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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