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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons.  Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist?  Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. [b]What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment. [/b]

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base.  Nothing more.  Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.[/quote]

Well they didn't do that, so no reason to be annoyed.[/quote]

Yes the did. Read MCPS policy FAA directly from their own website:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/faa.pdf

Page 7:

[quote]
Analyses of options take into account the impact of various options on the
overall populations of affected schools. Options should [b]especially[/b] strive to
create a diverse student body in each of the affected schools in alignment
with Board Policy ACD, Quality Integrated Education[/quote]

Emphasis mine. That word was added at the last minute, and was not in the original draft.[/quote]

There are 4 factors: demographic, geographic, stability and facility.

The document does not say diversity is especially more important than geography.

The document is saying when taking demographic into account diversity is especially important.

It never says demographic/diversity is more important that geography, stability or facility.[/quote]

Well the board absolutely thinks that diversity is weighted more. Refer to board of Ed meetings from sep 13 and 24 in  2018. The intent of adding this word is to give  diversity a higher priority. Jill O. who was on the board last yr spearheaded this and when one board member raised concern that adding this word would box us in to certain options, she replied that she absolutely wanted to be boxed in.[/quote]

But obviously they are NOT moving kids to an overcrowded school for diversity. Even though your ears interpret what as said in a biased way... in practice the #1 priority is ... is there room (facility), the #2 is geography and #3 is diversity. Also... I can't think of a time that "stability" was not achieved... So move stability to #1, move the rest down 1 and you literally have diversity as #4. When they say it is essential, they can't allow some rube come in and cut boundaries that are segregated. [/quote]

Although geography may play some role in parts of the county, it doesn't seem to in the DCC. Take Blair for example, which is the largest and most diverse high-school in the county, it serves a completely different area than where it's located. People who live next to it are assigned to Northwood and the reality is there aren't a lot of other options. There aren't any high-schools inside the beltway in the earn half of the county.[/quote]

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