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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I take from this thread is that DCUM thinks that diversity is not at all important and we should be carving up school districts on property values alone.[/quote]

OP here. It is not that diversity is bad. The issue is that forcing diversity to exist when it is not necessarily present is pointless. You can say that some parts of Northern Virginia have more white people and other parts have more Hispanic people, etc. and that is true. But the thing is that this is not necessarily a forced decision. I know for a fact that when my immigrant parents moved to Northern Virginia they purposely chose a house in an area with a lot of people from their same country. This isn't to say that there was nobody else living in that area, but there were definitely many people from my parent's country. If you told my parents that in the interest of equity I would be bussed to Great Falls Elementary School or Cooper Middle School or Langley High School they would not be pleased at all. The same thing would happen if you reversed the situation.

Does this say something about the mindset of the people living in this area or more broadly the world? Sure. But the fact is that when you choose to live somewhere there is a certain amount of discrimination inherent in the process. You discriminate based on the quality of schools, based on the cost of the house itself plus maintenance, based on your interaction with the sellers, based on the distance to your workplace, etc. Besides we have neighborhood schools for a reason; you should not have kids going past one middle school to go to another one further away. Same with high school and elementary school. Mind you, I think AAP centers should be done away with since I don't see any indication that those students are necessarily smarter than their peers in any significant way. I also don't think school districts should be drawn based on property values alone. But forcing Edison High School to become richer or Mclean High School to become poorer makes no sense. [/quote]

Nobody is seriously talking about bussing kids from Graham Road to Langley, but there are boundary adjustments that make proactive impacts on diversity while proving to be minimal logistically.

Does the board think that Timber Lane should be moved away from McLean?  It is roughly a 5 minute difference in commute between McLean and Marshall.  These are the boundary changes that we are talking about, not 1960s bussing.[/quote]

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