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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In what world is a parent Association not a reflection of the quality of parents? It seems like a fools errand to prop up a group that
 Can’t or won’t contribute themselves. [/quote]

Exactly that's why diversity busing is the only viable solution.[/quote]

That isn't a viable solution. You can't make rich parents go where they don't want to. All you can do is bus poor kids around. You can create carrot programs where rich, high achievers opt into and agree to be bussed to poorer schools which the county already does with the Magnet. But then the poor schools complain about the good stuff only going to the rich kids and demand they water down the selection requirements to allow poorer kids to access these carrot programs which defeats their original charter. At some point parents of lesser means will have to accept that the county can't endlessly supplement their kids to emulate an affluent upbringing. What next are the middle class parents going to have to pay for the poor kids to take the foreign travel trips in middle and high school, block the rich kids from driving their cars to school because not all the kids can afford them, force the back yard pool parties to invite the band kids? At what point are people responsible for their own arrangements and knowing that equality of outcome isn't a thing in the real world. [/quote]

Actually, you can by creating fair boundaries that represent actual communities and put an end to the longterm gerrymandering that have created this culture of haves and have nots.[/quote]

There is no good way to do it and you assume that the lower income school families WANT to be at the richer schools and want to go to those schools and some of us picked so our kids would not be in those schools.[/quote]

Wrong! Lower-income communities exist near wealthier ones today and simply adjusting existing boundaries would greatly improve the socioeconomic diversity within MCPS[/quote]

Exactly, the Wooton boundary is an excellent example of gerrymandering. 90% of those assigned to it are closer to another high-school and there's an island. It makes no sense geographically. [/quote]

*this*[/quote]

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