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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at TJ now.  The way the boundaries are now, some of her friends will go to WL and some will go to Wakefield with her.  Are other middle schools split like that?  I took those planning units that go to TJ -&gt; WL and put them in Wakefield.  Don't we all want our kids to go to high school with their friends?[/quote]

Apparently we all want neighborhood schools, just so long as that school isn't Wakefield. [/quote]

We all want to build community with our neighbors. So schools close to home and classmates sticking together are both good things. 
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Schools without entrenched poverty are a better thing. [/quote]

No one wants to bus their kid to the other side of the county. [/quote]

Again, I don't see what the big deal is.  If you take the bus already, what is another 10 minutes?  School starts early.  There is hardly any traffic at that time. I leave for work at 7:15 and its pretty easy going to the other side of the county. 
And it's not like if you live in a walking zone, you're kids will be shipped across town.  Aren't those planning units protected? 
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Mostly those units are protected, but some units that are in play have a portion that is in the walk zone. I have heard that kids who don't technically live in the walk zone do walk or bike anyway to W-L and could not do so safely if they were moved to one of the other schools, and that is upsetting to some. I get it, everyone wants their ideal situation and is used to getting it. And hopefully we can come up with a solution that avoids making walkers get on buses for the most part. But in a capacity crisis situation, when doing the easiest thing is also the one thing that will make our community look terrible, I suggest we not do the thing that will bring in the NAACP and the DOJ. [/quote]

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