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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is not a major disparity in capacity between option 1 and option 7, so if that's your argument you need to be supporting some other option.  There is a disparity in FARMS but it's not as if one school is at 20% and the other is at 60%.  [/quote]

I see, so we're going to debate "major" now?  The bottom line is that Option 1 provided the closest demographic balance between the two schools, and it allowed for both schools to grow.  You seem to be arguing that it's OK if we don't achieve the closest demographic balance for whatever reason, perhaps the superintendent's faux argument on transportation.

Let's say you're right.  Option 7 still maxes out the capacity of the new school while creating a more affluent, less diverse school with excess capacity.  That inequity would be bad enough, but it exacerbates the inequitable educational facilities that we start with.  The new school is built on hilly land that is less than half the size of Westland.  The new school has less physical plant (in all fairness, not a catastrophe), and less outside facilities, than Westland.  Never mind the lack of fairness, how is this new school supposed to accommodate any future growth? Under the worst case scenario, Westland can build on its site.  Further, why is it that the new, less equitable school goes to the community with more diversity and three times the FARMS rate of the larger, more affluent school?

Based on a reading of the input of all the PTAs involved, the superintendent's decision imposed a weighting that does not reflect the views of the majority of stakeholders affected.  [/quote]

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