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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that none of the elementary schools that feed into West Springfield are Title 1, whereas all but one (the AAP center) of the elementary schools that feed into Lee High School are Title 1?  If that's not discriminatory, I don't know what is.[/quote]

Both the Lee and West Springfield boundaries are relatively compact, and on their face they don't look obviously gerrymandered to create an affluent school and a poor school. But Lee is near the older part of Springfield, with lots of garden apartments and small homes built in the 1950s, whereas most of the housing in the West Springfield district was built later and commands a higher price. You could swap some of the WS and Lee feeders to promote greater SES balance, but you'd have checker-board attendance areas and students with longer trips to school.[/quote]

If they changed the boundary assignments just to move some of the wealthier west springfield elementaries into Lee it WOULD be gerrymandering. People would be furious and property values would dive.[/quote]

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