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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The academic achievement gap between the different race groups, the gap between the red zone and green zone schools, and the gap between middle class kids ans FARM kids.  Which gap concerns you the most?  What if mcps starts a reverse magnet program?  Busing the poorest neighborhood kids, the low 20% kid from a heavily Farm/ESOL school to a school in the green zone for ES level.  The kids will have a choice of staying on for MS and HS.  
The gap between the schools will be reduced immediately, the red zone school will have more resource for middle class kids, and the green zone kids will see kids whose primary concerns are not the P or I on their report cards, the poor kids will feel the pressure to study hard.[/quote]

I wonder how the people in Bethesda/Potomac would react if MCPS proposed to do this.[/quote]

And here lies the problem - for some reason, the county is dead set on keeping western MC snowflake village. The high income families appear to have much more influence that the middle class. [/quote]

It's so strange to me that parents in high income schools would have a problem with a relatively small percentage of kids from a "poorer" area attending their school. No one is really going to flee Bethesda because a small percentage of the school population comes from outside Bethesda. Anyway, the reality at these poorer schools is that there is a decent amount of children from educated, upper middle class families who are zoned for those schools, but who attend private/parochial instead. So in a busing scenario based on school zones, I'm willing to bet there would be a fair amount of middle class kids included. Besides the fact that the perception that kids from low income families are somehow automatically trouble makers or a drain on resources is kind of bs. I think the problem is the critical mass of low income kids at some schools and high income kids at other schools. All to protect inflated property values? Everyone benefits from diversity. [/quote]

Curious:  how do you choose which in-zone kids to boot out of the Bethesda/Potomac school?  Because most of these schools are overcapacity with high class sizes, so unless you take kids out of their zoned schools, where will the extra space/resources come from?  Title I?[/quote]

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