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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are literally six public schools closer to Columbia Forest than Drew Model School: Abingdon, Barcroft, Campbell, Carlin Springs, Claremont & Randolph. (For that matter, according to Google Maps, even Henry is closer at 2.2 miles away vice 2.5 miles to Drew Model!) So tell me why Columbia Forest kids should go to Drew, while neighborhood kids 7/10th a mile away will not?[/quote]

Campbell and Claremont aren’t neighborhood schools. You could have had a decent argument there but instead you tanked your credibility by including them.[/quote]

I know they aren't neighborhood schools - I know exactly which schools are lottery schools and which aren't. But why should my kids be denied the ability to attend any of [b]seven [/b]schools closer to them geographically? Give us a choice....

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First, proximity doesn't give you priority for choice schools, nor should it. That's a lousy argument. Second, how did we get from six to seven? What's the seventh school?[/quote]

Oh good grief, quit the nit-picking!  OK - FOUR other closer schools.  Now what's your point?[/quote]

The point is just that - opening yourself up for nitpicking over exaggerations/misrepresentations so that people don’t have to respond to the substance of your argument. Like I said originally, if the post had only referred to the four neighborhood schools, then there would have been a good substantive discussion there. But by dragging in the option schools, it let me totally derail the discussion so your real point got lost. It was an unforced error, and you can’t do that if you want to effectively advocate for yourself. The staff would take one look at a comment like that, say, “this person fundamentally misunderstands the system and process,” and toss the whole comment aside unconsidered because the rest isn’t easy for them to address and you gave them an excuse not to.[/quote]

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