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So why is it that economic diversity seems to be the primary factor ("especially") that the current BOE is pushing?  It has also disregarded proximity at countless BOE meetings where hundreds of parents spoke about the importance of attending neighborhood schools.[/quote]

No, it doesn't, and no, it hasn't.[/quote]

I'd like PP to come and tell us exactly which BoE decision disregarded the parents' feedback. Yes, people said neighborhood schools were important to them, to which MCPS said "Great, because they are important to us as well."

It's just that folks don't believe MCPS, but there's no facts behind that lack of belief, just feelings. [/quote]

I think it was the BOE meetings where parents (by the hundreds) attended and spoke against using economic diversity as a reason for a boundary study.  Those parents seriously question the BOE's "feeling" that economic diversity will improve student performance.  The BOE also disregarded those same parents' feeling about a significant increase in busing and the effect that would have on all sorts of things, like traffic, student safety, bus/fuel expenditure, extracurricular activities, etc...

I'm still wondering why the BOE thinks that moving the school boundaries is the least disruptive solution for its perceived lack of economic diversity problem.  If school overcrowding is the real issue, then drop economic diversity.

P.S.  Folks don't believe MCPS because it's shaded things so much over the past couple of decades to cover up its mismanagement of over $2.8 billion annually, and folks don't believe the BOE because it's taken what the MCPS says at face value.[/quote]

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