[UC] School facts: (Was: Re: The real-estate Pennspiracy)

[Anthony West]

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!"
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UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN 

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