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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if anyone thinks schools are segregated now, try removing OOB feeder rights and see what happens.   Deal could retain some diversity with existing boundaries, but Hardy would become all white

But of course most people on this forum don't care about diversity[/quote]

This is a serious question - what about diversity EOTP where there currently is very little.  Or I should say where currently very few white students are attending their neighborhood schools.

Folks do realize that most of the so called gentrifiers are not sending their kids to their neighborhood public schools, in part because of charters and in part because of the release valve of Deal and Wilson?  And if you got rid of those options you'd actually have diverse public schools EOTP?[/quote]

Hi, welcome to DCUM. I'm sorry, but although you may feel your question is serious, you have clearly not seriously considered it. [/quote]

Yep - they obviously don't have kids of their own, or they'd realize that without charters and the "release valve" of Deal and Wilson, those of us EOTP would take our high incomes (but not high enough for 2+ kids @$44k/year private) to the suburbs.[/quote]

Actually I do have kids.

And my oldest is part of a group that is likely going to give Wilson a freshman class of at least 800 in a couple of years.

And we are here because we have a bunch of privileged gentrifiers who want to live EOTP but not send their kids to schools EOTP and this happens to be the issue longtime  EOTP residents should be most upset about as the culture of their neighborhood is changing but not the schools because the wealthy newcomers have the wherewithal to find alternate options.

The problem is the numbers don't add up at Deal and Wilson - I posted this last night in a now deleted part of this thread but the nearest 4 elementary schools to Wilson alone are going to send 600 students there in just 2 years.

There are however enough middle and upper middle class families funneling through Deal/Hardy & Wilson to create a second MS & HS EOTP with a similar ethnic and SES mix.

Or we can just keep doing what we are doing and Wilson will have 3200 students in a school designed for 1800 in 4-5 years while we have renovated EOTP high schools at one-quarter capacity because courageous yuppies lack the courage to go to schools in their own neighborhood with their neighbors.

And since you presumably haven't yet sent your kids to Deal & Wilson you may not be aware of how diverse the two schools actually are[/quote]

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