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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they implement some sort of radical boundary change, you can pretty much guarantee that it will be the less-affluent but-still-middle-class families who will get the short end of the stick.  MCPS will claim to solve a problem by moving some boundaries around to reassign a few middle class neighborhoods into predominately poor schools.  It will be the neighborhoods that lack the political muscle of places like the Whitman cluster.  The Whitman and Bethesda folks, on the other hand, will defend their territory and boundaries more effectively for the same reason lots of things work out for them: they've got more money to make things go their way from a political/influence standpoint.  If anyone followed what happened with the New Hampshire Estates and Oak View unpairing dispute that took place a year or two ago, it was a great lesson in how MCPS pays lip service to implementing programs that achieve diversity and prioritizes being able to check a box to say something was done rather than paying any mind to whether what was done was effective.  They implement meaningless programs like ineffective pairings for show in the neighborhoods that lack any political clout to prevent it, but silently ignore the fact that they're not pulling the same stunts in the Whitman and other W clusters.

So for all of the underdogs out there who thing boundary shifts will be a great equalizer and will benefit you personally, be careful what you wish for.  Because you may think your current assignment sucks, but MCPS may find a way to make it even worse lest they be forced to take any action that would rock the boat in those parts of MoCo that really call the shots.

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OK, so what's your proposed solution?[/quote]

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