Anonymous wrote:I remember when I started to look at colleges and my parents told me that I had to go to a school with at cv last 10% Jewish population. I didn’t really understand it until I went to college (one with a large Jewish population) and was the first Jew that many people had met. The questions I was asked, the assumptions made, and the comments I heard made me sure of one thing- when I graduated I would always love in an area like I grew up. One where I was comfortable with my religion. So, yes, I picked my home based on the location of lots of synagogues but also so my children could grow up surrounded by people that share their same beliefs. This is what redistricting is about for me. I want my white children who are minorities to be in a school with people like them. And I don’t want a far ride away from that.

White Catholics are minorities too.

Lots of minority groups in MoCo- white Jews, white Christians, Muslims. Hispanic and AA are the “largest group of minorities.” And have been for the last 10 years and growing.

MoCo of the 1990s is long gone.

I grew up in a township district that had an optional, elective bussing program: inner city kids could go to suburban schools with capacity, can suburban kids could go to specialty schools downtown, IF they elected. A Small taxpayer funded bus provided curbside pickups and drop offs, for the 40+ minute drive.

Sadly, I never saw the inner city kids’ parents at anything, even their own kids’ basketball, football games, track meets, or band concerts. Most had to catch the 2:50pm bus back or they were stuck with 90 minutes of city busses.

No community feeling there.

It was a school within a school as everyone hung out “with their own people.” Large Chinese and Vietnamese population too.

I also heard the N word on a daily basis, from the blacks. This was in the 1990a. Maybe no one says that word any longer.

I was at a Herbert Hoover thing last year and very very few white people. If anything they should bus some in

I remember when I started to look at colleges and my parents told me that I had to go to a school with at cv last 10% Jewish population. I didn’t really understand it until I went to college (one with a large Jewish population) and was the first Jew that many people had met. The questions I was asked, the assumptions made, and the comments I heard made me sure of one thing- when I graduated I would always love in an area like I grew up. One where I was comfortable with my religion. So, yes, I picked my home based on the location of lots of synagogues but also so my children could grow up surrounded by people that share their same beliefs. This is what redistricting is about for me. I want my white children who are minorities to be in a school with people like them. And I don’t want a far ride away from that.

The report (p. 88) recommends the County Council adopt a resolution that apparently should be similar to Howard County’s plan for desegregation. They suggest the boundary analysis would be useful for this.

Anonymous wrote:Not forced segregation.

Hispanics want to live by Casa de MD and their community housing and markets.

Blacks want to live by their churches and their communities. Same for Christian Asians. The Jews want to live by their temples.

That’s how the world works. People live by and in their communities. That doesn’t mean a 500 sw mile county in a dense and traffic ladened area totes batshit crazy with bussing and forced segregation.

Fairfax, chapter 220, NY, Others all offer optional school rankings to go if there is capacity. But you always firstly have the option of your designated community school pyramid.

This.

Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-segregation-exacerbates-student-achievement-disparities-report-says/

3/4 of black, Hispanic/Latino, and ESOL students are in high-poverty elementary schools
2/3 of white, Asian, and multiracial/ethnic students are in low-poverty elementary schools

First paragraph of the article is highly misleading: MCPS has far more than a “handful” of high-poverty schools. Increasingly, they are the norm.

And most white and Asian families don’t want their kids bussed away from their neighborhoods and sprinkled in schools in Wheaton, Gaithersburg and Germantown just to make some minority politician looking for an excuse for poor academic achievement happy.

Anonymous wrote:MC should buy houses in Bethesda, CC, Rockville, or Potomac and then let low income families live there free. However, there must be one condition: that is the students have to do well academically. If not, next family gets to move in. Or MC buys houses for each poor family.

Can we remove from those neighborhoods any MC/UMC families with kids not doing well academically, parents with past arrests or now adult children with a stint in rehab, or those whose politics we dislike?

Sounds like a housing issue that as urbanization occurred there were not rental apartments, condos, tons of town homes, etc.

With the price of a quarter acre in MoCo at 400k- 600k that’s what happened. That’s before housing costs.

Not forced segregation.

Hispanics want to live by Casa de MD and their community housing and markets.

Blacks want to live by their churches and their communities. Same for Christian Asians. The Jews want to live by their temples.

That’s how the world works. People live by and in their communities. That doesn’t mean a 500 sw mile county in a dense and traffic ladened area totes batshit crazy with bussing and forced segregation.

Fairfax, chapter 220, NY, Others all offer optional school rankings to go if there is capacity. But you always firstly have the option of your designated community school pyramid.

Anonymous wrote:MC should buy houses in Bethesda, CC, Rockville, or Potomac and then let low income families live there free. However, there must be one condition: that is the students have to do well academically. If not, next family gets to move in. Or MC buys houses for each poor family.

The condition should be they have to behave appropriately. Teachers will bend over backwards for low-level learners if they have been raised to be respectful.

People expect equality, not equality of opportunity. There will always be an achievement gap. Everyone has access to a free education from K-12 (and free preschool for some groups). If your kids don’t take advantage of this, don’t blame the school system. It’s there for the taking.

So, what? Shouldn't matter what school anyone attends, they should all be able to learn and access the curriculum, no matter where they are in the county.

MC should buy houses in Bethesda, CC, Rockville, or Potomac and then let low income families live there free. However, there must be one condition: that is the students have to do well academically. If not, next family gets to move in. Or MC buys houses for each poor family.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-segregation-exacerbates-student-achievement-disparities-report-says/

3/4 of black, Hispanic/Latino, and ESOL students are in high-poverty elementary schools
2/3 of white, Asian, and multiracial/ethnic students are in low-poverty elementary schools