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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes -- there are some BITTER Ludlow-Taylor folks! [/quote]

That was my feeling too. Seems like the sent the three wicked witches of the West. Too bad it was acoustically difficult to understand what they were rambling on about, but one even dropped the word "gerrymandering" somehow into her tirade. Maybe somebody else can elaborate how that fit into the discussion.
 
I understand their frustration somehow. They worked hard to make LT better and they are succeeding. But their success shouldn't be based on SWS not giving proximity preference to the neighbors. I think their success should come from parents wanting to have their kids go to LT for the long-haul because it is on par with some of the best schools in the city. Their goal should be to be the #1 choice for parents in the neighborhood and have a clear strategy/timeline how to get their. Getting rid of the competition has never really helped anyone to improve.[/quote]

In this case, a neighborhood preference for a city-wide school looks like the very definition of gerrymandering.  That's actually a generous way to define it.

You can't be a neighbor of SWS without being a neighbor to LT, so why do you need a preference to one but not the other? The reason all those school buildings exist right on top of each other in the Old City areas is because of pre-[i]Brown[/i] segregation.  Alright, you want special program that is going to serve the whole city? Fine. [b]But now you want to rig the game to basically reinstate that segregation?  [/b]Not likely.[/quote]

Yes, this. Re-segregation is not be the intent of proximity preference, but it will definitely be the result. I think the DME should be sensitive to that.[/quote]
Except that the neighborhood is fairly integrated and diverse.  The ANC said her district was 50% black.  Boundaries and neighborhood preferences work against diversity in some areas, but not here.[/quote]

Oh, please. If you think the neighbors in the proximity houses are diverse, you are not paying attention. I can count the number of households occupied by non-white families on one hand, and none that I can think of that have young children. And FFS, if there is a proximity preference put into play, you can bet your bottom dollar that proximity houses will be FULL of white families. That is the way the neighborhood is moving.[/quote]

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