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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As with many DCUM threads there are two different and unrelated things being argued (plus the regular cabal of fools who post nonsense). One group argues that Deal and Wilson are over-enrolled, that reducing the number of students in attendance would alleviate the problems associated with that overcrowding, and that overcrowding could be addressed by ending OOB feeder rights. A different group argues that ending OOB feeder rights disproportionately hurts economically disadvantaged students, many of whom come from poorer neighborhoods. You can't possibly come to agreement because they aren't mutually exclusive. The issue is one of public policy, and that's the real disagreement and discussion that needs to be had. Scarcity of resources means we can't provide everything to everyone, so as a society we need to figure out what we value more (which I would point out doesn't mean we don't value everything - that's the red herring that gets used on DCUM a whole lot).

But I will call BS on the people who seem afraid to have the public policy argument and fall back on silly and illogical statements. [/quote]

The SJW need to get their talking points straight

Most of them keep crowing about neighborhood schools
WOTP is getting to the point where it could be almost all neighborhood schools
But that is somehow wrong because there aren't enough at-risk/black/brown kids

So SJW, what social engineering do you want exactly again[/quote]

This is peak Dunning-Kruger.

Translation "I think it makes me seem smart to call people whom I disagree with social justice warriors because that lets me discount all the things they say that I don't understand.  I think it sounds even smarter to use an acronym that my nutty right wing friends and I can use when we forward fake news alt-right quackery to each other on Facebook.  I don't understand the terms "public policy", "alleviate" and "scarcity of resources"  and don't get what PP means, so I'll make myself feel clever by inventing a nonsense strawman dichotomy that I think really puts those people who use big words on the spot."

Of course, folks with functioning brains understand that people of good will can disagree and that intelligent people can value competing priorities, but all of that requires waaay more brainpower than PP possesses.  [/quote]

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