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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not read through all of the previous posts, so I apologize in advance if I'm missing something, but for those who state that diversity is their main goal - do you think that bussing kids from one end of the county to the other, the result being only a slight change in diversity is more important than having kids bussed out of their neighborhoods and schools that they can walk to?  It's fine if that is the thought, I'm just wondering if it is.[/quote]

The prior pages have some nuance to these positions that might be worth reading, but in a nutshell: it depends. As with anything else, the intensity of a preference varies by person along with what they're willing to give up and/or demand to get it. I personally don't think there's much support anywhere for busing kids from "one end of the county to the other" and there certainly aren't any such proposals on the table. The proposal that is on the table is taking some number of Swanson walkers and putting them on a bus to Kenmore. I personally would vote to make that trade in exchange for a change in diversity numbers. You characterize it as "slight" but to me it looks more like a 9% point swing, if compared to option F, another one folks have brought up for discussion. To me, that is a significant change in diversity. However, I don't have kids at either Kenmore or Swanson, so I'm neither sacrificing nor gaining anything. Perhaps that makes me looking out for the good of the county as a whole; perhaps it makes me pie-in-the-sky imposing "social experiments" on others.

Rhetoric is often not useful when discussing these issues. [/quote]

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