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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about if Wakefield drew more from the North?  This was a map drawn back when this board was discussing Kenmore, but you get the idea -- slide the red area down a bit to the south and move the southern "thumb" boarder back over toward Arlington Heights -- would that balance better?

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Agree with you. I get that these issues are very complicated and forever subject to the orange-shirt phenomenon, but I really think the folks carping about what a Career Center HS would do to Wakefield are getting a bit out in front of things. The boundaries would be redrawn and it's possible to do so in a way that doesn't sink Wakefield. My house is pretty far south, so we are almost certainly Wakefield no matter what, FWIW.

And, as another FWIW, [b]I tend to agree that this is all about Arlington Heights seeing an escape hatch from Wakefield. I personally think most of the mid-tier South Arlington folks (i.e., btwn 50 and Columbia Pike) with all their high-minded talk of diversity really just want to send diversity elsewhere so their schools' FARMS rates to improve.[/b] To each their own. Doesn't mean a Career Center site couldn't work, though I still think space is a big problem.[/quote]

That is not true.  It if were, we wouldn't have sent our kids to Patrick Henry, which has historically been a Title I school.  (This school year the level of FARMS slipped to about 38%).  [/quote]

Yes, must have been so hard to send your child to a blue ribbon school. :roll: [/quote]

Yes, Patrick Henry is amazing, although I sent my kids there before it was designated a blue ribbon school.  Nevertheless, my point is that pp paints us as trying to avoid FARMS kids.  That's not true.  The school board is going to do something to Career Center site.  I'm advocating for a neighborhood school that has the amenities of all the other comprehensive high schools. [/quote]

Or you could advocate that WL deal with their own problems. [/quote]

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