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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I hope that some of the people swearing to go private or move actually visit the schools they are maligning, meet the principals and talk to current parents.

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To potentially be rezoned from Henry to Drew, which by all accounts is even a 4 on GS only because of the Montessori program bundled into its scores, is a pretty legitimate concern IMO. I would have never originally bought a house zoned for Drew. If that’s flame-worthy, so be it I guess. I’ll give the entirety of the situation full consideration when the time comes. [/quote]

I don't think there's any way of telling what the new Drew will be like.  All depends on where it ends up with the new school population.  The current general/non-Montessori pop at Drew is so small.[/quote]

That's the thing: if different neighborhoods are zoned to Drew, what's to say the scores don't go up? Same thing with the MS and HS boundaries and all the parents freaking out about being zoned to a "lesser" school. If more UMC neighborhoods, where the children are native speakers of English and have had extensive enrichment from very young ages and experience very few impediments to learning (such as hunger, poverty, transience, etc.), were zoned to the school, wouldn't you expect test scores to go up? Even if you think it's the school itself, the administration and many staff will be new to the school. No reason to think this school can't be a good school, too. [/quote]

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