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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh OK.  I'll put it all together for you.  We got the notion that MPCS was going to start busing from the BOE, the superintendent, the former MCCPTA president and some of its current officers, posts from woke progressives, and from these two: https://s19499.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/featured-image-mcps-boundary-study-walter-johnson-300x234.jpg
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They've said they'd like to balance adjacent clusters. They haven't said anything about "going to start busing" beyond that.

But you keep on with your delusions. They seem comforting to you.[/quote]

Of course they won't say they're going to start busing.  Busing was a disaster.  But a rose by any other name is still a rose.  And moving kids from one school to another to race balance the schools is still busing.  So "balance adjacent clusters" = busing.  Luckily, the boundary analysis shows that 85 to 95% of Montgomery County doesn't want anything even close to busing.  What they really want is to be left in their current schools.  Schools attend by poorer families would probably say they could use some more resources.  And despite the fact that these schools already receive millions of dollars more than schools in wealthier areas, I still support giving them more money.[/quote]
Balancing adjacent clusters by moving students an 1/8 of mile hardly rises to "busing" as you've been using it. Unless anytime a kid hops on a bus it's "busing".  :roll:

You're just trying, again and again, to stir controversy where there's none apparent. MCPS does plenty of things to get up in arms over, but this isn't one of them.[/quote]

Race-integration busing in the United States (also known as simply busing or by its critics as forced busing) was the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools.  So no matter the distance, if they move kids for the purposes of race-balancing, it's busing.  Conversely, the kids who are assigned to schools slightly farther away because of capacity reasons ISN'T busing.  See the differencce?  Probably not but other people will.  And that 1/8 mile applies if they only move the absolute best cases.  If they try to diversity the rest of the schools, kids will be on buses for many more hours a week.

And again, the people of MoCo made their voices heard loud and clear.  They don't want their kids moved AT ALL, especially not just for the progressive fantasy of every MCPS school looking racially identical.[/quote]

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