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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched part of the boundaries and feeders roundtable and it definitely seemed like Ward 6 was all about "give me a neighborhood school, allow us Hill families to walk to our schools."  The implication being, allow us a preference to our schools that allows Hill families to fill these schools, because witnesses would not say that they don't have a chance to get into their school if the people beating them out for seats were their neighbors - they would be asking for expansion, etc.

On the other hand, Council Member Alexander and the Ward 7 education witnesses all seemed very spooked that a process had been foisted on them that would pull the rug out from under them, that is, no longer allow access to their most reasonably accessible good schools, those on Capitol Hill, and put them in schools they would not trust, with only a small corps of academically successful students and no enticements to stay.

Between the two sides, I have to admit I feel more sympathetic to the Ward 7 families.[/quote]

I assume that you also think a band-aid is the best treatment for a bullet wound.[/quote]

You know it is relative, but I am willing to tell education-focused families east of the Park in western Ward 4 and Ward 1 to suck it up and turn around their local schools, because it may not be the same as getting that Janney/Deal/Wilson experience, but it will help the City tremendously and many of the schools are OK.

On the other hand, I just can't think doing the same is OK for Ward 7.  Those who are there in many ways get a terribly bad eduational experience.  Say what you want about how I would set the line on that one, but I really am not in the mood to tell parents they have to go send their kids to a place where less than 20% of the kids can meet proficiency tests.[/quote]

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