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The reason the Hill schools are full of OOB kids is b/c there are spaces for them that aren't filled by IB kids. [b]If you don't want OOB kids there, fill those spaces with your kids. [/b]

(FWIW, I am an OOB parent at a Hill school -- though I do live on the Hill, just not IB for the specific school my kid attends.)[/quote]

If only it were that simple, just fill those spaces with your kids. The problem with this recommendation is that it's made to individuals when Hill gentrifiers have a herd mentality. What happened at Brent and Maury in the early 2000s is that yuppies with toddlers who were getting to know one another at local playgrounds (at Turtle and Lincoln Parks) decided to band together to change school cultures to the point that they would be comfortable sending their own children to their IB schools.  They have succeeded in spades to the point that, to some extent, their schools have become victims of their own success.   Brent's FARMS percentage is now in the teens, and dropping with every passing year.  You're not getting that sort of group cohension or momentum with the Stanton Park crowd.  If you were, you wouldn't simply see a petition to keep SWS a neighborhood school, you would have seen one to oust Principal Cobbs at Ludlow-Taylor.  Maybe that petition is coming.  I'm looking forward to seeing L-T fixed up at any rate - maybe new windows will inspire new thinking.  A shiny renovation hasn't hurt JO Wilson - you hear about a neighborhood-supported PTA coming together there.

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