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Indefinsible is to take communities out of schools that they are happy with just to make you happy.  So, you want boundary adjustments just for the sake of equity?  No matter how inconvenient it is or how much pain it causes?

Do you really think it will help poor kids to put them on a bus and send them miles away from their own communitiy?  The kids who need those after school jobs?  The kids who babysit their younger siblings?  The kids who want have a way to school if they miss the bus?  The kids who will not be able to participate in after school activities because of a lack of transportation?

You really don't understand "equity."  
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Tearing apart the community is commonly presented as an excuse to keep everything the same. That works on the assumption that the current status of the situation is the "correct" status, and that it has "always been that way." It's a downward spiral when one pocket of poverty gets established, and it will stay that way without intervention.

Do we just give up and accept that Herndon will forever be a place where low-income families live, and poor kids have to be nearby so they can go to work after school, and we need to keep them in that state because that's just what poor people do? I'm sure many people would be in favor of that, but it's obvious that school boundaries are a significant factor in [i]further[/i] concentrating poverty.[/quote]

So, you think it is a good thing to tear apart communities?  Got it.[/quote]

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