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ACtually Brent is already overcrowded in the lower grades with in boundary families who have a right to their neighborhood school.  What would you do with those families while the seats they would occupy are occupied with the 35% low SES kids?   My feeling is that the answer is not in engineering a mix in only the school, but engineering a mix in the neighborhood around the school.  More affordable, mixed-income housing that feeds into Brent. 
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I'm in boundry for Brent and I agree with this entirely.  Change has happened very fast-- uncomfortably fast-- but setting aside spots is insulting to all.  All neighborhoods should have great schools in their neighborhood-- kids should not be bussed into a handful of good schools.  But we appreciate diversity in our nieghborhood schools, but it get that we should focus on making neighborhoods more diverse.  The city should work on creating more affordable housing in Brent area (increase section 8 vouchers, etc.) and work to develop nicer housing stock to attract high income families to neighborhoods that currently have few high income families.     [/quote] All neighborhoods should have great schools, but they don't. Until they do mandating a degree of socioeconomic diversity makes sense. Cheaper than trying to engineer the housing market. Nobody needs to be bussed. IB kids are already coming to L-T, it's just a matter of ensuring that a reasonable number of places stay open for lower SES kids when schools gentrify. Curious how this would be insulting.[/quote]

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