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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL at the W posters trying to side-step the extreme economic segregation. [/quote]

You think they'd finally address the 40-year-old gerrymandering that led to this.[/quote]

Would you be ok breaking up all neighborhood schools and simply letting the system pick where your child goes based on a income and diversity mixing algorithm loosely factoring in commute time? Because it is going to be Tacoma park and 20910 kids having to be bussed to New Hampshire estates and the like to balance those schools and lots of those kids bused to the few richer east county schools. It’s all or nothing if you want to break the neighborhood school concept and the places with the highest concentrations and lowest levels of poverty will sill be the areas that feel it most today. [/quote]

Literally no one is proposing "breaking up all neighborhood schools." But there are numerous examples of schools which already have a lot of students riding a bus to get there, and these students could possibly ride a different bus in another direction to the adjacent school. That's it. If there's room at that other school and it would help make the demographics more similar between the schools, then why not at least consider it?[/quote]

The study the county paid for had different scenarios. None of which were radical. Some tweaked existing borders to improve diversity here and there but it wasn't at the expense of proximity. If you are actually interested in what might happen, I'd look at this. Most people will arrive at logical common sense solutions to these problems.[/quote]

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