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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But why build another school in upper NW when there is already a very good (and getting better!) school that has additional capacity to serve some additional neighborhood kids.

You may be correct that going forward the population would justify another new elementary school in the neighborhood but why not first fully utilize the schools that are already here?

Just curious, why does PP believe it would "make people less upset" to move Murch kids to Lafayette than to Hearst?[/quote]

Their perceptions or more likely, misperceptions of Hearst.

The Murch hysteria started out as somewhat comical and is now bordering on sad since--as the cries drone on-- everyone but these Murch posters seems to understand that current Murch students who live within in the areas affected by the boundary changes will be grandfathered in, and that no student will be forced to move to "scary" Hearst and God forbid, have to walk an extra 6 blocks or drive five minutes.

As another poster pointed out, in the vast scheme of the city's boundary changes, Murch's issues are really minor and will only affect incoming families.   [/quote]

Hearst isn't "scary" it is just inconvenient for people 4 blocks from Murch to have to make a switch. My friend on Reno sent her 2 kids to Hearst, but for me where I am it is too far to think it as walking distance for kids. I let my DS walk to Murch alone but I wouldn't let him go 1 mile across Reno to Hearst. WHy are you Hearst posters so defensive and also so eager to force us to make a switch we don't want to?[/quote]

I never said I was a Hearst parent.  I just find this string this string funny compared to what the folks at Oyster Adams are dealing with.[/quote]

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