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[quote=Anonymous]Re moving Bancroft and Shepherd out of the Deal boundary:  There is just a handful of non-Hispanic white kids graduating from Shepherd and Bancroft each year.  Assuming some natural attrition to charter schools, you'd have about 6 or 7 white kids  per grade going to your EOTP middle school option.   That simply isn't going to put a dent in making a more diverse middle school EOTP.  And given concerns about being the "only" of a certain ethic group, that 6-7 number is probably high.    But you'd kick out lots of middle class AA families and working class Hispanic families from Deal in the process.

If the utopian goal is to have a truly desirable alternative to Deal that moves people out of Deal, the change needs to be bigger -- like moving a large, largely-white school like Lafayette and giving the new option some bells and whistles (advanced placement classes, etc).  If Lafayette families  still don't want to commute to a MacFarland or similar souped-up new option, well then the real issue isn't overcrowding at Deal.

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