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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I really wonder where a lot of these posters live, who are talking about "over-crowding" and offering purportedly well-meaning proposals of new MSs and HSs for those of us living in wards other than 3. I suspect many live in Ward 3, and thus would never be required to attend these brave new schools that they are proposing. But I can't know, because they don't disclose it. [/quote]

I live in Ward 4 and also posted 18:47 above.

My bias is that I don't want to send my kid to Deal or Wilson, but that means we need better options EOTP.

And there is urgency in figuring this out because it takes time to change or create a school that will be an attractive alternative to Ward 3.  [/quote]

Part if the answer is that our assumptions about boundaries and the city are based on the status quo, rather than what would be practical.  For example:  there is no reason for us to continue talking about "EOTP" and "WOTP" when it describes nothing that is useful or real other than intellectual biases.  Also, there is no reason for us to continue talking about "Ward 3" as if a precinct should have anything to do with a school boundary.  Instead, look at how huge the Deal and Wilson boundaries are, in comparison to all of the other schools' boundaries, and figure out how to create more practical school boundaries.

My suggestion would be to cut off Deal and Wilson at Connecticut avenue to the East, and Reservoir to the South.  All of those students to the East of Connecticut would be directed to Cardozo and Roosevelt.  Those schools would improve, maybe not immediately, as soon as those cut out of Deal and Wilson got over it.

To the South, parts of Ward 2 would still lack a neighborhood high school.  Maybe Francis-Stevens.  Just a suggestion.[/quote]

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