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Reply to "APS: Think the "no move" campaign is going to work?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad they are finally addressing the false claim that options schools help poorer neighborhoods. In areas with a lot of families qualifying for FRL, it's not the more needy families applying to ATS, it's the ones with more means. Thank you, LS, for saying that publicly. [/quote] Option schools do help poorer neighborhoods. They at least give people who can’t buy their way into NA a chance to attend a school that isn’t swamped with poverty because of our subsidized housing policies. And they help those kids too, since anyone can apply. The alternative is just a slightly less disadvantaged school that is still 60 percent poor. That is hardly an improvement over one that is 65 percent. The only people who don’t like options are NA parents close to route 50, who live in fear of being zoned to a high FRL school and blame option schools for making them so. [/quote]
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