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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Zactly.  What IS clear is that somebody's tryna steal Ward 3's cheese.  They spent a long time making that cheese, now some less-off folks tryna steal it.  They should spend their valuable time making their own cheese  rather than plotting to steal somebody else's.  They think they have a right to that cheese, somehow, I guess just because they live in the same city.

But, seriously, the solution is not to cut into neighborhood schools, when there are different approaches that can achieve the same goal, such as charter schools.  Charter schools are designed to allow everyone access, but only when families CHOOSE  to participate.  Or, similarly, create more application-only schools, as families ALSO choose to participate in those.  But, otherwise, the intrusion on neighborhood schools in Ward 3 (I name Ward 3 only because that's where most of the good cheese is) is rightly perceived as grabby and, frankly, lazy.  Get to work and build your own good schools, y'all, or if that's too difficult, go the charter route and promote the expansion of charters. Or do both.  Those options are much more civic-minded than trying to set up an easy hand-out.[/quote]

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