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Wow! I must have stuck a chord with you. The very idea that you have to send your child to a school with black and brown people got you in a tizzy, didn't it. I think you're in a fantasy if you think that people in large numbers can up and move. Many can, many can't. The many that can't will be going EofP and guess what- making a school better. Horrible thought, I know.
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Um really?!?

OK so if you have been here long enough or know the people who have you would know that the majority of these Shepard Park, 16st Heights and Crestwood folks going to Deal are black.  You would also know that in previous generations these black folks would not go to the local public schools with poorer performing black kids, they would go private.  I am black and in that area and I am not afraid of black or brown folks. I and my friends are afraid of our kids not being challenged or well educated.  [/quote]

I'm with you PP. I live in 16th Street Heights, and am white, (West, Deal, Roosevelt) and all of my parent friends (different backgrounds/races/incomes) in the neighborhood take offense at that as well. I don't want to move. I like my park, I like my backyard, I like my neighbors, and I'll probably find a way to stay at West, once my kid is old enough to attend. [/quote]

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