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[quote=Anonymous]Let's see if I get this right by abstracting from all these distance, building quality, blah blah blah issues.
Person N's kid currently goes to a school with a low FARMS rate and does not want to be transferred to a high FARMS rate school.  Person S calls Person N a racist for this choice.
Person S would like person N's kid to be transferred to S's kids so that S's school's FARMS rate will be lower, thereby making S's school better.  Why doesn't person S call him/herself a racist as well?  After all, both are motivated by the desire to have their kids go to a school with a lower FARMS rate and both clearly think that FARMS rates are inversely correlated with school performance.

Next, let us look at the blah blah blah issues.
Person A would rather his/her kid go to the overcrowded, rat-infested shithole school S over the newly constructed, Taj Mahal-like school K with smaller class sizes.  Perhaps A's kid has a shorter walk to S or A thinks S's gym teacher is cute or some other reason.  Person B, on the other hand, thinks that Person A is full of shit when coming up with his/her personal rankings between S and K's desirability as schools for his/her (that is [b]A's[/b]) kid.  So, person B petitions the School Board for boundaries that will force A's kid to school K for the good of A's kid over the wishes of A.  Do we have a word for that?  Perhaps it is "fascism."[/quote]

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