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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question I keep asking myself is WHY people who live east of the park would rather attend a new school with no track record in upper northwest than an existing (and revitalized) school that is east of the park and closer to their homes. That just makes no sense to me. Why build a new building far away from where you live, when there's already a renovated building a few blocks from home? Are they so certain that any school in the neighborhood where they live is doomed to fail?[/quote]
Commuting sucks. No one prefers that. But they would rather commute than send their kids to bad schools.

Give people a good option close to home and they'll take it.[/quote]
But why would you assume a new school in NW will be a good school, and a revitalized school EotP will be a bad school?  Whatever might make the new NW school good can surely be replicated at an EotP school, can't it?[/quote]

I would not assume that, but others here do. It's a shorthand version of the old "White is right" line of thinking.

I'm all in favor of building strong, sustainable schools close to where kids live, and in this city that means 80% EOTP.[/quote]

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