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No, it clearly does not say that. It mandates [i]absolutely nothing[/i]. It asks them to [i]try[/i] for diverse student bodies, while [i]also[/i] trying to improve proximity, and utilization, and stability, while looking at [i]adjacent[/i] schools. They have been using the revised policy in the last four or five boundary studies, and in every case they have simply looked for opportunities to reduce existing disparities between neighboring schools. Which is a good thing for a public school system to do. Sometimes they've succeeded, sometimes they've barely moved the numbers. In several instances they have rejected options that would have improved the diversity numbers because they would not have advanced the other factors. The policy supports this.[/quote]
False.  It says that they BOE [b]must[/b] especially dlatribe to create more diverse schools.  Given where people of different demographics often live, increasing diversity can only make proximity worse.  And as the boundary analysis shows, 90% of the county doesn't really case about the skin color of their kids classmates.  Only a handful of white east county progressives care about this.[/quote]
Edit: especially strive[/quote]

You're incorrect. Here is the sentence, which we should all know by heart now: "Options should especially strive to create a diverse student body in each of the affected schools in alignment with Board Policy ACD, Quality Integrated Education."

There's a difference between [i]must[/i] and [i]should[/i]. The policy says [i]should[/i], which means they should try, not they have to. (It is also about the [i]options[/i], which are several choices that are presented, and it does not mandate that any one option is the one selected.) That's why even since the revision, they sometimes have and sometimes have not created especially diverse student bodies. You can look at the Bethesda/Somerset/Westbrook study and see how just last month there were differing results for each school, some more diverse, some less diverse.

Bethesda's FARMS rate barely changed, from 12% to 13%.
Somerset's FARMS rate dropped, from 12% to 9.7%.
Westbrook's FARMS rate increased, from 1.2 to 6.6%.

And of course all of these rates are far below the countywide average of 38.7%, and yet there was not a single option even considered that bussed kids in "from far away" in order to mitigate this. So the policy just isn't doing what you keep claiming it is doing.[/quote]
Oh ok. [b]So it says the BOE should especially strive for busing, not has to do busing.[/b]  Got it.  In either case, 90% of the county doesn't even want them to consider it, let alone strive for it.

And the example you picked is one of the wealthiest areas of the county where they still bused a good number of kids they really didn't need to.  The BOE's priorities are way off as is the underhandedly altered boundary policy.[/quote]
Holy misconstruing, Batman!  :shock: [/quote]

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