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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Help me then, what implications do you draw. There is, IIUC, a massive overcrowding problem at Wilson.   That means redrawing Wilson boundaries, with knock on effects on hgih schools across the district.  There is IIUC a massive overcrowding problem at Deal, which means redrawing Deal - the knock on effects of that, combined with general dissatisfaction with EC's means considerable change to MS boundaries.    Elementary boundaries are being changed mostly for reasons unrelated to overcrowding, AFAICT - for walkability, to simplify feeder patterns, etc.

In which case the lack of schools on the list has NO implication for the necessity of these changes. Do you agree? [/quote]

I identified Wilson, Deal and Murch as examples of schools whose overcrowding problems were addressed by the final recommendations in my very first post on this thread. If that is the entire list (which is not the case because two more examples have been added), then the new plan is not addressing wide-spread overcrowding, but rather overcrowding in very few schools. It does seem that this is the case, even with the expanded five member list of schools. Your argument appears to agree with this, but offer a justification.

So, the main implication I draw -- just be clear -- is that the final recommendations only address over-crowding problems at Wilson, Deal, Murch, Stoddert, and Amidon-Bowen (and one poster has made a fairly convincing argument that Stoddert should not be included). Given the prominence of overcrowding as a justification for the boundary and feeder changes, it seems a little underwhelming. A cynical person -- not me because I haven't a single cynical cell in my body -- might be led to believe that overcrowding was hyped in much the same manner as WMDs in the Iraq invasion. Let's hope that's where the comparison ends.
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I think you're making a PP's point here; you're looking for ways to discredit the need the boundary changes.  Even if it were just these five schools that are overcrowded, throw in the need to stack the feeder patterns so they make sense and alleviate the EC mess in W4 and W5..that is more than enough justification for this process.[/quote]

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