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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It's great for people to want more diverse schools, but I don't think the answer to that is bussing the kids that will create the diversity to the school farther away from their homes. RCF did substantial outreach to its community, including targeted outreach to the more diverse areas that feed into the school -- and the overwhelming majority wanted a closer school. It appears that this factor outweighed the over-crowdedness issue and the relatively small difference in diversity that would result at the two schools. Maybe the Superintendent thought that it would be pretty lame to disregard the input of those lower-SES and/or minority communities[/quote]

I think the Superintendent was trying to please as many people as possible . . . I think he's counting on the fact that people are not focusing on the over-capacity/growth projections/limitation of physical plant for MS#2.  The people heavily involved in the process have kids in middle school now (or they will be in the next couple of years).  So they are looking at this like, meh, so my kid goes to a school that's at capacity.  This doesn't take into account the fact that the projections probably are too conservative, since there is perennial under-projection of the number of school age kids who will live in new apartments/condos, and the very real possibility that MS#2 will be OVER capacity on Day 1.  But look forward into the future just a little bit (5-10 years out) and easily you now have Westland, comfortable in its current footprint, perhaps nearing capacity and perhaps not, and MS#2 bursting at the seams AND loaded with more of the FARMS and other populations needing more resources (and whose parents are less able to devote time and money to the PTA).  That's not equitable.[/quote]

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