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[quote=Anonymous]I'm super confused by the whole debate as I haven't been tracking it very well.
One thing I saw on a listserve is that the proposal being pushed on the change petition would put WJ at over 90% capacity.  That seems dumb when we've waited about 15 years for the new high school that was supposed to relieve the massive over-congestion -- it will just be oversubscribed again in a couple of years and then we'll wait another 20 for a fix to that?

My general feelings about HS are that --

they should be between 80-90% capacity;

the kids should not have to drive far to get there since the classes already start go-awful early and ideally there should be public bus lines to help them get there;

the specialized magnet idea is really dumb (my hometown went to a model where all the schools were specialty-focus charter-type schools and they are basically all just bad -- bad arts focus, bad tech focus, bad journalism focus, bad law/justice focus, etc. etc.) -- these gimmicks almost never add to the education plus most 13 year olds aren't in a position to be picking a focus area anyway.[/quote]

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