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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep hoping pp. so long as your kids are unborn, you can afford that timetable.  The rest of us need good schools now. So we have to move, win the lottery or go private. [/quote]

Well, I don't really have to hope. It's playing out in front of us. Just look at these boundary suggestions. Demographics seem to be taking priority, as they should. But you are correct, I have the luxury of time. My point above has more to do with some  people's weird investment in certain zipcodes staying down.  Gentrification brings a lot of feelings out of people. Certainly the populations being displaced have a right to have feelings. People who clawed their way out can have a hard time looking back and seeing the improvements they didn't get to enjoy.   [/quote]

You don't actually have to move if you are rezoned to Wakefield. You could try it out and see how it is. If they redistrict in a way that changes the demographics the school changes. Look at W&L. Years ago, people would have freaked out if they were rezoned from Yorktown to W&L and now the Yorktown kids are choosing to go there. [/quote]

It's not a good analogy, since APS treated W-L as its favorite child by giving W-L both AP and IB.  So W-L gets transfers from Yorktown and Wakefield, but few students can transfer out.

Make Wakefield the only AP or IB school in the county, as discussed earlier in the thread, and the dynamics might change. [/quote]

It is a very good analogy in that W-L used to be considered the ugly stepchild compared to Yorktown and now many (most?) consider them to be on fairly equal footing, and some (many?) even think W-L is a better choice.[/quote]

No, your analogy is bad, for precisely the reasons stated.  If W-L did not have both IB and AP, which attracts students from the AP-only schools and stems pupil placements to Yorktown, it would still be considered the ugly stepchild.  Some still think it is, despite APS favoring it over the other two schools. [/quote]

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