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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grow tired of people turning this boundary process into some sort of bitchfest about OOB families who earned their spots legitimately through a lottery system that was and is in place.  
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It's a strange turn of phrase to use the words "earn" and "lottery" in the same sentence. It's kind of like referring to your trust fund as your "savings." Usually the verb associated with lotteries is "win."

[quote=Anonymous]In that process those families were clearly told that their children had the right at attend that school and continue in the feeder path for that school. 
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Not necessarily true. The current feeder right only dates from 2009. Kids who are in sixth grade this year would have been in the pre-k lottery in spring 2006.

[quote=Anonymous]And let's not conveniently forget that those OOB students won their spots NOT because a school or school community is particularly generous or kind but because those schools and their principals wanted to maximize their budgets and fill every open enrollment seat. Period. [/quote]

So what's your point?

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Pointing to OOB is a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the real issue--boundaries that need to be rewritten because schools like Janney simply have more real estate in it's boundaries than can be accommodated.

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The real issue is that there are more kids who have the right to attend certain schools than those schools can accommodate. Either somebody needs to lose that right, or the crowding continues and gets worse. Who loses that right? The answer is obvious to everyone involved: Not me!

Which brings us back to 21:27 upthread: what has any individual resident done that makes them more entitled than any other resident to a high quality, free public education for their children.[/quote]

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