Freshmen overwhelm Garfield
That's what they've discovered the hard way this fall at what is clearly Seattle's most desirable high school: Garfield, in the Central Area. So many kids were assigned to the school (300 more than capacity), and so many of those have shown up, that some students have been without full class schedules while officials scramble for extra teachers and space for all the bodies.
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Seattle Times staff columnist
When Seattle went back to neighborhood-based schools recently, unwinding 30 years of experiments with integration and school choice, at the core of it all was a simple guarantee.
If you live near a school, inside a boundary drawn by the district, you can go to that school. No ifs, buts or constitutionally questionable whereases.
It turns out it holds true no matter how many kids show up.
That's what they've discovered the hard way this fall at what is clearly Seattle's most desirable high school: Garfield, in the Central Area. So many kids were assigned to the school (300 more than capacity), and so many of those have shown up, that some students have been without full class schedules while officials scramble for extra teachers and space for all the bodies.
"My son has been going for the first period and hanging around with his friends, not really doing much,"
