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[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]

When I sent my DD there, it was a 6 on Great Schools.  A 6! Can you believe it?  It's come a long way, but some of us have been there for the long haul.  I guess some of us really do believe in the benefits of a diverse environment.  
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