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[quote=Anonymous]Just curious, what are the PPs defining as "middle class"? Something tells me they define themselves as middle class, and like every other subset of MoCo, they have convinced themselves that MCPS is out to get them specifically.

Oh, and to the people at the beginning of this thread extolling their childhood experiences in wonderfully inclusive public schools in small New England towns, please give me a break. I grew up in one of those too, and if you think the differentials between the richest and poorest there were anywhere near what they are here, you're delusional.

MoCo is just too big and too diverse to do everything right. It does a lot of things well, in my view. Achieving a common racial and economic balance in its schools is not one of them. But I think that's a problem that is really bigger than the schools themselves. And what can the county really do at this point - you can't retroactively mandate economic diversity, and sorry, busing is just not a practical solution given the size and distances (and of course all the other problems that were associated with big busing programs historically.)

I don't have a solution, but I do agree there is a big problem. I don't think it's unique to this area, it just plays out differently in other areas (including in those lovely NE towns, where the better school systems always command a premium for home prices.)[/quote]

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