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Good start, but I see 40pgs of people suggesting that we should all want diversity [b]at any cost[/b]. I certainly hope all those families from Wburg and Stratford are offering to send their kids to S Arl middle schools even without the immersion program. [/quote]

No, [b]just at the cost of busing some kids[/b]. Which we already do for families near ATS and ASFS (and I would argue walkable ESs are more important than walkable MS because parents need to be able to get to ES much more frequently and because the older you are, the more important it is that you get out of your bubble)[/quote]

This is not an insignificant cost, on multiple levels.  First, the actual economic costs of more buses, more drivers, more bus storage.  All of which are in short supply already.  Second is the cost to the kids and families of breaking apart neighborhood schools.  I've posted multiple times that my family is less than a 10min walk on safe, surface streets to Swanson. Common sense says that busing my kids to Kenmore, while bringing buses of kids past our house to Swanson makes no sense. Third are the costs to our children in terms of lost sleep. There are already studies about the insufficient sleep our kids are getting, why put even more kids on buses than absolutely necessary?  It also will have a cost on commutes and traffic, since lots of parents will start driving their kids rather than having them catch a pre-dawn bus, and all that traffic was the outcry against a 4th HS at Kenmore.

There are lots of costs, making those options particularly bad.
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There is a much higher cost for our entire community, over the long term, if we concentrate poverty. It makes your concerns seem very small. [/quote]

Put another way, people are saying its OK with them that kids two miles away go to schools where more than 50% of the kids are in poverty, as long as their kids get to sleep 30 minutes later each morning. [/quote]

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