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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are coming at this from a white person's perspective.  Some of the people who fight the hardest against the 85% FRL schools being broken up are the people who are in those schools.  Why?  They don't have a problem with the way things are and they enjoy their school community.

Go ask parents at Randolph if they want to be bussed out of their neighborhood and up to Tuckahoe instead.  They will slam the door in your face.[/quote]

Because there is a tipping point for a FARMS rate in a school that when the FARMS rate exceeds it, the education provided to all students declines.  And that has been proven over and over.  Reducing the FARMS rate is actually an equality issue in education.  White people just don't like to hear it.[/quote]

Assuming that you don't plan on bussing kids across the county, what is the solution? [/quote]

Why do you ask for solutions by precluding solutions?  What a stupid qualifier - without transporting kids, what's the solution to getting kids to different schools?

The answer to your purposefully impossible question is to change housing policy and wait a hundred years.  In the meantime, many other things can be done - that involve transportation - to improve school diversity.[/quote]

Invest a crap ton of money in the schools with most need. increase the teacher to student ratio. Beef up the schools. [/quote]

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