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Because it's one school system, the quality of the schools and the teachers are the same,[b] well-off children perform the same no matter what school they go to[/b], and it's better not to concentrate poverty for any number of well-documented reasons. [b]You're not hurting your child, you're not really hurting your property values (which some have brought up)[/b], and you are helping other kids and helping reduce segregation which, in case you haven't noticed, is a problem in our society. [/quote]

The bolded are statements of opinion and not supported argument.[/quote]

I don't need a lot of social science to tell me that an upper middle class child in Arlington Virginia is not going to be permanently harmed by riding a bus to attend a middle school two miles from home with some kids who are poor and some kids who live in houses valued between $500K and $750K instead of $750K and $1M.

I don't need a lot of statistics to tell me that a house in a close-in suburb in an overall high-performing school district in the eighth wealthiest county in the country where home prices have risen 20 percent in the last decade is going to hold its value.

You're making excuses. [/quote]

Peer effects are real, and many of those peers will not be college bound for a variety of reasons -- so the likelihood of your child going to college is reduced. [/quote]

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