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[quote=Anonymous]What would you do?

This new proposal takes my child from one of the BEST performing schools in my Ward to the WORST performing. The proposed school is twice the distance from my home and is the third farthest elementary from my home.

My child loses proximity preference under the new proposal because we don't have to travel further than one mile (Proposal 12 in the document released this week), but we will have to drive opposed to walk (there is no public transit option), and will more than double our commute in the car.

This new school will be forced to take mostly at-risk OOB kids (foster care, homeless, welfare). It is heavily OOB already (over 80%) and will now have to grapple with the most challenging kids the city offers. The families who attend the school do not live in my neighborhood so I will lose all of the neighborhood elements of close-in play dates and walking my child to school.

Livid doesn't begin to describe how angry and disgruntled I am with this process led by the DME. 
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