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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"fixing overcrowding" by jamming two new schools within a block of each other with no viable public transportation both will create a traffic nightmare in an area that is already bad and also create a white enclave set of schools that fails the equity test in a huge way.

I can see why people who chose to live on the island known as Palisades would prefer that solution.

Why not call it what it is?[/quote]

Also very insincere. One of the new local public schools replaces an existing private school of similar size to which students were almost exclusively driven from all over the region. The other school is a neighborhood elementary school to which students would mostly walk or bike (as in Glover Park). Anyone who claims that these schools would create a "traffic nightmare" (or worsen the situation relative to what it was pre-pandemic) either lacks basic reasoning skills or has ulterior motives.

Public transportation is also not static. New bus lines can and will be created to serve MacArthur HS.[/quote]
Yeah but the new public schools kids may be browner than the neighborhood is used to. People have already waxed poetic about kids getting into to trouble in the neighborhood after school lets out. I don't recall that concern ever having been voiced when it was GDS kids in the 'hood. [/quote]

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