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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am just waiting to hear the proposal in April, then I will take action starting from from my school to beyond - Mann elementary - for a joint t
Lawsuit if they abolish IB feeding to Wilson. [/quote]

The city doesn't owe people the right to feed to a particular high school in perpetuity just because they bought a place with that expectation. In VA, they redraw boundaries all of the time. It's a contentious process, but homeowners don't get to sue. No judge will entertain such a lawsuit.

Now, if some people in the city get to feed to a particular school based on their expensive addtess , while others get uncertainty, it would be pretty easy for the parents in the controlled choice area to sue claiming unequal treatment under the law.

I do agree that handing people that uncertainty could result in movement to the suburbs. It's so odd that these changes would be contemplated with no reference to San Francisco or Boston. SF has the lowest percentage of families with school aged children of any city in the country.[/quote]

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