And apparently it's an ugly, ugly meeting. [/quote]

You know it is 100% predictable that parents in any and all clusters would be angry about bussing studies and any future proposals they will produce. Neither high nor low income families want to be forcibly bussed. MCPS has learned this from past failed attempts to bus low income kids further away to higher performing schools. Anyone who has studied anything about educational policies knows that bussing was one of the worst controversial failures in public education history. Its simply not a popular mechanism to alter school demographics. If MCPS is going to attempt to put in demographic based bussing then it needs to withstand all the public condemnation that is coming its way OR it needs to put out a different compelling case as why why the COMMUNITIES not MCPS will benefit from it.

So far the only arguments that have been put forward in favor of bussing is saying that someone must be racist if you don't agree (hint this doesn't work if the person you are speaking to isa not white), pretending that it is not looking at diversity bussing while also claiming that it is (this is not going to work) or making false statements that data (even its own data gathered within MCPS!) disproves like busing high income kids into poor schools or vice versa raises scores. It doesn't and MCPS' own staff recently published report saying that high or low income school was not a predictor for an individual student's success or failure. The only consistent predictor was the number of years in a poverty a child spent and small bump in scores depending on the experience (# of years) of the teacher. MCPS needs to do far better if they intend to disrupt so many lives or they need to reverse course. [/quote]

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