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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]that map will NEVER happen. Yorktown folks will fight to keep their kids away from a kemore HS and they will win. As it is, it is hard enough to keep north of 50 kids in Kemore as a middle school.

One of reasons for not putting the HS at kemore was the lack of space for facilties and the fact that it would be a high FARMs school. So, now this wealthier area is willing to do it without the facilities to avoid a bus ride to WF or WL and avoid WF all together.

To me, if the county would allow busing to lower the FARMs rates at WF, then we could look simply at facilities and not at demographics. [/quote]

Do it differently, then. YHS can have what it has. The real issue is to make sure the western Pike AH high rises and the eastern pike close in area (Johnson Hill / Hoffman-Boston area) that is gentrifying slowly aren't in the same school. Give the eastern pike time to continue to even out, and the Wakefield demographics will continue to slowly improve. West pike can continue to go to WL or can go to Career Center HS. I get that moving Arl Heights will take out some of the already-gentrified neighborhoods, and I don't know the numbers, but the concentrated high-FARMS housing is where my concern mainly lies.[/quote]

What are you talking about? You are basically saying - let's make it worse by taking the best part of south arl out of Wakefield.[/quote]

I'm saying what I think is the primary issue to be worried about and to try to avoid. Sure, would be nice to keep Arl Heights where it is. It would also be nice to have a pony. If the Career Ctr HS is what the board picks, it's not realistic to keep Arl Heights at Wakefield. From my position zoned for Wakefield, I think I could live with that so long as they keep the west pike area out of Wakefield too. There is no solution that's going to make everyone happy. The county is out of ponies. [/quote]

And where are you zoned?[/quote]

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