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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious - are most of the posters here worried about how it is going to affect them personally and within their neighborhood (in other words, families who reside in the planning units that may get reassigned)? Or is there also a lot of concern coming from families who reside in planning units that are not going to get reassigned,  but are nevertheless worried about how decisions based on demographics might impact the school their child attends?  [/quote]

I know some find it hard to believe, but I am worried because I am genuinely interested in/concerned about the quality of education we are providing to the children of our community, and for that reason I don't think it's appropriate to concentrate low-income students in one school. Whatever happens doesn't really affect me or my children personally. My oldest just started college and my youngest is a 9th grader at W-L. Our planning unit is not in play, so I'm not worried about my neighbors' kids. I have no expectation that the overcrowding at W-L will be appreciably relieved during my youngest's tenure there. If APS acts and whatever they do immediately relieves some of the crowding at W-L, that's great, although my DC2's class (and the ones in front of him) will continue to be overly large. I also don't "worry" about the demographics of W-L changing in the way that I think you mean. W-L is more white and wealthy now than it was my DC1 started there and especially when we moved to this house, so I have nothing invested in keeping W-L's demographic status quo. I'd be perfectly happy to have the demographics shift back. I'm at all concerned about boundary drawing's impact on the value of our house.

Guess I'm just the neighborhood busybody.[/quote]

^^Should read: I'm NOT at all concerned about my property values.[/quote]

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