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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]

This is all well and good, but still does not explain how redistricting Crestwood helps solve the problem of overcrowding. 
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Did you actually read your statement? Seriously. It's unclear how reducing a few students currently feeding into Deal[b] [i]helps solve[/i][/b] the problem? It's not unclear at all. Literally. You're being blinded by your desire to maintain all of your home's value. That's understandable, but that's still all that's going on here.[/quote]

I really feel that if people are going to argue about my motivations they should disclose their own neighborhood and current schools so that I can offer similar analysis of their own motivations. But, even better, people should avoid such judgements altogether and just discuss facts. I've now been concerned about my real estate values, of being a NIMBY, and not being welcome to kids from the rest of the city. Frankly, I'm getting a bit tired of such accusations from anonymous people.

Here is a fact: If you remove a handful of students from a school with a significant overcrowding problem, you still have an overcrowding problem. Maybe you can find enough marginal solutions to resolve the issue. But, I think the political reality makes that unlikely. The marginal solutions offer little to solve the problem individually, but each come at a high political cost. I think it it unlikely that policymakers will opt for multiples changes in which the political cost-benefit is extremely negative. If restricting Crestwood solved the problem, it might be worth the political cost. But, since that's not the case, it seems very unlikely to me. 
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