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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Four pages of people explicitly defending segregated schools.[/quote]
But MCPS is not responsible for housing policies.  They are trying to de-segregate as much as they can by busing, much to the disgust of many parents.   What exactly is the school district supposed to do about the fact there are very few low income housing in certain parts of the county?   How can the school district force wealthier parents to live in the poorer parts of the county?  
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Heading on to five pages of people explicitly defending segregated schools...[/quote]
? How am I defending it? I'm saying school districts can't do much about housing policies. And you didn't answer the questions.  If you can answer that $64K question of how the school district can change housing policies, then you should run for the school board since you seem to think you have the answers.

And I don't live in a W cluster.[/quote]

School districts can do a lot about school policies, though.[/quote]

It seems to me that people are making assumptions that the school board can control certain things which they cannot.  In MoCo, housing values are based on schools.  [b]The better the schools[/b], the higher the housing costs.  Redistribute an ES with a lot of minorities to a W school and over time the neighborhoods that feed into that ES will trend wealthier and the poorer current residents will be forced out due to increasing rents.  If they want more diversity in the W schools then the county should buy large tracts of land and build low income high rise apartment blocks in places like Potomac and Bethesda.  I’m all for that, get low income people into the higher performing schools.  I’m not for that.  I’m not for creating future islands of wealth in a misguided attempt at social engineering that’s doomed to failure.  It feels a little bit like the school board wants to play a game of housing lottery.  I would wager some of their houses will magically appreciate from the final decision.[/quote]

"The better the schools" = the fewer poor/black/Latino kids at the school = the more segregated the schools.

People who say that the school board can't do anything about segregated schools because it's all about housing are defending segregated schools.[/quote]

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