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anotherMike: the argument that the school should just go somewhere else *is* classic NIMBY. I understand the arguments made by others about the large number of social services in the neighborhood (though I disagree that a boarding school is a "social service") and the challenges of drawing businesses. The disagreements I have with Mike, for example, boil down to a difference in perspective that I understand. I get and respect where he's coming from, I just disagree with the weight he gives this particular project, and I think the school will be a positive rather than a negative for the area. We're not talking about a meth clinic here.

Your argument, though, that the school should just go somewhere else, is not one I can respect. You're seriously going to tell a bunch of kids, "sorry, but you're not welcome here"? Who do you think you are? Why *should* they go somewhere else? That building does not belong to you or that neighborhood alone. It is a city resource and the kids at YBPCS have as much right to it as anyone else. The schools bid for it and YBPCS won, fair and square. Those kids are members of this city and the community just as much as you are, and they have the right to live in any part of it, not just the areas you deem acceptable.

by anony on Jan 25, 2011 12:16 pm • link • report