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[quote=Anonymous]I think there are plenty of upper middle class families who will send their kids to MacFarland if that is established as the pattern for Bancroft. I think it's true that some will avoid it, but there are already some upper middle class kids at MacFarland now, and plenty of other parents will simply do what's in front of them knowing that the system has set this up for them. Requiring that feeder pattern rather than making it optional will create a significant cohort of MacFarland families from what is becoming an extremely mixed neighborhood.

The catchment of MacFarland certainly includes large and small apartment buildings of low-income Spanish-only families. However, it contains a very large number of single family homes that cost $850K plus. I believe that while few families want to send their kid to be the "only white kid" or "only Asian" or only anything, norming MacFarland as the neighborhood middle school with the only way out onerous will make those who don't want it move, and be replaced, or decide whether they'll take risky steps like lotterying every year. And for many, the cohort that the path-of-least-resistance will create will be enough to send their kid too.

It's not magic, it's public policy.[/quote]

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