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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Option 3 has got to be the throw away option. [/quote]

It has united DCUM in opposition to it.[/quote]

Do you think those lower income clusters are going to benefit from being shipped across town? Do you think their parents want the extra commuting time and costs, much less to be surrounded by a bunch of affluent families who most definitely don't want it? I think the universal feedback is people want to attend local schools in their neighborhoods that aren't overcrowded. If they can enhance diversity and minimize overcrowding around the edges, then great! Anything else is an exercise in social engineering and will make just about everyone unhappy. [/quote]

This! Even many students in lower socio economic schools don’t want to be bussed away, they want equality in resources. This should be the focus![/quote]

I'd nuance that by saying the focus should be reasonable equivalence of educational service levels instead of equality in resources, and I hope that's more what was meant.  Some might interpret "equality in resources" as "the same funding" for each school and that would not allow the system to provide equivalent services across schools while there are considerably different conditions/populations among them.[/quote]

Your first explanation is what I meant. totally happy to have more dollars allocated to other schools if it would mean helping to boost achievement and success for the students at those schools[/quote]

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