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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, I think it's entirely fair for people to have mixed feelings and strong emotions about all of this.

I know people don't believe this, but the Henry community decided not to fight the move to Fleet due in large part to APS' promise that it would keep the Henry boundaries. Everyone knew by giving up its central location the south of the Pike sections were more likely to get cut off, and no one wanted that to happen. The assumption was that the people wanting to get into the new school would be the people N of 50 and the northern part of Alcova Heights, both assumed to be richer, whiter neighborhoods.

Henry was a Title 1 school not too long ago. It's a wonderful diverse community. People wanted to keep that. That's what the keep Henry together stuff is about.

You can hate on it all you want, but that's the truth. No one said, "Let's screw over Drew." That was never the intention.

Personally, I was dismayed to see the proposal for Drew. But I also feel badly for the Henry families that might get bumped when it moves to Fleet, because they love their school, and want to stay there. And I'm tired of people assuming all the Henry families who feel this way are racist.[/quote]

Here's the thing: numerous people have pointed out that this area S of the Pike isn't providing Henry with economic diversity any longer. There are 3 PUs that border the Drew boundary that have fewer than 10 students on fr/l, and there are only 39 students on fr/l in the other two combined. Maybe this neighborhood once provided your diversity, but it doesn't any longer. Meanwhile, these PUs would provide Drew with a contiguous and more proximate boundary that incorporated more SFHs and the families with resources who live there. The Columbia Forest PUs have many more students on fr/l than the ones from the Henry adjacent PUs, they are much further away, and it's really debatable whether the current proposal even displays a contiguous

Which PUs specifically are you referencing? In my PU, FRL is fully 65% of the 2019-20 student tally (15/23). I know it is at least one of the ones you cite, but what are the others? [/quote]

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