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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then, who is pushing for the bounary redrawing, the kids in Kennedy or the kids in Whitman?[/quote]

Started by the former SMOB, Board of Education voted for it, since then picked up by Students against Gun Violence.  And various people on this Board.

Anyone who says anything against it gets labeled a bigot/racist/elitist who only cares about property values and not kids.[/quote]

The arguments against the boundary analysis are:

1. "My property values!"
2. "Bringing poor kids into my kid's school will harm my kid's education."
3. "I don't want my kid bused across the county!"

#1 is unrelated to education. #2 is empirically false (just ask those of us with kids at high schools where there are poor kids - to say nothing of those of us who have poor kids!) [b]And nobody is proposing #3.[/b]

So what's left?[/quote]

This is actually a major argument for me.

My kids are currently being bused to a MS that is over two miles away.  Despite the fact that there is a MS that is WALKING distance from us.  It makes ZERO sense.  If they want to re-zone everyone to the closest ES/MS/HS, I could get on board with that.  It would save money and make sense.  However, that doesn't seem to be the case from anything I've heard.  [/quote]

Based on school size and location, this is almost certainly completely impossible.  [/quote]

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