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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
MCPS already does this. Kids in Darnestown who live closer to QO are bussed up to NW. Now with the new initiative to populate Seneca Valley one of the proposals is to bus the Darnestown kids past QO and NW over to Seneca Valley. Brown Station is its own island and gets bussed down to QO so QO isn't all white/high SES. Its not great for the BS kids because they are isolated and their HS is further from home. MCPS tried very hard to bus kids from GHS into Wootton. Wootton didn't object but the GHS neighborhoods did strongly object to being bussed past their nearby school down to Wootton. It didn't go through because the GHS neighborhoods put up such a huge fit but MCPS was pissed.

It shouldn't be an option because no rational person thinks that bussing is good or works. Even Bernie Sanders has said that taking kids away from their communities to be bussed based on the color of their skin or SES is wrong. He supports integrating communities not bussing kids around. Harris has also come out and said the is not in favor bussing either.

MCPS is not rational. They see this as way to hold off on some schools further declining in scores. They know perfectly well from their own data that bussing a bunch of white kids into a poor performing school does nothing to raise the performance of the low SES kids. What it does do is allow MCPS to hide the failures more. It benefits MCPS even though it hurts the students and the county. Whenever something benefits the central office -even if it hurts everyone else- well that's what they do.

So yes its an option and a very likely one. It will hurt the entire county and benefit no one but MCPS in their own minds. Good time to move.

Brown Station is only an island because they moved Diamond ES from QO to Northwest (when Northwest was built). It used to be contiguous. [/quote]

This is exactly the problem with busing. Diamond ES was ONLY moved out of QO and into NW to send more higher SES white kids to NW and Brown Station was kept in QO becoming an island because they wanted low SES minority kids at QO. Anytime a school district chooses to spit up contiguous areas to send kids to a different school based on their race its busing and no one likes it.

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Town of Kensington folks seem to be perfectly okay with busing and would like to continue busing their children.[/quote]

why should we pay to bus kinsington kids to far away schools when their are perfectly fine ones nearby[/quote]

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