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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a ward 3 parent I am getting a bit tired of hearing I can see it from my house/ it is two blocks from my house arguments.  There is a larger picture of education needs in this city than just your family.

Providing feeder rights is a way to ensure that children that have benefited from the OOB lottery continue on a strong educational path with their elementary school peers.  We need this in this city.  It is equally compelling to me to providing sibling entrance to schools families have been zoned out of a particular school.

I am not an oyster parent/family, but I find the idea of their changed feeder to Cardozo much more disturbing because it it's academic achievement is so far below Wilson.  THAT is unacceptable even though they cannot "see" Wilson from their front yards.

This is the kind of myopic thinking that makes the rest of the city dismiss ward 3 as completely self interested twits.
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I hear your concern about giving feeder rights to OOB children to ensure a strong academic path for them, and offering sibling rights for similar reasons. I also agree it's frustrating for Oyster parents to be switched to a lower performing school. But where you lose me is your seeming lack of any comparable care for all those ward 3 (and ward 2 and ward 4) families who will will squeezed out of their in-bounds schools. Those children have just as much right to a good school, and perhaps more because their families invested in the neighborhoods where the schools are located.

The problem is that if you assume the only acceptable schools for anyone are the ones in ward3, there simply aren't enough acceptable schools for all he kids. We need more good schools, and the question we should all be asking ourselves is how best to create them ... not wasting time trying to make value judgments about which children are most deserving of spots in the few top performing schools we already have. [/quote]

My point was directed at the families that are being rezoned to good schools (Hearst and Hyde) and that it is not even happening to these current complaining families.

Focus on the difference in quality of the options, not that you can see the school.  Families that can see the school are no more entitled than families that cannot that are still in the boundary.  There are families in the Hearst boundary TODAY that are closer to Janney than the majority of the Janney boundary.  So what, parents throughout the Janney boundary are just as invested in the school. I do not think a boundary shift is necessary and I object to it, but I do not think proximity alone carries the day.  I pails be equally supportive of any group being cut out of the Janney boundary, even if they, god forbid, drove to school.

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