You're assuming that the neighborhood school that others have to choose from are worthy. Mine is definitely not! At this point I rather be in a position of having more choices. Liz Greenbaum Longfellow "Russell Wayne Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I live in an area without a guaranteed community school. I have selected a school in part because a neighbor child attends as well, but unlike most of the city we are not guaranteed any school. The alternative I understand is more choice, but at least half or more of those are as much as a 30-40 minute bus ride which I think is too long for a kindergartener. So in the end I really don't have any more choice than those people with guaranteed community schools. So in an effort to level the playing field until everyone is guaranteed a community school, I think it would be beneficial if the schools gave parents in non-guaranteed community school areas the guarantee of their first choice. This would allow them to select a school where other neighbors would like to go and it could be better coordinated by those neighborhoods, ala a sudo-community school within the magnet system. Has anybody else incurred this problem and/or have any other ideas? Russell W. Peterson Ward 9 Standish R U S S E L L P E T E R S O N D E S I G N "You can only fly if you stretch your wings." Russell W. Peterson, RA, CID Founder 3857 23rd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407 612-724-2331 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail