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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. So read all of the pages here and this is the thing -it seems like no one wants to send their kids to Drew. I don't think that calling neighbourhoods who don't want to send their kids there "racist" is particularly constructive when it's clear that nobody wants to do that. But Drew has space and somebody is going to get forced there, especially after all this Montessori business.

Whoever does get sent there is going to wear matching t-shirts and go to complain and camp outside of the school board office hours because that is the only thing that's been proven to work. We really ought to blame Arlington Forest for setting the precident in the first place in terms of not wanting to get redistricted by to "lesser" schools.

But the bigger problem is that the county has no interest in balancing demographics. They've made this clear time and time again. It's not like they're actually trying to make things right across 50.  They're just looking for a couple of neighbourhoods to sacrifice here or there to make the numbers crunch correctly. If there is no overall plan to make education better for everyone how would anyone feel if they're the one street that gets hurt by the system? Why should anyone feel comfortable sending their kids to a high poverty school just because of the optics of it looking slightly better? what difference does it make? Why should we be at each other's throats over which neighbourhood should go somewhere so that they're 65% poverty instead of 75% poverty when Elementary schools less than 5 miles away are 3% poverty?[/quote]

Just so we have our facts straight and since others have referenced Tuckahoe being 3%, Drew is 6.3 miles from Tuckahoe and would currently take 22 minutes by car. At 7:25 on a Friday night. [/quote]

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