My point is that we are three different communities and with all that mixing we'll be the opposite of inbred, like if a rainbow could be just white.

I'm pretty sure not many folks up on QA and Magnolia defaulted on their liar-loans. I welcome them to BHS.

It's a draw bridge though so we're only neighbors when it's down. When it's up we are more neighborly with Olympic Manor et al.

let's see, there's two 2lbs bags of French Roast beans, 1lbs of ground Sumatran, and whatever's left of the decaf, say 1/2lbs. S0 5 1/2 lbs.

You do realize that the IB program at Ingraham was supposed to also be an all-city draw. So its location is not the reason why they didn't do the program there. Additionally, Cleveland is not centrally located. It is about as far South as Ballard is North.

The reason why Cleveland became an option school was to ensure Magnolia/QA children don't go to Garfield. Because with Cleveland as a neighborhood school it would be ridiculous to argue otherwise. Magnolia/QA effectively made it an option school — and frankly it already looks like the board doesn't know what they're doing with STEM there.

And the Cleveland technical program will only be a draw to the less affluent if it sucks. If it gets any traction, expect that it will be overrun by the affluent relatively quickly.

It's just reality. If you want to move ahead… don't work in the system. Work around it. As Theravdist says, deal with it. Figure out, by any means necessary, how to get yours. And as long as you don't get caught, you haven't done anything wrong. That's the game, plain and simple.

The affluent get that. Magnolia/QA get that. Until people realize that metaphorical casualties need to happen, we'll just be stuck on the same ride. This is why I don't shed a tear thinking about bankrupting Seattle Public Schools, if that's what it takes. Although, of course I'd hope that we could make forward progress short of that.

“i would rather my kid learn to deal with a larger classroom size and less supplies than trying to fit in with all the kids who feel a sense of entitlement b/c their parents can afford private school. “

Brilliant attitude. Using your “logic” they would be even better off by being dropped on a deserted island! Just think how much they'd learn!

“i would also have them deal with the challanges/pitfalls of pot and alcohol over the distribumtion of their moms prescription pills.”

Or you could be a responsible parent and talk to them about drugs/alcohol. Just a thought…

One of my children went to North Beach for one year. We picked it over our neighborhood/reference school, Loyal Heights, because of the impressive PTA and the match curriculum. We were super excited to put our child there.

What we found was a community that generally (there were exceptions) did not seem all that welcoming to families with a pair of working parents nor to our child's spirited personality. Everyone seemed overly obsessed with WASL scores, which given the small size of the school, could easily swing to a less-than-district-average with just a couple of less-than-average kids in a given class year.

Honestly, with all the development going in South Lake Union it's just a matter of time until the people living there start raising families and will need a school to send them to. They really should start planning for that now instead of waiting until it's too late.