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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Right. But the zoning that resulted in the concentration of affordable market-rate housing in your school district (which you apparently find so upsetting) is a legacy of decisions made by the BOS when it was controlled by conservative Republicans. Don’t blame liberals because you can’t afford to be with your people in Clifton or Great Falls.

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And, it is not the BOS who decides where to build schools or makes boundary decisions.  And, it has been a looooong time since our BOS was controlled by conservative Republicans.  And, our SB has never been controlled by the GOP since it went to elected positions.

Look no further than the hypocrisy of former SB member Kathy Smith on this issue.  She sent the trailer park to her neighborhood school in order to get full day K for the neighborhood school.  As soon as all schools got full day K, she moved the trailer park out.  Fact.[/quote]

As opposed to Tessie Wilson, a Republican SB member who orchestrated a number of the boundary changes that concentrated poverty at Poe MS and Annandale HS?[/quote]

That was a mistake on her party, but was it a republican controlled board then? Doubtful.[/quote]

The practice at the time was to defer to the School Board member who wanted to change boundaries for a school in his or her district.  Democrats went along with Wilson (R) when she wanted to move students in Braddock out of schools in Mason, and Republicans went along with Smith (D) when she played around with Poplar Tree boundaries.  Sandy Evans (D) actually opposed the last round of changes affecting Annandale that Wilson engineered, but couldn't stop it.  [/quote

People have understood civil rights boundary issues for decades. They just choose to ignore them. We have at large members for the very purpose of using their influence to affect the county as a whole. Not sure what Moon has done all these years to fulfill that responsibility.][/quote]

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