Boots Whitmer's response to the SfSchools BOE Questionnaire

We have our first response to our 2006 SfSchools BOE Questionnaire! It is fitting that Boots Whitmer should lead the pack. She has always been an active member of the SfSchools list. Boots' answers are thorough and in-depth—which is no surprise to those of us that have followed her positions on SfSchools. She has set the bar high for the other candidates.

I'll give one excerpt from her response to the SfSchools BOE Questionnaire that touches on one of the main themes of her campaign:

I am confident that neighborhood school assignment works better than any other assignment system devised so far. It's not perfect, but it's the best. We have tried the lottery/so-called-choice system and it has failed. We have a better chance of improving neighborhood schools than we do randomly assigned schools. We stand a far better chance of staunching the bleeding of families from our midst with neighborhood schools. The desegregation of our schools was better under neighborhood schools. We need to return to neighborhood schools."

Thanks Boots.