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[quote=Anonymous]"Also, I think it's important to note that it's not like the school is bringing all these kids into the neighborhood from far away. These students live in the neighborhood."

I didn't realize that.  Do you know who the kids are?  Definitely multiple and geographically separated neighborhoods feed into Eastern.  Even for elementary school in that neighborhood across from Eastern they have an old-school civil rights busing arrangement that tries to bridge the geographic and SES gap with a less affluent part of Silver Spring that is on the border of PG county.   That out-of-neighborhood school is located in what was once an incredibly rough part of Silver Spring a mile or two further down University Blvd.  Although I think the passage of time has improved that area dramatically, it would be wrong to pretend it's in the same neighborhood.  So it may not be that kids are being bused from all over the county to attend the non-magnet part of Eastern, but I think you'll find that there are kids coming together at Eastern from very different neighborhoods that aren't easily walkable to eachother, with some of those neighborhoods comprised of modest single family homes and some of them having high-density low-income housing. [/quote]

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