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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens to the allure of the W schools if the current students are no longer there?  Are they still perceived as better if the majority are bussed in from other areas and the IB residents choose private instead?  What happens when parent involvement declines because the IB parents are no longer involved and the current student body parents can't be involved because of things like work, lack of transportation, or any of the other current reasons that they are are currently not involved in their local school?[/quote]

Have you listened to the TAL podcast on school segregation?  It's called "The Problem We All Live With" and is about how desegregation is the ONLY thing that has ever worked for bridging the achievement gap.  The interesting thing is that it works without bringing down the scores or educational experiences of schools that were formerly overwhelmingly white.

Basically, there's scads of evidence that desegregation doesn't hurt white and Asian students, but does help Black and Latinx students, so the only reason that "W parents" would pull their kids would be racism.  [/quote]

Maybe I misunderstood how the desegregation would work---but I was under the impression that X% of students from Y area would attend school in Z area.  And then X% of students in Z area would attend school in Y area.    So the kids would be being bussed both ways.

I'm not convinced W parents pulling their kids would solely be about racism.  The W schools are the area of the county where the parents have the means to make a choice.  Asking parents and students to move their sense of community to the other side of town is a lot.  I like to cheer my kid and our neighbors on at the school sports events.  Maybe someone says they have to run an errand so another parent drives a neighbor child home and feeds them a snack.  Maybe the kids work on a project together after school.

At least in this area, bussing is not just about desegregation--it's about impacting peoples sense of community and you have to factor in traffic.  If you read the Jobs forum, when someone asks where should I live, the first response is where do you work?  Traffic in this area has a way of impacting quality of life.  [/quote]

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