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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you are willing to believe that the school is actually a tight knit community that would mourn the loss of a third of the school. Or that you believe that the wealthier units north of the pike might feel badly about leaving behind the poorer units south. And that they feel strongly enough about that they would have opposed the new school if they really thought that was what would happen.[/quote]

I do not doubt that it would be hard to lose some of your community when a school is split up. I don't think that missing piece will last longer than a year and probably not even that.

I don't think that you have to live in the same neighborhood as your classmates in order to have a tight knit community. Living in Nauck there are a lot of people that go to a lot of different schools. Guess what? We have a tight knit community at our school. We may not see friends walking around the neighborhood, but it isn't hard to call someone and have them meet you at the park. We also join sports teams and boyscouts with people from school. So between play dates and organized activities my kid hangs out with his school friends multiple days a week.

Then we get the added bonus of having friends from the neighborhood . So we always have a buddy at the park.

Granted this makes for HUGE birthday guest lists. But lack of community is something I have never felt. [/quote]

You are just proving PP’s point.  One-third of our school community  will no longer go to our school and do not live in the same neighborhood. So they will neither be classmates nor neighborhood friends. 50 years of community between north and south Columbia Pike gone. [/quote]

If the only thing holding a community together is common attendance at an elementary school, which students only attend for six years and that many in the community have no children attending at all, I question how strong a community you have even with that common elementary school.[/quote]

You know, go away. Seriously. You’ve never been to our school. Never been to our standing room only Hispanic heritage night, or to our international night where you can hardly walk down the halls it’s so crowded. You weren’t there when our beloved principal died suddenly during spring break and the kids found out that Monday. You are there now when they are told only some of them might be moving. Really, you are a nasty person.[/quote]

DP here.  Henry is a great school.  That community is fantastic.  Other schools also have very crowded and fun international nights  and very engaged and active hispanic parent groups.  What happened to the Henry principal was tragic and I'm sure it was traumatic for all involved.  I do not live in a Henry Zone or in any of the areas that could be moved to Drew.  I would be very sad if my elementary school student had to change schools in the middle of his time there.  But boundaries are long term.  In 5 years the schools will be filled with different students and families.  Someone is going to have to sacrifice and change.  I am not the PP who mentioned negative communications, but I did see a message months ago urging parents to contact both boards  saying that  that they did not want to be moved from Henry which has strong ratings to adjacent schools that had inferior ratings and that they had paid a premium to live in the Henry zone. I do not know how far or how widely that message was spread--but it was out there.

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Look, I get it.  Everyone loves their own school community and doesn’t want change.  But I can’t stand by and listen to these vile, nasty, untrue comments about my community.  Like I said, I’m not on every possible listserv but I’ve never seen that messaging from the Henry community.  I’m not saying it didn’t happen on another listserve, but it certainly wasn’t on any school or PTA email.  But also like I said, I’ve seen the same message on Fairlington’s Facebook page.  I’m just saying that that type of message doesn’t represent our community as a whole, just like I’m sure Abington parents will say negative comments never went out on their listserve and that the comments  on Fairlington’s Facebook page does not represent them as a whole.  Somehow Henry has been made the bad guy in this and it is unfair and not deserved.  Enough. [/quote]

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