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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe what makes the most sense is to create more low income housing in the west part of the county then the farms rates at those schools will increase and it will be balanced.[/quote]

I live in west county and agree. Diversify neighborhoods through housing policy and send kids to schools that minimize commuting[/quote]

Agreed. But so far there is a ton of pushback on this. So it's left to MCPS to do the work the county can't manage. [/quote]

What?  No.  That’s not the role of the schools.[/quote]

Well these choices impact the schools and the quality of education that students receive.

The most offensive thing about this thread is how people talk about low income kids (which we all know in this county are mainly Black and Latino but of course some are White and Asian), as though they are all the same. They are all disruptive, none of them want to learn, their families are all bad. The rich White and Asian (and some Latino) kids are well-behaved and come from good families. GMAFB.

Most low-income kids come from families that care about their kids' education. Most low-income kids want to learn. But they are disproportionately placed in schools with much higher percentages of kids that are disruptive, whose home circumstances prevent them from learning. And in these schools there are numerous kids that want and can do advanced classes, but the numbers aren't quite enough to have the variety of classes that are available in the wealthier schools. These are tangible ways that MCPS education is directly impacted by housing segregation. Not to mention, having less diversity at the wealthy schools is not great for those kids either. I attended one of those school many years ago. I very much wish it had been more diverse.

I don't know what the answer is. I very much sympathize with families (of all backgrounds) that do not want their kids to have a long bus ride to school. I would not want that for my kid. But let's stop pretending that segregation doesn't impact education or that low-income kids don't want to learn. That's a pretty offensive and blatantly incorrect assumption.[/quote]

Fwiw I’ve read all pages of this thread and no one has stated anything like what you said.[/quote]

I have definitely seen these attitudes in this thread and commonly expressed on DCUM[/quote]

I’m sure you have seen them on DCUM but not on this thread.  You’ve made up a straw man in order to make a moral judgement.  [/quote]

Also, we're now talking about economic segregation, not racial or ethnic (although admittedly there's a lot of history that driving correlations between the two). I'm all for diversity at our schools as long as they can afford the UMC incomes and housing costs that go with it. However, I don't want [b]poor, disruptive[/b] kids with all kinds of behavioral challenges at my schools. I don't think any of us do. And if there are smart, driven less affluent kids who want to attend, then give them the opportunity to attend. Oh wait, the county already does that.[/quote]

As a Chevy Chase parent who sent kids to middle school magnets, which have "poor" kids and also to BCC which has a lot of wealthy kids, I can tell you your conflation of Poor=disruptive is completely wrong.  MoCo has many poor immigrant kids who are extremely bright, whose families value education as the sole means to success in the US, and who have much stricter family discipline than US families.  By contrast, at wealthy BCC, I saw a lot of wealthy kids who were very disruptive -- school drug dealers, rapists, and insubordinate privilege takers. [/quote]

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