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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Ward 3 parents on here aren't doing themselves any favors.  I was sympathetic to their concerns because they have the most to lose.  But it doesn't take hipster glasses to see that very few posters from Ward 3 see themselves as part of a collective system and they clearly dislike other parents and kids outside their ward, either because of their choices or circumstances.  Studies show allotting 20% of seats to low-income kids helps those kids, but doesn't hurt the other 80%.  That's not a tipping point, so why not help those needy kids?

As this public debate continues, don't expect the other 7 wards to care about your concerns when you show such disregard for theirs.[/quote]

sounds like you're looking for an excuse to disregard ward 3 parents.

I bet there's nothing in those studies that show that moving kids away from their good neighborhood schools helps them in any way -- or that such a system would even work.  It wouldn't be long before families moved out of the neighborhood that was using their kids for this experiment.  Besides who says it would be the needy kids who gets the spots-- it could just as easily be high SES kids from hipster neighborhoods who won the lottery.[/quote]

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