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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The word is that Eaton will be be dropped from the Deal cluster[/b].  The political thinking is that it's substantial OOB population won't protest too much if it gets assigned to Hardy.  The Cleveland Park parents will squawk (and some are world class activists) but there are fewer of them than the many Lafayette parents who would be energized as mad hornets if their school were dropped from the Deal cluster.[/quote]

Whose word is that?

The Eaton community will not allow our children's education to be at the mercy of "political thinking". Our children are far more valuable than that. [/quote]
There's going to be a chopping block. Whose kids should be on it? Somebody's will.[/quote]

This really is what it boils down to.  The naive PP from Eaton may not like it, but political considerations will play into the decision a great deal.  I think it will be less political dynamite to shift Eaton to Hardy (still a WotP school, and actually closer to Eaton than is Deal), than to cut off access to Deal for the the few EotP neighborhoods than have it now (Mt. Pleasant, Crestwood).  I'm not saying that is the right answer, but it seems to be the less politically problematic one.

And, naive PP - your "children are far more valuable than that" - but other children aren't?  Your children are valuable, so they are entitled to go to Deal, but other kids aren't quite as valuable, so they are the ones that should be shifted out?  If you want to influence this process at all, you'd better come up with a better approach - that one is just going to piss everyone off.  [/quote]

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