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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe that post-Discovery, Madison was on the table when they were discussing the relocation of HB Woodlawn and the Stratford MS last year.  Some people were proposing making it a "sixth grade academy" that would relieve some of the capacity issues at Williamsburg and Swanson.

I know it's a county-owned site (not APS).  If I recall correctly, I heard of 2 site-specific problems that were mentioned.  First, it's adjacent to a historic site, which makes building complicated, I guess.  Second, and I wish I were making this up, there's a dog park at that site, and some school or county board member mentioned to someone in our neighborhood group that the dog park is "untouchable".  But dog park or no, I think the take away is that Madison is used by residents, many older residents, who live near there and they want it to stay the way it is.  Again, as has been mentioned on other threads about APS capacity, there is a serious generational divide on how to use these properties.[/quote]

The sixth-grade academy thing was a fringe idea supported by about 20 members of the Jamestown PTA who saw an opportunity to sequester their kids in a small school. It never really had any support -- even of the broader Jamestown PTA.[/quote]

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