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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am on the boundary line between Murch and Janney (currently zoned for Janney).  The only reason I don't want to be rezoned to Murch is because the building sucks.  once it is renovated, what's the difference? All the Murch families I know are happy there except for size, which is an issue with J, L, and M schools.  Likewise, there were families rezoned from Murch to Lafayette.  Other than the fact that Lafayette was farther, not much noise about being moved from M to L.

I do think it's a valid concern to be rezoned to a school that has worse test-scores.  I may not care about test scores personally, but it's not crazy.

[b]There was just an article in the NYT about a similar fight happening in Brooklyn.[/b]  One neighborhood has one overcrowded elementary school (so crowded that IB kids can't even get in, under the rules in NYC).  So they want to redraw the lines to zone part of the neighborhood to another school (also in the same neighborhood) but also includes a housing project and (unsurprisingly) the test scores are much worse.  Parents would rather their kids attend the overcrowded school than be zoned for a failing school.[/quote]

I did not read the NYT article but if the schools being referenced is in Park Slope (PS 351), I will tell you that the fight is really about SES and to a lesser extent race.  Frankly the same dynamics are present in DC only worse.[/quote]

except none of the schools being discussed here are "failing" by any measure.  You can talk pecking order, but even Hearst can objectively be labeled a "successful" school[/quote]

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