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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Way back when Chicago schools were extremely segregated there was a big lawsuit. The Winston Churchill or TJ school with “best teachers” and “”best facilities” was forced to take all the students from the inner city run down school with “bad teachers”

Literally all the students switched schools. Guess what happened. The bad school grades and scores shot up and those bad teachers became good teachers almost overnight.

The good school became a bad school. So much is the teachers and parents. [/quote]

*shrug*

Here are the facts:

1. There will be a boundary study
2. The boundary study will have a public input process
3. Boundaries will change
4. Some people will complain
5. The sky will not fall[/quote]

[b]In previous boundary changes, has the public input process ever amounted to significant change from the presented options?[/b] Or is it just a venting process meant to make people feel like they are heard?[/quote]

Yes, it often leads to additional options.[/quote]

HoCo's 2019 redistricting was widely criticized, and it did not lead to additional options that addressed criticisms to be presented.

Instead, the media covered the plans and shut down criticism by labeling it as right-wing.

In hindsight, much of the criticism turned out to be correct. The longer bus rides have contributed to the district's bus issues. Neighborhoods were split, so that young children make friends who then separate where they didn't before. You can find both of these complaints mentioned in media coverage from the time. And we can now see from the data that these efforts failed to make meaningful changes in the demographic makeup of these schools, but the district is now stuck with the longer bus rides and split communities.

So as far as seeing additional options - I'll believe it when I see it. [/quote]

Whatever, PP. If you want to carry on about how horrible the MCPS boundary studies will be, based on your interpretation of something that happened in a different school district, go right ahead.[/quote]

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