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[quote=Anonymous]I'm hoping that Hill parents will react in disgust to the new middle school feeder plan by putting together their own charter middle school proposal, and soon.  I've got too much else on to lead the charge, but would help if others did.

The problem the founders would obviously encounter is that the charter board isn't in the business of supporting the creation of schools catering to high SES Ward 6 residents.  When high SES/white parents turn up at Two Rivers, YY or wherever, the charter board is OK with it as long as high SES white kids don't constitute a majority.  But a school that would primarily serve them from the get go almost certainly wouldn't be granted a charter.  E.g. AppleTree LP wouldn't have been opened if that franchise and the charter board had understood who would enroll.

The parent founders would need to be cagey, making it sound like many low SES and AA kids would enroll (knowing that this won't be the case if the school were located in the heart of Cap Hill and the academics were BASIS level).

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