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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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

Actually, the studies indicate that is the solution. [/quote]

Not really. truth is there have always been ghettos, there has always been under-classes, there has always been little hope for ways out for the people at the bottom and capitalism at its very core requires an exploited class (producing) AND a working poor class ( distributing) that comprises a very large segment of society. Someone has to sell shoes and sweep floors

You can pick different winners and losers or shine the spot light on specific disenfranchised and effect local change but it is all redistribution at some point. The studies you speak of, talk losely about individual social mobility for specific children who benefit from want amounts to supplementing/subsidizing their exsistince to replicate a higher standard of living. That has show to increase the likely hood of better results for kids with lower expectations. That said those kids still fail at greater rates and the rate of return hasn’t been analyzed to show if other methods shed greater results. That and there isn’t enough $$$ to treat all the poor kids to the rich kid lifestyle so those kids shipped to “good schools” will leave bad schools full of kids behind.

[/quote]i think this brings up a point.

Are be bring the concentrated schools down out of fairness to the undesirable ones or are trying to fix something that is still getting worse?[/quote]

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