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When did I say I don't want a kid from anywhere sitting next to my kid?  I want my kid at the best school possible, as does, I'm sure, the parents of the kid from five miles away.  All kids deserve a great education.  He's welcome to sit with my kid and they can learn from and alongside each other.  But I'm not sending my kid to a lower-performing school to make some PC point.  It's a housing affordability issue.   Bring kids whose parents can't afford a W school in?  Absolutely.  Force kids whose parents made sacrifices to live very close to that school out of it?  Nope.  [/quote]

I think that people who don't live in Chevy Chase/Bethesda/Potomac will not be very sympathetic to your talk of sacrifices. Because

1. Lots of people make sacrifices for their children's education, and lots of people who make sacrifices for their children's education still can't afford to live in Chevy Chase/Bethesda/Potomac.
2. Sending your kid across the county to go to school is also a sacrifice -- a sacrifice that you think the children of affluent parents shouldn't have to make, or so I infer. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

A better tactic is talking about how neighborhood schools support the community, and you're all about building the community. That tactic has worked for the Chevy Chases, Bethesda, and Potomac for decades.[/quote]

Yes, you are wrong.

1.  Of course others make sacrifices.  I never said they did not.  Acknowledging one person's doesn't eliminate another's.  
2.  If an affluent person makes a decision to live within a certain school's boundary, no, they should not have to send their kid across the county to go to school.  Yes, those boundaries may change and that's life, but the fact remains that if you make a decision with a reasonable expectation (that school boundaries won't change or at least not significantly), those expectations shouldn't be eliminated because others weren't able to make the same choices.  If a fantastic charter school opened up across the county that I thought that was best for my kid, of course I'd sacrifice to take them there.  I never said "children of affluent parents shouldn't have to make that sacrifice."  That's putting words in my mouth, which I assume you know.

What I'm saying really isn't that complicated.  It isn't PC, but it isn't complicated.  
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