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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Option 3 is the only one that addressed diversity/demographics. Not perfect but with some tweaks they can make it work.[/quote]

They should definitely do option 3 with some tweaks. It's the only option that can add real diversity to Whitman.[/quote]

I'm not a Whitman parent but honestly, I don't think diversity should be the end-all be-all. Option 3 sucks for a lot of people.[/quote]

I mean, could we just get super simple and say let’s pick the option that sucks for the fewest people? Maximize happiness? [/quote]

If it were that easy, it would be a much simpler process!  But how would you do that?  Every option sucks for a significant number of kids. [/quote]

I mean you could use these 4 options (or a set of refined options in the future) and ask families to pick the one that they like best. Or you could get fancier and do rank choice. Yes every option has downsides for some people, but it doesn’t need to be hard to figure out which scenario has the most support and minimizes unhappy people.

My perception right now is that option 3 is deeply unpopular and I don’t even know why you bother having community input and engagement if you’re seriously considering the option that the fewest people prefer (that incidentally is likely to cost the most money). [/quote]

The problem is that folks from wealthier areas will respond in greater numbers while the folks meaningfully impacted in poorer ones won’t. It’s the level of parental engagement that diversity or social engineering can’t overcome. But I’m fine with this approach since the affluent in my cluster would get a disproportionate say. [/quote]

3 meaningfully impacts many people with low incomes. As just one example, in our ES, they are proposing to bus kids right by B-CC (where they are currently zoned) to send them to Whitman just to add diversity to Whitman. That doesn't benefit them, and they are being used as tokens to diversify the whitest school in the county.[/quote]

Exactly! Research shows the benefit for white students to be around non-white students in school, but the research for non-white students overwhelmingly shows how important it is to not be an only in their class.[/quote]

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