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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a RCFEM parent, but I do live in a neighborhood that feeds into SSIMS. Just to clarify one point, has anyone looked at the number of RCF SI students who would naturally feed into SSIMS if they weren't at RCF?

The reason I ask is b/c I don't completely buy the argument that these kids would essentially be friendless coming over to SSIMS. MANY kids in my neighborhood are in the SI program at RCFEM. They know both the kids in our neighborhood and the kids at school. Some of the parents I know are weighing which middle school they'd want to go to b/c SSIMS would be more convenient.

The kids in our area know each other from so many different places. I suspect the move away from some friends and closer to others is a problem that parents are overestimating.[/quote]

A few children (sometimes very few) do choose SSIMS.  Nonetheless, if you are a parent at all, then I think you can agree that other parents are capable of estimating the extent to which separation from peers and community will weigh on their own child.  The real issue is why make the change at all when it may have such an extreme cost to a group of children with very small potential for a programmatic benefit for a small number of other students.  Forcing RCF students out makes as much sense as changing the cluster boundary.  If Westland has too many students, the burden of any change must be shared, and not be imposed by an organized group of strangely embittered parents.  [/quote]

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