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[quote=Anonymous][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/]

LOL.  Or perhaps it isn't "fascism".  Person B is not petitioning the school board to change boundaries. Boundaries need to be changed because schools are overcrowded.  
It seems like this wouldn't have been an issue if the new middle school was built to hold more than 1000 students.  [/quote]

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