What a relief to finally have some answers about how the proposed Boston Public Schools rezoning models will affect access to quality schools (“Study finds inequities in schools’ zone plans,” Metro, Oct. 1). Using the city’s own data, Meira Levinson, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the mother of two students in the Boston system, shows that increasing the number of zones would further restrict the access many low-income communities have to quality schools.
As a parent with two children in the Boston schools, I find it frustrating that the city keeps beating the drum that parents’ number one goal is a school “close to home.” I’ve been to many Boston Public Schools meetings during this process where parents have expressed their primary goal as sending their children to a high-quality school. Somehow these responses don’t seem to make it into the school system’s reports.
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METCO would not exist if the BPS system worked.
Ever since moving to Massachusetts I have been amazed at the school assignment process in Boston. Correct me if I am wrong but the choice should not be between a school close to home and a quality school. Shouldn't the Boston Public Schools administrators work on making every school a quality school instead of having kids being bussed all over the place and some ending up in "bad" schools?