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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The reason I posted all of that to being with is a think it's silly that's there's this perfectly good community that will help bring the FARMs rate down that's adjacent to the school but nobody wants to talk about it.

I'm cool with moving some of Oakridge too but which planning units? [/quote]

So here's the conundrum with the Oakridge units, one that I think staff couldn't solve, so they moved none: since the time of SAWG, The Berkely has been "saved" by AHC and is being doubled in size (no. of overall units) and many of the 155 CAFs will be family-sized units. There's no way to grab the higher income Oakridge PUs while maintaining contiguity and not also taking that CAF currently under construction to Drew, not to mention really ignoring walk zones and putting a bunch of walkers onto a bus that will actually drive past their previous school. They've drawn a pretty fair and balanced boundary for both Oakridge and Hoffman-Boston. Now they need to tweak the rest. [/quote]

I have to agree.  Even though the focus of SAWG and its recommendation was heavily on relief for Oakridge and the assumption that overcrowding there would be relieved by sending people to Drew, Hoffman Boston makes more sense.  There is a prior history of that area attending Hoffman Boston.  You just drive right up Army Navy Drive onto Columbia Pike.  it does not take the most concentrated low-income PUs and does not exacerbate Hoffman Boston's FRL%.

People just need to accept that this is a high density area, schools are close together, some can walk to multiple schools, and people need to be shuffled around.  Sorry if you miss out on a brand new shiny building.  For the Henry kids, they didn't have it and therefore aren't losing something they never experienced.  For the Abingdon kids, it is a bummer to leave a fresh a new building after a year or two.  For the vast majority of us, we've never had the pretty new building and never will.  Oh well.  Personally, I wouldn't have wanted Discovery.  I find it much too sterile and I'd rather have an outdoor slide my kids would actually use regularly.

Henry needs to help fill Drew.  If you have to shift boundaries westward, then shift them westward.  It sets it up nicely for the next round where you can keep shifting them counterclockwise around the County and push some of the west end of the Pike north of 50, etc.
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