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(2)  The animosity that everyone has toward people living around the new SWS who are agitating for proximity.  The mood seems to be, "well, you're doing well enough financially -- why should you get a nice neighborhood school?"  I have a feeling that if a citywide school (like SWS) was placed in the middle of the poorest neighborhood in Ward 8, but kids from those neighborhoods were only allowed in through the lottery, then people on DCUM would be singing a different tune about what's fair with regard to proximity.[/quote]

City-wide preference for SWS obviously won't help the hapless LT crowd, but it also won't help SWS.  The program has been strong as much because it has the lowest percentage of FARMs kids EotP as anything else.  LT will only turn around once the building is renovated, the principal goes, and Tommy Wells, who doesn't give a damn, also goes.  It will start to turn eventually, maybe in 5 years.  In the meantime, SWS will slip, because it won't be as high-SES in a few years and will lose some PTA cohesion and momentum/fund-raising capacity as a result.  The principal and teachers want neighborhood preference, won't get it, and may go themselves as a result.  Great.  Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, or at least make it ill.
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This is nonsense. There are plenty of citywide schools that are highly successful. Keeping poor people out is not a good solution.[/quote]

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