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Sure. But I don't see how that's inconsistent with the above: "[i]It may not be feasible to revise all boundaries[/i], however, there are many schools in MCPS with 
adjacent school boundaries that have both significant disparities in socioeconomic and racial demographics and disparities in facility utilization."[/quote]

I really don't think there are that many.  And for at least some of the schools with adjacent boundaries that have significant disparities, it is not the communities close to the boundary line that are materially different from the less diverse school.  So you cannot "balance" out the schools by including neighborhoods that are near the boundary line.  You'd have to move kids/neighborhoods that are much further away, toward the other side of the second school's boundary line, in order to change the demographics at the first school.  At least that is my observation in my little area.  I'm not saying there might not be tweaks that would make some improvement.  But I think overall it's going to be very small improvements unless it is a pretty radical change in moving kids longer distances to go to elementary school (as some clusters in the County already do - see RH/NCC/CC).  [/quote]

I don't understand why more people don't embrace diversity bussing.[/quote]

The people in Silver Spring don't care about diversity, they just want to offload large chunks of their poor kids dragging their schools down to the Ws because they don't think it is fair that they have so many when the nice areas have so few. Doesn't matter that they chose to live in Silver Spring and should have known what they were getting into. They act like if only they went to school with a buch of rich kids that looked down on them their lives would all change for the better. It isn't true, the main people who would benefit form busing poor kids out of area are the people in the area they are leaving. That is why Silver Spring pretends to care.

If they really cared they wouldn't fight for what ever term is currently being used for in school segregation such as enrichment, HGC, Magnet, GT or Immersion. These programs are lotteries where the W's just pay a mortgage tax to avoid those kids. Not much different than the hot lanes on 495. Not being able to afford to avoid the poor kids should tell you something.  [/quote]

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