Apparently SOMEONE voted or finagled politically to have areas that are in Alexander Wilson's 'catchment area' be eligible to attend Samuel Powel instead before Penn Alexander was built and NOW be eligible to attend Penn Alexander.
Only part of the former Powel exception area, which you have acknowledged is in another part of the district, got the green light to go to Penn Alexander. As a 20+ year Employee of the School District of Philadelphia, there has ALWAYS been finagling of 'catchment areas', usually known as "school boundaries". The squeaky wheels, the ins and those who wield power usually get what they want. The rest are stuck with the traditional school boundary and feeder areas. That is classic Philadelphia politics for those who know the ropes and how to manipulate them. On 7/7/08 8:37 PM, "Anthony West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a genuine falsehood, one that the writer should know better > about by now. *All* public schools have catchment areas and always have. > In this respect, public schools are exactly like parochial schools, > which also have catchment areas. > > Nobody ever gets to vote on these catchment areas. They have always (for > hundreds of years) been determined by the authorities that administer > these school systems. That doesn't mean Penn Alexander and St. Francis > de Sales are in any way illegitimate. > > People who keep repeating the phrase "catchment area" as if it were > something new and unusual, are people who don't know how K-8 education > has been working for most Philadelphians for a century or so. Welcome to > Philly, friends and neighbors! Now learn the ropes. > > -- Tony West > >> "no one asked for a catchment area in the first place, the public >> didn't vote for it (in fact it was voted down by uccc) -- and yet here >> it is, in our public education system! you see, penn put the public >> school there for those who could afford to pay the price of using it! >> it's not the penn school's job to figure out when you want a public >> school!" >> .................. >> UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN > > ---- > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the > list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see > <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
