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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I'm still trying to understand why a "riot" should be a logical and natural result of any moves to limit the size of the concentric ring around Deal that defines "inboundary."

It's equally riotous that a tween living 2 blocks away from Deal would be forced into a trailer or makeshift overcrowded classroom so as to let in 75% of the city as a matter of right.    Here, Bob, you and Mary can share a chair in this windowless classroom because we we don't want to look racist.
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You are mixing apples and oranges here. [b]The only way that students from 75% of the city get into Deal is due to being OOB in a feeder school. Changing the zone boundary for Deal won't change that reality at all[/b]. So, that's one issue.

The second issue is the potential modification of Deal's boundaries. The Deal boundaries currently include areas with high hispanic and African-American populations. Regardless of the OOB situation, some diversity will remain as long as those areas remain inbounds.

If the boundaries were redrawn to eliminate the high-minority areas, while simultaneously ending the flow of OOB students, it would rightly be seen as an overt effort to remove minority students from Deal. 
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And I would just add, as it stands now some of the feeder schools can't accept many OOB students because of the increase of in-bounds families.  [/quote]

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