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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Better idea: STOP increasing density without an actual plan for schools. Affordable housing brings more students than any other type of housing unit. They need to figure out how to create space for these kids BEFORE building.[/quote]

I agree with you but it also seems like people fight tooth and nail about affordable housing and the bottom line is that most people don’t want these folks in their schools or in their neighborhoods.  Do you think people would open the doors of their schools to these students if there were enough space?  Or do you think something else is going on?[/quote]

It’s probably both. But I will say, there are reasonable people who bristle at some of these new affordable housing complexes, and it has nothing to do with skin color or income level. It’s behavior.

I recently went to a grocery store that has a new affordable complex nearby. What once was a quiet store now reeks of marijuana in the parking lot. A gentleman in the aisle with me took a Gatorade from the shelf, cracked it open and chugged a third of it, then put it back on the shelf. That’s not okay.

I’m sure it’s a few bad apples in a complex of otherwise great people, but I’ll be honest — I’m shopping somewhere else from now on.

So again, we go back to where this thread started. Is it the way ATS teaches that makes it great? Yes. Is it family culture — one that prioritizes education? Also yes.

Parents aren’t wrong for wanting to send their children to school with other kids whose families value education. And I’m not saying low incomes families don’t, but… there’s a stark contrast in levels of chronic absenteeism between different APS schools. Something’s up.[/quote]

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