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[quote=Anonymous]Demand....isn't an issue?  So why bother with neighborhood schools in Ward 6, where IB demand is weak after ES?  Why not scrap local by-right schools if OOB demand is all that matters?  Why is it OK that only a tiny fraction of UMC parents in a catchment area sends their teens year after year, at a time when SES families with school-age children are the majority in the Eastern feeder population?

What's the point of repeatedly declaring "Well, all that has to happen is that many high SES families elect to send their children to these schools to improve them" when that hasn't happened, and, pretty clearly, never will without monumental change.  You can judge high-income parents who vote with their feet to charters, privates and the burbs repeatedly, slam them for their uncharitable views on classicism and racism/desegregating schools ad nauseum without changing their behavior one ioda. Hint: Einstein's definition of madness, doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.

Thriving, popular, diverse urban neighborhood middle and high schools are desirable.  Myopically dismiss them as unimportant to the detriment of the city in question, this one.

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