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    <author><![CDATA[Willa Powell]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Bringing neighborhood schools into this conversation is a knee-jerk reaction that defies rational thought. Our high schools have been choice-based since the 1970s as part of a voluntary desegregation  effort (to avoid the court-ordered deseg found in the south).
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Owens F. Shepard]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As much as I agree with sending students to schools within their neighborhoods, I don't understand how it can can happen when a number of students come from nomadic households. A student may live on Genesee St. at the start of the school year but by the end of the school year he/she has had 3 different addresses in 3 different zip codes within the city.<br>
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As for dealing with the issues of mass numbers of students downtown and the fights that take place because of it, maybe the district should go back to bussing students back to their neighborhoods on school busses instead of using RTS.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Yugoboy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Chaim DeLoye said: Clearly what the "problem " is is a matter of opinion. For example, is it how to stop young people from congregating at the Liberty Pole?
        
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      <![CDATA[I absolutely agree w/ McFadden re: Neighborhood Schools (we never should've abandoned them in the first place for a multitude of reasons). There is simply NO GOOD REASON for throngs of kids to be bussed downtown and given the opportunity to cause havoc.<br>
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"And the fights only fuel perceptions among some business owners and visitors that downtown is unsafe at a time when we desperately need more businesses and visitors."
        
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      <![CDATA[When City Council was debating the bus barn three years ago, I presented an article from a Detroit newspaper which explained that their new award-winning "Rosa Parks Transit Center" had to be shut down, frequently, when fights broke out . School age youth transferred at the new Center. The police couldn't handle it, and so the terminal was shut down periodically.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Howard J. Eagle]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Chaim DeLoye made a number of excellent points in his comments concerning this article. With regard to the list of inappropriate behavior on the part of RPD --- let's not forget that numerous officers, including the Chief himself, were recorded (by the City's own Red Light Cameras) engaging in traffic violations (while operating City-owned vehicles).
        
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      <![CDATA["Changes were made to the busing situation last year to reduce the number of young people downtown at peak times, and it seemed to make a difference....But the fights have started again. And now there are questions about whether a police officer acted appropriately when he allegedly pepper-sprayed a student following a fight that happened about a week ago...."But the problem goes much deeper than the officer’s conduct."<br>
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Clearly what the "problem " is is a matter of opinion.
        
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