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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FR/L stats are out. Barcroft is at 67.65% this year, so before Map 6 kneecaps it by taking Alcova.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2228256494124079/ 
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Exactly. Here comes the next 80% school. Staff tried to warn us, but we had to have pretty maps.[/quote]

TBF what the Staff first tried to do was tank Drew for reasons unknown. This theory that the Staff really thought Map 2 was the best, but only issued the subsequent maps to show us how wrong we really were about Columbia Heights, is called into question when you recall the Staff's first proposal was Map 1. [/quote]

Map 1 was the path of least resistance. Map 2 was more fair to all schools, but makes some people in the community feel like they can yell, "forced busing," when all they were doing was moving bus riders from one school to to another. Map 6 is the answer to the blowback from the 1500 voters of SF. [/quote]

And so the rest of us have to settle for those 1500 winning?
FWIW, I think Staff knew map 1 wouldn't be the answer.  That map was a clear attempt to balance priorities and keep current communities happy - and more importantly, to show SB what would happen to Drew and to Barcroft next round if that's the approach they chose to take.  Map 2 proved Staff listened to community and SB feedback (to do something about the Drew FRL).  Map 5 illustrated how Staff is on the collar-end of the SB's leash, a leash controlled by people who are purely reactionary and change whims according to the political climate and degree and nature of community feedback and who suddenly no longer cared about Drew's demographics.  Nobody knows where map 6 came from.  [/quote]

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