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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you saying "invovled" ward 5 parents would rather send their kids across town than send them to a new ward 5 school because a majority of neighborhood kids aren't so great?

I understand that thinking, but don't think it should be accomodated in a democracy.    People can't have everything just their way at taxpayers expense.

If people like living in an "urban" atmosphere, but don't want your kids going to school with the majority of the kids there, they can't expect the city to build a free school for them across town, can they?

They can stay put and pay private school tuition, move to ward 3, or work on getting other acceptable ward 5 parents to commit to ward 5 schools -  but expecting to have a school across town with ready-made good students in it seems like a bit much.

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Until the OOB option is taken away this will never work.  You are right Ward 5 parents are driving their kids all over the city rather than go to local schools. I am doing it. No one wants to be the first to try and change a school that needs more parent involvement, better behaved kids etc. . That is the tragedy of the commons, not an issue of democracy.  [/quote]

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