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[quote=Anonymous]If the poster is indeed a Murch to Hearst family she has every right to be angry.  People on this chain keep saying the mile commute to the new school is close enough so too bad.  Well that might be true if that were the ONLY relevant fact.  But its not.  As the poster said, they there are two closer elementary schools to their home, much closer.  The current assignment is to a school only a couple of blocks away.  It might make perfect sense to be assigned to a school a mile away if the closer schools didn't exist but they do and you can't ignore that as a viable reason to make the current proposal absured.  You don't put people in cars, you don't force people out of their neighborhoods.  You don't assign households to the third farthest school from their home.  They live in a neighborhood that has a great school.  There is a nearby neighbrohood that has another great school.  But they are being assigned to a school several neighborhoods away that has a school that is lower performing.  You especially don't do these things when the third school is lower performing then the other two.  And if you do, the poeple that are effect should rightfully scream bloody murder.  And everyone should see how unfair and wrong it is and support those people.  Its perfectly plainly wrong.  Those who don't support the objection are really angry about something else.  They are angry that their own neighborhood school isn't as good as Hearst.  Fair enough.  But if we are going to support the concept of neighborhood schools it doesn't make any sense not to insist that the actual neighbors of a school be assigned to that school.[/quote]

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