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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I say--let Swanson be overcrowded. Pretty much every remaining planning unit has complained in the last 3 months about the possibility of being redistricted to Kenmore or Williamsburg. So, just tell your kids to enjoy their walk to school and then squeeze them into the building. This is your doing. Please don't whine about it now.[/quote]

No. This is not my doing. I live close enough to Swanson that my planning unit was never under consideration. Hurray the people aren’t trying to flee, but there I st isn’t room for everyone. [/quote]

Then go blame your fellow Swanson families who are shouting to stay there rather than the Williamsburg families who, frankly, have been pretty silent in this whole thing. Everyone likes to demonize them but really, look where the noise is coming from. The only Williamsburg families who got vocal in this were the handful who would have been moved to Swanson under a couple of maps despite being less than a mile from Williamsburg (and those maps wouldn't have balanced the schools from a diversity standpoint, it would have just made Swanson the single-digit ED school instead of Williamsburg). Other than that, you're getting nothing. No one there is saying we don't want more PUs coming in, no one is trying to keep others out, heck, the Nottingham PTA didn't even take a position on the boundary issue, they stayed neutral. Yes, it's easy to do that when you know your kids are going to be fine either way, but they haven't been fighting the options that aren't as favorable to them. But I guess it's easier to blame them than your own neighbors, your kids' friends' families, the parents you worked with on the PTA, etc.[/quote]

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