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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wakefield was the nicest. With the new boundary change to stuff more low income kids into the school, they are taking away the beautiful open ceilings and adding floor space above for classrooms. The school is projected to be grossly overcrowded in the near future. I know WL is overcrowded, but it has a much lower percentage of poor kids. This county sticks it to the poor kids.[/quote]

I was just looking at County projections, and Wakefield is projected to have over 3K students within the next decade! If no new high school is built to relieve the school population explosion, it's going to be nightmare.[/quote]

It’s going to be a nightmare either way. Either they’ll build a full featured neighborhood school at the career center that siphons off half of Wakefield’s middle and upper middle class (the school is currently 50 percent FRL), or they won’t and kids will be going to school for a half day. This idea that they can build an option school at the career center with no sports or other extra curriculars and get thousands of students to voluntarily go there is just a fantasy. There’s a big reckoning coming.[/quote]

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