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No one is asking to "shove more kids" into an already over crowded school.
The question is how many kids of which neighborhood can be moved to which other school, or, maybe building a new school instead.

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A lot of logic problems.

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If you are refusing boundaries to be redrawn to alleviate crowding then you are basically saying to shove more kids into an over crowded school. 
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Do you understand what "more" means? 160% would be more than 150%. Keeping it at 150% cannot be called "shove more kids into". I am not saying it is good to keep it at 150%. But apparently you feel that is not enough to establish a valid argument, and you had to interpret other people's view of "not changing" as "putting more into"?

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If you agree that boundaries should be redrawn to alleviate overcrowding in neighboring schools, then you must know that this could include you and your's.  Otherwise, you're the worst kind of NIMBY.[/quote]

Of course it could include any neighborhood near the boundary. But people can certainly express their willingness or unwillingness to contribute, right?

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The question of "which neighborhood" boils down to this:

1.  BOE wants to spread out FARMs because studies have shown that low income kids do better in schools that have a FARMs rate of 23% or lower, while the upper income kids are not hurt by the presence of more low income kids
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Bogus study. People doing research are well aware of the problems in interpreting these kind of studies. But that's fine. Politicians do things based on studies much less reliable so this is no surprise.

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2. some people don't want their kids to go to school with more low income kids
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Getting more low income kids is fine. Getting kids from different race is fine. Getting more low performing kids?  Is there anything wrong with trying not to have that?

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3. some people don't care about #1 or #2. They just don't want their kids to be bused to the neighboring school, which could be like 2 miles away, thus adding a few minutes to the commute time, which makes one suspect of whether they really don't care about #1 or #2.[/quote]

If they like their current school, is there anything wrong with not wanting to go to another school which appears not as good? [/quote]

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