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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, not BK, but what did you guys expect? That we can’t read or see proximity? This is supposed to be a Drew thread but is now dominated by ppl crying crocodile tears over getting more rich (when the alternative is creating a school at least 2/3 low income) and whining that outsiders should just sit down and shut up (and accept some bs gerrymandered boundary). No wonder you don’t want to post on Aem. [/quote]

You are setting up a false choice.  Columbia Heights is not the ONLY option for lowering Drew’s FARMS rate. Personally, I’d like to see some options where more Oakridge units are drawn in.   And lots of people have posted on AEM about why we want to stay together, but when you are saying we are crying “crocodile tears” you perpetuate the hate.  And by the way, I live north of CP and yes, I don’t want my school to get more rich and white.  So FU for saying otherwise. [/quote]

If you really don't want your school to NOT get "more rich and white" your number one priority should be to get a CAF building in your zone. Fleet/Henry doesn't have any; that is why your farms rate has gone down by 35 points since 2002. It will keep going down as rents go up. Keeping the PUs south of the Pike won't help your stated goal of preserving your schools diversity, not for long if at all. I would take Henry's "diversity" argument at face value if the keep Henry together people were also saying, "hey, please send us Gilliam Place: we want the diversity, it's as close to our school as all the units currently going to Henry south of the pike, and it's a guarantee for the foreseeable future that we will have a significant number of disadvantaged kids. Our students will benefit from goi to class with kids from a very different background, and they will benefit from a well resourced community that welcomes them for who they are. But you're not doing that. Why? So Barcroft can climb to 70% farms?[/quote]

I am PP and I did ask for Alcova Heights to be split so that Gilliam place could go to Fleet but the UMC single family homes could stay at Barcroft. We are also picking up 2 Alcova Heights PUs that have higher FARMS.  On the downside, we are losing a higher-farms apartment building in Penrose.  I would like for that PU to stay at fleet.
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