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OP, I thought about you last night and your concern.  I recommend that you join the Facebook Group [b]"Howard County School Redistricting Opposition"[/b].   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2481593048731404/

Group members are organizing a  protest on September 14th.  Go here for more information https://scotteblog.com/2019/08/31/walk-the-mall-protest-of-the-current-hcpss-redistricting-plan-scheduled-for-september-14th/

People who reside in Howard County that want to get their voices heard are welcome to join the Howard County School Redistricting Opposition group. [/quote]

[b]What about people who reside in Howard County who want to get their voices heard who support the proposed boundary changes?[/b][/quote]
Those who support it already have 3 known BOE members (Mavis, Taj, and Mallo) who will vote Yes on their side.  Also, there are county council members including the county executive who are %100 percent behind this social engineering experiment to bus students to schools 30-40 minutes away from their house.  [b]The folks opposing Dr. Martirano's plan[/b] are the ones who need to mobilize because the odds are not in their favor.

Taking students who are within walking distance to their neighborhood schools and placing them on a bus miles away outside of their communities is bussing.  Call it boundary changes, redistricting, etc.  It is bussing and it is going to rip communities apart.   There are people who are calling for the Dr. Martirano to resign because he has his hands in the back pockets of local politicians who are pushing for this.

I fully support diverse schools.  I wish magnet programs, tutoring, social services programs, etc. will be implemented into the majority of FARM schools.   However, bussing is what is on the table and it is not an effective solution.   Things are getting ugly in Howard County because over 7,000 students will be displaced.   The Baltimore Sun has  some articles about what is going on in Howard County. 
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Nah, people who support it also need to mobilize.

Also, while there may be some people who actually fully support diverse schools but also use the word "social engineering" to describe government policies they dislike, there aren't many.

And rezoning students from this school to that school, within the same school district, isn't displacement.[/quote]

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