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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that, if any preference is adopted, it should be as it was originally outlined--for people, regardless at income, who are in low-performing schools.[/quote]

I prefer the focus to be keep on the child's SES  not on the artificial construct (in my mind) of a "low performing" school.[/quote]

I don't think there is anything artificial about a school where 70% of the kids are not at grade level. Why should working class families at these schools be forced to stay because they don't qualify as at risk and can't afford to move in boundary for a promising school? In fact, they are not going to compromise their kid's education; they will either go charter or move to the 'burbs, where they can afford to live IB for a good school. This will leave the struggling schools even worse off.[/quote]
This. Why is the solution always to screw the middle class? We're the boots on the ground. We make the investments in our communities and schools. We work the hardest. To solution to make sure that our needs are ignored is going to have to stop if the city is going to continue to grow. The ultra-rich and the poorest of the poor are pretty stagnant numbers-wise. The middle guys are what's moving this city forward.[/quote]

People who are in boundary for my school go to Hearst, Eaton, Francis-Stevens, and a few other schools on the list. So yes, it does make a difference.
Isn't this what people are already doing anyway?  For example, it's not like anyone was realistically planning to lottery into Key.  I don't see how this isn't pretty much the status quo.  It just formalizes a few things.[/quote][/quote]

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