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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread!!

1. West county snobs who are defensive their kids aren't in magnets.
2. East county hippies who are defensive their kids are in magnets. 
3. Some annoyed Asian moms who just want good test scores.
4. All of the groups tying themselves into knots to explain that it isn't racism that makes them frightened of poor children. They want to say it's the gangs, but they're too frightened that will sound racist.

Seriously, after having experienced high Ses moco schools and low ses Moco schools, you couldn't pay me to send my kids to a W or Blair. It's just so toxic. [/quote]
Then why are east county progressives calling for busing?[/quote]
They aren't. That's just you. [/quote]
I stand corrected.  The DID call for busing but after 90+ percent do the county said no thanks to busing, the issue seems to have simmered down.  But no one should pretend that the wokes at One Montgomery weren't actively lobbying for busing in 2018/19.[/quote]

That's the problem with making blanket statements. If 90+ percent of the county doesn't want busing then all east county progressives DIDN'T call for busing. I live on the east side of the county and my politics lean progressive. I don't want my kid bused to the west side of the county and I don't know anyone else in my neighborhood or friend group that does.[/quote]

There was never a plan for "bussing" in the sense of moving kids across the county. There is, however, a desperate need for boundary revisions because the current boundaries are a mish-mash of 60 years of new build, density coming to some places and leaving others, etc. The school boundaries look like gerrymandered congressional districts, and you can't fix that piecemeal - you need to go in an do a comprehensive fix. When they do so, ONE of the factors they consider will be demographics, but MCPS has been clear that only adjacent boundaries will be shifted. So, maybe you take kids from my kids' school, which is enormously overcrowded to the point that the specials teachers are all on carts, and move them to the next school over, which apparently has 5 empty classrooms. Our MS and HS feeder patterns are the same, and my kids would attend a school that isn't absolutely bursting at the seams. [/quote]
Of course there was a busing plan.  It started in 2018 when the BOE made demographics/di eraotty the most important factor in the boundary policy.  It's even more important than geography/proximity.  So it's revisionist history to pretend that SOME east county progressives (including a few on the BOE) wanted busing in the traditional sense.  One even said she wanted to do this to box in all future boards of education because it was "our values.". Insane.

The adjacency argument was always BS.  When you draw a map from scratch, there is no adjacency.  It's all scrapped and drawn anew.  The architects of MoCo busing knew this which is the reason they ordered the boundary analysis right on the heels of the boundary policy change.  They thought no one would notice.  Whoops.[/quote]

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