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[quote=Anonymous]Here's a scenario that you can perhaps wrap your brains around - You're shown a list of nearby schools for your little kids, and you find out that they will not be going to the closest one.  Okay, fine you say, perhaps it'll be number 2?  You understand that some schools are crowded, and that there are often REASONABLE exceptions to many common sense boundary rules.  Nope, they tell you.  You're then given the realization that your kid will be going to a school that's literally twice as far as the #1 closest school and that there are 4 other elementary schools that are literally *MILES* closer.  Why you ask are the kids going to the 5th closest school and forced to commute TWICE as far?  Oh, because we want to maintain the success of FARMS and ESOL integration at this #5 school.  You do a little math and realize each of your little kids will be bused nearly 1000 extra miles per school year (nearly 3000 unnecessary toddler commuting miles over k-2) to help out in this involuntary social experiment.  By no sensible measure is this a reasonable proposal.

Sorry, overtly touting diversity and demographics as an excuse (as has been done here in this thread) to unnecessarily bus little children ADDITIONAL 1000s of miles on county roads, outside of their home communities  under the veil of your novel social experiments doesn't cut it.   It didn't cut it in the 50s and 60s when blacks were forced to ride those extra miles for the sake of segregation and separation.  Second, it's long since been determined under the law as unacceptable, and through statistical analysis, as an EDUCATIONAL FAILURE when it was done in the 70s for the sake of integration.  Lastly, it doesn't cut the mustard today under the auspices of using "FARM" and "ESOL" percentages as a workaround metric to the illegal practice of using racial demographics as a boundary criterion.  In keeping with the principles of "It takes a village" that liberals so dearly espouse, do children not deserve to go to a school that's nearer to said village, instead of involuntarily busing them to a school that's literally a distant of 5th or 6th down on the list away from and outside of said village.   I guess "it takes a village" only applies as long as you're towing the progressive line, never mind the actual needs and benefits to childhood development, and common sense commuting patterns, as well as the taxpayer and environmental costs of school busing.  So much for consistency of liberalism, eh?  It only makes sense when it suits YOUR particular needs.

In reality, I think you're deeply misguided and inconsistent in the application of your purported beliefs.  You need to take the liberal goggles you so proudly espouse off to understand the best interests of the children.  Yours is an example of radical, out of control, BIG GOVERNMENT, interceding into our communities and families under the auspices of thinking you know what's best for the personal lives of families and kids other than your own.  It's because of this type of overreach into American's lives that we'll thankfully be experiencing a backlash that moves us further away from your mentality after the 2012 elections (even if not in MC, then at least on a national level).

Let's be clear here, it is disgusting and repulsive that residents in the county think it's okay to overtly flout their politics, and liberal "progressivism" in hanging on to an outdated social experiment at the expense of common sense, the true best interests of these children, and what amounts to nearly SIX THOUSAND additional and unnecessary miles for my kids (over a 3 year period)  by way of doubling their commuting distance to get an early elementary education.  To get on here and suppose to minimize this burden you put on the kids and other families reeks of an arrogance unbecoming the ideals that you purport to espouse.

As JP Morgan once said, there are "There are usually two reasons people do things – a good one and the real one."  10/27 @ 23:51 hit the nail on the head.  Rosemary Hills Elementary in Montgomery County, MD can continue to build upon their reputation with this selfish, covertly racist practice of school busing under the guise of some misguided progressive ideal, but the public is not fooled.

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