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And the kids in many of those 10 story apartments would all crowd into Janney.  But so what, as long as GDS, the Aces and their developer cronies get to pocket the profits...[/quote]

Umm. Yeah. Kids living on apartments get to go to "your" neighborhood public school.

Is that what this is all about, now that the neighborhood has taken back Janney and mostly rid itself of out of bound kids, let's make sure they don't get back in by buying or renting an apartment three blocks from the school?  I've been reading this ridiculous NIMBY chain for months now and finally realized what it's about. Should have figured, given the neighborhood's sorry history on race. [/quote]

Let's leave the NIMBY and race-baiting invective out of it, as well as the moralizing.  (Yes, we've all heard so much about GDS's unique and storied history on integration, Eric Holder on the board, etc., etc.).  Instead, let's get practical.  Upper NW public schools are bursting at the seams today.  They're overcrowded even just with families who live in their school zones.  With more and more large projects in the area, whether GDS PUD Commons, the project just announced at Fannie's site, or visions of more 10-story multifamily buildings along Wisconsin (some of which will have parents with school aged kids), just where exactly is the school capacity to educate all of these new students?  [/quote]

It's the history of our neighborhood. And it's not very far in the past.  Helps explain the present. [/quote]

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