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This has to be a joke.  [b]Do you really not see how you have proven my point?[/b]

1. Then Churchill stays low diversity and Whitman doesn't.
2.  The reverse
3.  Both attain higher diversity through boundary changes that require busing.  (It is also possible that the County would make more minor changes to either or both schools boundaries.  But then, you still have low diversity.  This could apply to 1 and 2 as well, but in any case you are back to one of the two possibilities I raised.)
4.  Both schools remain low diversity.
5.  It is hard to see how the concept of boundaries changing (for example all lottery, or free for all) wouldn't lead to a lot of busing.  And of course these fail the realistic requirement.[/quote]

What's your point? That things might change, or they might stay the same?[/quote]

You cut off the rest of the discussion where my point was quite clear.

Given the geography and demographics,[b] there is no way that relatively minor boundary adjustment will lead to meaningful diversity at those schools.[/b]  Therefore, MCPS will find it impossible to achieve their goal of simultaneously increasing diversity while avoiding long bus rides.  Something will have to give and I don’t pretend to know which it will be.

If you believe that there is a way to add meaningful diversity to those schools without requiring significant busing, please explain how that could be accomplished.[/quote]

NP -- but I don't think they can or will make all schools equally diverse. I don't think they've said anywhere that that is the goal.  They are looking at four factors - and diversity is one.  Obviously there are logistical limitations to what they can do....[/quote]

I agree, although I would say there is a difference between “meaningful diversity” and “equally diverse.”

There are examples of significant FARMS disparities among schools not too far from each other.  Say one school is 80% FARMS and the other is 20%.  If relatively minor border adjustments made it 60% and 40% that would make significant progress, although it still wouldn’t be equal.  That’s more of what they seem to want to do.

Whitman and Churchill are both very low FARMS, I believe under 5%.  If that could be raised to 20 or even 15%, that would be a meaningful change, even if that were still significantly lower than other schools and therefor nowhere near “equal”.  But it won’t be easy to make even those modest improvements given geography and demographics.[/quote]

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