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[quote=Anonymous]I think there are legitimate, non-racist concerns for those of us who are currently in-boundary for WJ but are likely to get rezoned to Woodward.

My biggest concerns are with the quality of the personnel -- the teachers and the administrators. We have been extremely pleased with both at WJ. There's going to be a learning curve and integration period for a new administration and new set of teachers, and my younger kids are going to be the guinea pigs for that period. And there's no guarantee that Woodward will get great teachers and great administrators. We've had some negative experiences with teachers and administrators at the elementary and middle school levels. WJ is a known quantity.

WJ also has classes, programs and sport/club opportunities that are not likely to be offered at Woodward. So our younger kids are not likely to have the same opportunities that our older kids did at WJ.

I'm not worried about test scores of the school, because my kids will do fine. I'm also not worried about housing values. But I am worried about whether Woodward will be a good high school. You certainly can't assume that it will be a strong high school because it will continue to pull from neighborhoods that currently go to WJ -- in my view it's all about the teachers, administrators, class offerings, and extracurriculars available that feed into the quality of the school, not just the student body (and their parents).

One of the reasons we picked the WJ cluster over somewhere like Whitman is that we would rather our kids be in better integrated schools. So whether or not some people have thinly veiled racist issues about rezoning -- to call all rezoning concerns thinly veiled racism is a straw man and far, far too simplistic.[/quote]

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