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The other infuriating issue about this is that the BOE seems to think that the kids who need extra help will magically score better when moved to lower farms school.  The school's average will probably get better but until they actually help the students who are having trouble with catching up, they, as an individuals will not improve.  They are going to be treated as a % in a pool of kids that are not having issues.  My friends who are in focus schools and Title 1 schools definitely have more resource and help, these resources are not available to schools with low farms.  However I do hope that there is accountability on the funding to make sure that all kids who need help are given what they need and we're not just throwing money at a problem.  In my opinion, there are current issues that they need to address- like the way they forecast the student population( biggest culprit of the current issue), kids who are falling behind, and proper accountability of school funding.  [/quote]

Maybe MCPS and BoE are saying that boundary adjustments for capacity/transportation/demographics will completely and permanently solve all problems related to poverty. But if they are, I haven't heard it.[/quote]

They are just going to shuffle the deck, there will be new best schools and worst. The people making 200k plus will flock there and push the imbalances back to similar levels. The schools simply can’t make rich people live conveniently near the unwashed masses.

There isn’t a world where MCPS can bus kids of high SES to places they don’t want to go. They will opt out. You can rezone the over extended rich/poor types but only for a little while before all the new ones of them in the future opt out.

You can bus poor kids to rich areas because they don’t have a choice. The real rich will flee the school and short term smaller class sizes might help smooth the bump to the plummeting test scores that will be used as a weapon and proof of the inferiority of the new kids.

Problem is the best of the nice high schools aren’t anywhere near poor kids. Which ironically is why they are so highly regarded 
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