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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do all county-based school systems around the country do this? Try to make everything equal among all schools in a county? I mean, technically, the schools are teaching the same curriculum, and in theory, [b]the teachers are no better or worse in certain schools, regardless of demographics[/b]. While I understand the concern over having some schools with higher FARMs  rates, I don't understand artificially modifying boundaries and forcing kids to travel half way across the county in the name trying to achieve equal demographic and socioeconomic distribution. Kids should go to school in or close to their community. Tilden MS is less than 1/2 mile from Farmland ES, and Woodward is probably a mile away, but you're proposing busing those students 30+ minutes to Parkland and Kennedy to attend school with kids who live no where near them?[/quote]

If you're familiar with MCPS and you've looked at the data, which is highly variable school by school, you know this is not true. So I don't know why you're even trying to float this is a plausibility. In theory and practice, there are "good" schools, "ok" schools and "bad" schools in MCPS. MCPS even admits this and this boundary adjustment is an attempt to address that. But how much they will be able to address that is not clear, since solving for the equity problem creates other problems, such as proximity, cost and freedom of choice.[/quote]

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