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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean Nottingham.[/quote]

No, I'm talking about the Tuckahoe letter from the winter. Nottingham has very few families on the south side of Lee Highway whereas Tuckahoe has a lot. That doesn't mean either PTA should disregard a portion of their community, but it was more egregious coming from Tuckahoe. Plus, it was striking that for Tuckahoe, everyone who signed that letter (which wasn't the full board) was within the Tuckahoe walk zone but not the walk zone of any other school, so their personal interests clearly were aligned with the letter.

If you look at the people who did the majority of the work on behalf of Nottingham, interestingly, most of them either live south of Lee Highway or are in the area that's closer to Discovery and might get rezoned there either way. Early on there were a few people from the area walkable only to Nottiingham and not also to Tuckahoe or Discovery who expressed concern about whether those people (not all of whom were board members, and not all board members were heavily involved) might actually undermine the effort to keep Nottingham a neighborhood school to suit their own interests, because the ones from south of Lee would want to ensure they could go to Reed and the ones closer to Discovery would want more of Nottingham to move with them if they had to move.[/quote]

Can you explain what people did for their "work on behalf of Nottingham"?  I'm not trolling, I'm honestly ignorant of how this all works and I'm curious what exactly people did and how this all went down.  I've read many of these threads and seen statements like this, but I haven't seen it spelled out what work people actually did.  [/quote]

It sounds so much less sexy when you realize it means that those people just showed up at open office hours, wrote letters, and spoke at school board meetings.  The same things other schools did.[/quote]

+1. People like to make it out like Nottingham worked some witchcraft, but it was the same kind of stuff everyone did.[/quote]

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