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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just have to say how I love that this post started out about how to hold the Staff and School Board accountable and devolved into a post blaming NA parents for the woes of the SA boundary process. A process NA had zero to do with.

NA bashing is getting so old, and clearly isn't getting SA anywhere.[/quote]

I wouldn't say NA had NOTHING to do with it.  It's the attitudes and perceptions that drove people to NA to avoid the "problem" and thereby exacerbated the situation.  And NA pushback against APAH-like projects in THEIR neighborhoods, exacerbating the saturation of low-income housing in SA neighborhoods.[/quote]

Kind of reaching here but I admire the effort to still blame NA![/quote]

OK, then.  What has NA done to HELP? [/quote]

There were several posts early on in this process from NA people asking how they could help SA here. Some responses were constructive, but an awful lot were basically telling them to sit down and shut up. Nonetheless, if you look at the public comments posted by APS, you'll see quite a few comments from people in NA advocating for SA communities with no reference to their own schools or interests. NA schools are generally net contributors to the CCPTA, which allows the CCPTA to give grants to lower-income SA schools that need them. They voted for Vihstadt, who would have been much better for schools than deFerranti.

But really it's pretty rich to trash them left and right here and then whine about why they're not doing anything for you. Or when they do try to advocate for you, accuse them of using you as a prop for their own self-interest (see, for instance, the location review, where NA people argued that option programs should be placed in more accessible location so as to not create greater hurdles for low-income families, and then were accused to just wanting to keep low-income kids out of their neighborhoods).[/quote]

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