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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this panic all from the county THINKING about putting "poors" in your precious schools?[/quote]
For some, I think that is what it is about. For me, as a child of busing, I actually specifically chose where I live in MoCo so that my child can attend high quality schools without having to take a bus ever.

I would also say that, as a child of busing, while it was a good experience in many ways, I was also exposed to things at a very young age that I shouldn't have been and that still stay with me today (stabbings, gun suicides, gang fights, etc.). Sure that is the "real world", but the world where this stuff doesn't happen is also the "real world" too.

Beyond that, my kid has a hard time concentrating in class and adding more kids that act out in class to distract her from her work is not going to help her education. It actually actively hurts.

I have also learned over time that the difference between bad schools and great schools is not the hardware, but the software. It's like that chemistry that makes a winning sports team. It is hard to get and requires the time, money and dedication of a lot of people. If there are perceived to be free riders (as they say in economics), then what happens over time is that the impetus for parent to donate and volunteer, and for the teachers themselves to go the extra mile gets diminished.

[b]The solution to poverty is not to try and dilute it, because that doesn't work, but to address its causes[/b].[/quote]

One of the causes of poverty is high-poverty areas. One of the solutions is de-concentrating poverty. And it does work.[/quote]

So it works when you tell a brown child that his/her neighborhood and school are bad. So s/he will be sent to a majority white school b/c it's better.

So instead of improving a neighborhood and empowering people to take ownership of their community, we blow the community apart through busing.

yeah - That's worked very well for us over the past few decades, right?[/quote]

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