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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And as for the statement underlined, yes, Bowser also believes that the river should not be a boundary, hence the Miller/Eastern decision. I think this stance of the park/river not being a boundary is a respectable one, and shared by others too, including members of the DME committee. It was obvious in their final draft. Some DCUM posters like to argue that the Deal boundary looks gerrymandered, but it's obvious what's behind it: a belief that the city's best by-right middle school should be shared across the park and by a racially and economically diverse set of families. [/quote]
I have no problem with the idea that the park or river should not be a de facto boundary.  But the simple fact is that the boundaries need to change because they're currently drawn too broadly, and result in too many children attending Deal and Wilson.  The park is a convenient boundary marker, because it avoids the common problem of people complaining that when two sides of a street are zoned differently.  But if it makes you happy to avoid the park as a boundary, then we can set the boundary precisely one block east of the park, and the children of Crestwood (or whatever neighborhood) can be split between two schools.  FWIW, I think Bowser is just using this "park is not a boundary" line to justify a favor she wants to give her Ward 4 supporters.

What really offends me about your post though is the casual accusations of racism that you and some others like to level at anyone who disagrees with you.  You don't know me, or anything about me besides the fact that I disagree with you on this one issue.  And yet you think my disagreement gives you the right to make all sorts of wrong assumptions about me and my views on race and economic diversity.  But I live far further east than Crestwood, and my family has no rights to Deal or Wilson, no matter how this turns out.  So screw you.  Check your damn assumptions.[/quote]

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