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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't seem to be aware that your school is part of a school system and that that school system is part of a political system. If the only issue was crowding at a small set of schools wotp you would be right, but it's not. [/quote]

I am aware of that. Making our schools worse, isn't the answer. The problems in Ward 3 schools aren't the same as the problems at Ward 8 schools, so why try to fix both of them with the same solution? It's not going to work.[/quote] the fix requires some pain WOTP because the solutions for the WOTP schools (a mix of expansions, boundary reductions and reductions in OOB admissions) are not politically palitable outside Ward 3. [/quote]

The fix doesn't require pain to ward 3 schools. Thinking that is just mean spirited. That's one of the things that's bothering me. Some of this feels like a mean spirited chipping away at our neighborhood schools. We have OOB lotteries. Great. OOB kids are welcomed as long as their is space. Not a problem. But as soon as neighborhood kids start filling the schools, there's an outcry. Now we have to be forced into having 10-20% of the seats at schools set aside for kids from failing schools. Where does it end?[/quote]

Mean spirited or not, people have been chipping away at neighborhood schools since the first charter came to town.  Those families who win the lottery and live near the "sought-after charter" are OK.  Those who can afford to live where there are already good neighborhood schools  are OK.  Everyone else is not OK, but remember -- it's not the fault of those other families -- it's the fault of the system.  Go after the system -- not other parents.[/quote]

Families who decided to go charter weren't forced out of schools they contributed to and wanted their kids to attend. They chose charters for various reasons, and for many these charters were Better than their IB school. What's happening in ward 3 feels like we are being forced into schools that are worse than the ones we bought houses to be IB for ---at the request of families who are not happy with their IB schools.[/quote]

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