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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, barcroft is going to get even worse. The new school will be at TJ and the kids living in alcova heights million dollar homes won't have to go to barcroft in 2019.

Got news for you school board, [b]if you don't zone some of the kids in barcroft apartments to the new school at TJ! Barcroft elementary will be about 80-90 percent FARMs.[/b] Barcroft only has a small area of single family homes, and most are modest in comparison to alcova heights. If you don't do the boundary right you just put another school even further into the poverty hole, albeit less crowded until more affordable housing goes up.

So, you think those of us who live in barcroft could maybe see our tax assessments go down since our property values are about to tank even further? That may be the only positive that comes out of this.

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This is true. It has been publicly stated that the new ES at TJ will relieve crowding at Randolph and Barcroft. That's the purpose of the new school. The other options would've been to add on to Barcroft and Randolph.

The affluent single family home neighborhoods closer to TJ will go to the new ES, and the concentrations of poverty at Barcroft and Randolph will dramatically increase. And as other posters have stated, the local Latino community does not want to be bused. Socio-economic integration has always been a touchy subject, and one that the school board will likely want to stay clear of. The school board has stayed away from the issue of integration for years if not decades. [/quote]

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