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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This list serve is just a place where people can make suggestions that they "frankly" feel are needed or reasonable or fair or, or, or. But the truth is, people don't typically make recommendations for change that will affect themselves negatively. So if your suggested recommendation doesn't hurt you, you can offer it up (even though you know if it impacted your family negatively you wouldn't suggest it). I see these sorts of ideas thrown out all the darn time but the reason decision-makers won't ever embrace them is because they impact real families who will scream their bloody heads off. It is a ridiculous pipe dream, PP, to think you would EVER tell an inboundary family who has just bought into a $1.2 million mortgage that they suddenly no longer have access to their by-right middle school. You are ridiculous. How about adding a dose of reality to some of these ideas, people? Packing schools beyond capacity has been the practice for decades, if you want to dial it back it going to have to be incremental or it won't happen.[/quote]

Maybe you're describing how you don't make suggestions that might hurt you, but that's not me.  I live near the edge of a boundary for an overcrowded school.  If the overcrowding gets solved by reducing the OOB population (which I suggested), I guess that benefits me.  If the overcrowding gets solved by changing boundaries (which I also suggested), there's a good chance that hurts me.  If IB students have to go through a lottery (which I suggested), there's a chance that hurts me too, depending on the lottery odds.

If you assume that no one will propose or support anything that might harm them, then we shouldn't bother having any discussion at all, because none of us will change our mind.  [/quote]

Next you'll be telling us that your suggestion of ending or curbing OOB potentially hurts your child by losing out on racial and economic diversity, buy gosh darn it, you're willing to make the sacrifice...[/quote]

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