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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the parent of a middle schooler in private school and I'm really bothered by this. I really didn't want to send my kid to private school. I threw myself into my local public elementary school, serving on the LSRT/LSAT and the PTA leadership and donating thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of my time. I did what I could to help my in-boundary middle school, working with the PTA there, serving as a volunteer, and doing the legwork to get grants for the school from non-profits. But when my kid got to fifth grade I came to the conclusion that the in-boundary middle-school just wasn't there yet. We applied to the out-of-boundary and charter lotteries but didn't get in to any of our acceptable choices. We thought long and hard about selling our house and moving in-boundary for a better middle school, but the economics of that just didn't work. So we bit the bullet and shelled out for private middle school, confident that we would come back for high school. I was embittered by this experience, I felt that my city had failed me. And now you're saying that since my city failed me I'm going to be shut out of this program? Since my city failed me once it's failing me twice?[/quote]
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