Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 14:18     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


People who are anti bussing are also anti magnet school being put in silver spring only. They need to put have more magnet schools in other locations.


Not this again. The magnets are located in east county for a reason.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 14:13     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


People who are anti bussing are also anti magnet school being put in silver spring only. They need to put have more magnet schools in other locations.


Hey, guess what?

There already ARE magnet schools in other locations besides Silver Spring!
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 14:13     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


Your question does not make sense. Magnet is a voluntary program. It's not forced bussing. So not wanting forced bussing to far-away places and having the choice to bus to a magnet program is not inconsistent.

FWIW my kid attends a magnet and many of their classmates who live far way prefer not to ride the magnet buses and get to school via carpools.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 13:49     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
The bussing discussion was 6 years ago. We don't have enough buses or drivers. They should not offer busing to magnets and parents should supply it.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 13:48     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


People who are anti bussing are also anti magnet school being put in silver spring only. They need to put have more magnet schools in other locations.


It's incredibly stupid that the STEM magnet is in a corner of the county in the largest high school in the state, which has something like 24 portables. If you moved the STEM magnet from Blair to any other school you'd improve utilization and maybe more kids who can walk to Blair but get bused to Northwood could go to their neighborhood school.

If a magnet contributes to overutilization of a school it should be moved.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 13:44     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
My old school district had no busses or air conditioning or magnet schools.

We spent the money on teachers and lower taxes/
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 09:52     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


People who are anti bussing are also anti magnet school being put in silver spring only. They need to put have more magnet schools in other locations.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 09:22     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


I am against all the busing from some areas like Kensington to places like BCC or WJ. Why can't people use their neighborhood schools?



You understand not all kids can always attend the school that is the exact closest distance from them, particularly if the high school, middle school, and elementary school aren’t on the same block?

Where I live the closest elementary school goes to WJ, closest middle school goes to BCC and closest HS is Einstein. Constantly re-mixing kids feels much more complicated than just letting a kid go to BCC, particularly if it is close enough to ride a bike.


But I'm for neighborhood schools!
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 09:02     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


I am against all the busing from some areas like Kensington to places like BCC or WJ. Why can't people use their neighborhood schools?



You understand not all kids can always attend the school that is the exact closest distance from them, particularly if the high school, middle school, and elementary school aren’t on the same block?

Where I live the closest elementary school goes to WJ, closest middle school goes to BCC and closest HS is Einstein. Constantly re-mixing kids feels much more complicated than just letting a kid go to BCC, particularly if it is close enough to ride a bike.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 08:57     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Choice. If you want to bus your kid, great.


Bingo. Please look at the history of forced busing in the 70s. It was an absolute disaster everywhere it was tried. It would be especially problematic in our highly congested county. Just send kids to schools in their neighborhoods.

Disaster for whom?

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/7/1/21121022/did-busing-for-school-desegregation-succeed-here-s-what-research-says/


Research shows that school desegregation — often including “busing” — helped black students in the long run.
To isolate the impact of court-ordered school integration in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, Johnson used two strategies. First, he compared students in the same school district right before and after court-ordered integration was put in place. Second, he compared pairs of siblings, when one went to integrated schools but the other didn’t.

His conclusions were similar: integration helped black students academically and into adulthood.

The effects were quite large: going to integrated schools for an additional five years caused high school graduation rates to jump by nearly 15 percentage points and reduced the likelihood of living in poverty by 11 percentage points.

In a follow-up analysis, Johnson found that these benefits extended to the next generation. The children of those who attended integrated schools had higher test scores and were more likely to attend college, too.

Johnson’s work is consistent with other research. Another national paper found that school desegregation efforts in the ‘70s reduced the dropout rate among black students, though the effect was smaller than Johnson’s estimate. A study focusing on Louisiana between 1965 and 1970 found that integration dramatically boosted black students’ chances of graduating high school.

Why did school integration make such a difference? Johnson and others show that black students ended up attending much better resourced schools with smaller class sizes.

“Court-ordered desegregation that led to larger improvements in school quality resulted in more beneficial educational, economic, and health outcomes in adulthood for blacks who grew up in those court-ordered desegregation districts,” Johnson concludes.


Just to be 100% clear - many of those who were bussed from more failing schools to integrate schools had significantly better educational outcomes.

You can note that it was stopped and failed for many reasons, including but not limited to white flight and outright racism, but it is 100% incorrect, ahistorical and short sighted to say it as a failure for everyone involved.

Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 08:49     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:Choice. If you want to bus your kid, great.


Bingo. Please look at the history of forced busing in the 70s. It was an absolute disaster everywhere it was tried. It would be especially problematic in our highly congested county. Just send kids to schools in their neighborhoods.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 08:29     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Bring magnet functions and quantum physics to my W school and I’ll stay home.

Rather than bussing anyone all over the county, they need to offer the same courses at all the HS.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 08:15     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Anonymous wrote:But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.


I am against all the busing from some areas like Kensington to places like BCC or WJ. Why can't people use their neighborhood schools?
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 08:12     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
Choice. If you want to bus your kid, great.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2024 07:56     Subject: If you are anti bussing for boundaries
But support kids being bussed to magnet programs please explain why?

I feel like the anti bussing crowd that say little Larla shouldnt have to be on a bus for that long are the same people who would happily bus their kid to a magnet program.