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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d be in favor of that. Make Nauck neighborhood, true neighborhood. Give them the best school and all the resources denied over the years. [/quote]

No one is "denying" resources to Drew, the neighborhood doesn't have resources. I'm an UMC white person and I live in Nauck and I sent both my kids to Drew (youngest now in MS). Most of the people living in the neighborhood who just want to attend a neighborhood school--the ones who don't choice out to the Montessori side of Drew, Claremont, or ATS--don't have the kinds of resources other families do. And I don't just mean money, I mean:

--time
--computer access 
--experience planning and executing school events
--knowledge of extracurriculars and enrichment activities to share with other parents
--transportation for playdates and afterschool/weekend activities 
--understanding of how to advocate for the school within the local political system
--business connections for donations, field trips, speakers, sponsors

When I started participating in countywide activities, it was a world of difference. At Nauck events, parents talk about their kids and their neighbors. At other schools or countywide events, parents talk about all kinds of opportunities -- things for the kids, things for the schools, things for the community -- things people in south Arlington have no idea about. I had no idea until I started talking to better-informed people. This is why you need more socioeconomic diversity at each school--you don't know what you don't know.

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