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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of talk about what happens when the less affluent students are introduced into the more affluent schools.  Why aren't we re-drawing the lines or proposing bussing that would start assigning the well-off kids to the schools with high FARMS rates?  [/quote]

Because putting poor students in affluent schools is already politically difficult enough. A plan to put affluent students in poor schools would be dead on arrival. Plus, even if it weren't, affluent parents would take their children out of public school and put them in private schools. Nobody loves the idea of sending their child halfway across the county to go to school, but affluent parents are able to buy their way out of it.

Now, if you had a magic wand that you could wave to implement Warren Buffett's solution of assigning children to public schools by random lottery, plus ban private schools, that would be different. [/quote]

[b]How about putting affordable housing all over the county?[/b]

Housing.  It is all about housing.[/quote]

Sure! But you'd need a magic wand for that, too, if you wanted there to be meaningful change within the next few years.[/quote]

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