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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree Drew voices didn’t say they wanted or didn’t want certain planning units. Most were clear that they hoped newcomers would join them in creating a strong new school. But I think it also was clear in the process that this is the Nauck school and the other planning units are an afterthought. I hope all are welcomed at the new Drew and newcomers aren’t shut out as outsiders whose opinions are simply Whitesplaining. [/quote]

You must have missed it when the Drew PTA president stood up at a boundary discussion at Kenmore where she was surrounded by furious Abingdon parents who had just been hypothetically zoned to Drew and she said (not quoting) these people don’t look like my school (to the delight of the Abingdon crowd), or the UMC Nauck residents who send their kids to Montessori calling for certain neighborhoods to be drawn into Drew (a school they don’t even or will never send their own children to), there WERE Drew voices out there during the process and guess what, they got their way. Notwithstanding all of that, there is a great welcoming committee for the new Drew school and fortunately it doesn’t include the “whitesplaining” crew from AEM (who also don’t send their kids to Drew).[/quote]
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Yeah I remember watching that as well and I think it could have been taken a few ways. Perhaps people took it out of context, perhaps they didn’t. Hard to know. Anyway, it was a misstep on her part to say anything like that and led to a lot of speculation.

There was not one person on any of the many threads about the boundary process who actually sent their kids to the neighborhood program, so it was hard to get a true read. The Montessori and other opt-out parents unable to acknowledge that they themselves were part of the whole problem was very annoying, especially when paired with the expectation that my neighborhood should just shut up. I hope the whole thing served as a lesson to everyone and I am hoping for the best “new Drew” possible. [/quote]

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