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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to try and summarize here.  Posters ideas are well intentioned but they won't work practically

To simplify let's say that higher income schools are generally in the Western part of the county

Redrawing boundary lines won't work because the western part of the county is more well off than the eastern part.   Schools in the eastern part of the county are always going to have higher FARMS rates

Ok so what if you bus kids from east of the county to west of the county.

Who do you select to bus?  Is it some kind of test? ok, then sure high performing kids from east county probably get a better education but the remaining kids are in an even tougher environment stuck in their home base schools

The only real way to get out of this is zoning adding more dense and affordable housing to West county but politically that will never happen and even if it did happen if schools start to increase in FARMS rates guess what.  The people currently living in Bethesda go private or move in search of a school with lower farms rates[/quote]
There are kids in Kensington who could easily got to Einstein, rather than WJ. The bus ride would be shorter. Heck, many of them could probably walk to Einstein. But the parents would start screaming and marching on Rockville with pitchforks.[/quote]

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