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Anonymous wrote:This is nonsense. Howard County public schools are among the best in the nation. There is no “segregation”. Neighborhoods that feed into different high schools are determined by the school board after analyzing multiple factors. Housing price is not a factor. Certainly some schools have more diversity - and much of that is because of some these schools have higher number of apartments and lower priced housing in their areas so they provide entry level living for people moving into the county or lower income families. Article is written to inflame and indoctrinate people into it’s author’s odd belief system; isn’t factual or from any official source.

What makes them the best PP? Cmon. They are the best because they have high test scores. They have high test scores because the population is full of wealthy, educated parents and not full of uneducated, poor people. This isn't rocket science.

On papers only

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Anonymous wrote:This is nonsense. Howard County public schools are among the best in the nation. There is no “segregation”. Neighborhoods that feed into different high schools are determined by the school board after analyzing multiple factors. Housing price is not a factor. Certainly some schools have more diversity - and much of that is because of some these schools have higher number of apartments and lower priced housing in their areas so they provide entry level living for people moving into the county or lower income families. Article is written to inflame and indoctrinate people into it’s author’s odd belief system; isn’t factual or from any official source.

What makes them the best PP? Cmon. They are the best because they have high test scores. They have high test scores because the population is full of wealthy, educated parents and not full of uneducated, poor people. This isn't rocket science.

Anonymous wrote:OP, MCPS has been and continues to try really hard create diverse schools. MoCo also requires builders to add moderately priced units to any new development. So, I don't know why you would think MoCo was worse in terms of segregation. Sure, there are parts that are segregated, but for the most part, I find MoCo pretty diverse. I'm originally from the Bay Area.

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Anonymous wrote:This blogger uses the variance in the FARMS rate to say that Howard County schools are the most segregated in Maryland. He doesn't show his numbers though -- I would have bet on MCPS.

https://howardcounty640805081.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/how-did-howard-county-schools-become-the-most-segregated-county-in-maryland/?fbclid=IwAR31j6y_KYs8FYtp8HKpCCEpUIiatyIQRHkV-U5us8YRgQHHE4XAwncHH-s

UMM...many of the newcomers to Howard left MoCo for Howard. So this makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:This is nonsense. Howard County public schools are among the best in the nation. There is no “segregation”. Neighborhoods that feed into different high schools are determined by the school board after analyzing multiple factors. Housing price is not a factor. Certainly some schools have more diversity - and much of that is because of some these schools have higher number of apartments and lower priced housing in their areas so they provide entry level living for people moving into the county or lower income families. Article is written to inflame and indoctrinate people into it’s author’s odd belief system; isn’t factual or from any official source.

What makes them the best PP? Cmon. They are the best because they have high test scores. They have high test scores because the population is full of wealthy, educated parents and not full of uneducated, poor people. This isn't rocket science.

sounds good to me.

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Anonymous wrote:This is nonsense. Howard County public schools are among the best in the nation. There is no “segregation”. Neighborhoods that feed into different high schools are determined by the school board after analyzing multiple factors. Housing price is not a factor. Certainly some schools have more diversity - and much of that is because of some these schools have higher number of apartments and lower priced housing in their areas so they provide entry level living for people moving into the county or lower income families. Article is written to inflame and indoctrinate people into it’s author’s odd belief system; isn’t factual or from any official source.

What makes them the best PP? Cmon. They are the best because they have high test scores. They have high test scores because the population is full of wealthy, educated parents and not full of uneducated, poor people. This isn't rocket science.

Anonymous wrote:This blogger uses the variance in the FARMS rate to say that Howard County schools are the most segregated in Maryland. He doesn't show his numbers though -- I would have bet on MCPS.

https://howardcounty640805081.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/how-did-howard-county-schools-become-the-most-segregated-county-in-maryland/?fbclid=IwAR31j6y_KYs8FYtp8HKpCCEpUIiatyIQRHkV-U5us8YRgQHHE4XAwncHH-s

Anonymous wrote:So is Howard more Republican than Montgomery?

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This is nonsense. Howard County public schools are among the best in the nation. There is no “segregation”. Neighborhoods that feed into different high schools are determined by the school board after analyzing multiple factors. Housing price is not a factor. Certainly some schools have more diversity - and much of that is because of some these schools have higher number of apartments and lower priced housing in their areas so they provide entry level living for people moving into the county or lower income families. Article is written to inflame and indoctrinate people into it’s author’s odd belief system; isn’t factual or from any official source.

What makes them the best PP? Cmon. They are the best because they have high test scores. They have high test scores because the population is full of wealthy, educated parents and not full of uneducated, poor people. This isn't rocket science.

No, they didn't have Curriculum 2.0 which puts MCPS kids who are in the academic average to bottom at a severe disadvantage. You can't expect kids to know things if your curriculum is a mess as the John Hopkins University audit reported.

Anonymous wrote:So is Howard more Republican than Montgomery?

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This is nonsense. Howard County public schools are among the best in the nation. There is no “segregation”. Neighborhoods that feed into different high schools are determined by the school board after analyzing multiple factors. Housing price is not a factor. Certainly some schools have more diversity - and much of that is because of some these schools have higher number of apartments and lower priced housing in their areas so they provide entry level living for people moving into the county or lower income families. Article is written to inflame and indoctrinate people into it’s author’s odd belief system; isn’t factual or from any official source.

What makes them the best PP? Cmon. They are the best because they have high test scores. They have high test scores because the population is full of wealthy, educated parents and not full of uneducated, poor people. This isn't rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:TBH, redistricting schools based on real estate price to keep poor people together, middle class together, and wealthy together almost sounds illegal. If some unbuilt area is zoned for a school and some cheap housing is built there then they rezone people out based on being poor, you can’t come to this school, we don’t want your kind, I think they’ll be in for lawsuits.

How about the opposite? Redistricting schools to increase diversity, to make schools less "segregated"?

So an area is districted for a school. That area is “too poor” to attend the school so it’s redistricted to a different school with more poor people. Now we take that same area and redistricting it back to the original school and you are asking if that sounds illegal? Not really, no. Or are you trying to change the subject and talk about MoCo in a thread about HoCo?

Anonymous wrote:This is nonsense. Howard County public schools are among the best in the nation. There is no “segregation”. Neighborhoods that feed into different high schools are determined by the school board after analyzing multiple factors. Housing price is not a factor. Certainly some schools have more diversity - and much of that is because of some these schools have higher number of apartments and lower priced housing in their areas so they provide entry level living for people moving into the county or lower income families. Article is written to inflame and indoctrinate people into it’s author’s odd belief system; isn’t factual or from any official source.