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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From a political and logistical standpoint whether you agree or not with concentrating poverty in a hypothetical new Hutchinson Western HS, such an option would cause the fewest tailwinds.

Such posters may come around as elitist. But isn’t this the same for college decision making, when parents choose the most prestigious academic institution? Why shouldn’t middle class parents try to increase the academic prestige of their high school via engineering test score increases? Don’t parents send their kids to college in an environment as safe as possible? Why shouldn’t middle class parents try to eliminate populations that are disproportionately causing issues within their schools? I’m sure that is against the values of the more progressive posters that preach equity, but for most county residents that include many center of left democrats this is a valid concern advanced by their humanely instincts. [/quote]

For one thing, the concept of high school prestige is nonsensical because public schools can't choose who attends (ignoring selective magnets). FCPS is a public school system funded by taxpayers and hence it should work in the best interest of [i]all[/i] students and populations.

If residents want their children to be surrounded by only a specific population, or demand that their neighborhood schools remain segregated enough that high-poverty children do not attend their school, then those residents should be willing to pay for private school in order to escape the regular population.[/quote]

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