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I am concerned about low-performing students - doesn't matter if they are from a certain race or income group.

Am I that concerned so that I would want to start a compaign to remove them? No. And also I understand changes take more effort. So I am not for changes to the current situation. I am simply concerned enough so that I would resist any changes that could bring in more bad apples. Bringing in more low performing kids (again, doesn't matter if they are low performing white kids or asian kids or AA kids or hispanic kids or rich kids or poor kids) increases that chance so I would resist that.

If people believe there are benefits that outweigh the concerns, they can spell those out, but don't just dismiss these valid concerns.

[b]Is that so hard to understand?[/b]

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[b]Given that MCPS makes boundary decisions based on where you live[/b], not on what your test scores are -- yes, actually it is hard to understand.

If there were a discussion at your community pool about whether or not to include Neighborhood A, would you respond, "I am concerned about people who don't swim well - doesn't matter if they are from a certain race or income group."?[/quote]

If that was the only factor, then there would not be any changes.

If there were a discussion at my community pool about whether or not to include Neighborhood A, and if that is OPTIONAL, then saying "I am concerned that they don't swim well" - if it is true and if "we" swim well would be a valid concern. You may have better reasons to include them, but still them not swimming well is a valid concern.

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Right. "Lots of people in Neighborhood A don't swim well, and I don't want bad swimmers from Neighborhood A swimming at the same pool my kid swims at (although I'm fine with bad swimmers from my neighborhood swimming at the same pool my kid swims at), so I don't want to let Neighborhood A become part of the community pool."[/quote]

That's your choice of expressing your opinion. My choice would be: "lots of people in Neighborhood A do not swim well. But people from Neighborhood B swim better.   If given the choice, I would favor including B."

Is there anything wrong with that?
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It's not very a propos when the question is about adding Neighborhood A.[/quote]

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