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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, I think it's entirely fair for people to have mixed feelings and strong emotions about all of this.

I know people don't believe this, but the Henry community decided not to fight the move to Fleet due in large part to APS' promise that it would keep the Henry boundaries. Everyone knew by giving up its central location the south of the Pike sections were more likely to get cut off, and no one wanted that to happen. The assumption was that the people wanting to get into the new school would be the people N of 50 and the northern part of Alcova Heights, both assumed to be richer, whiter neighborhoods.

Henry was a Title 1 school not too long ago. It's a wonderful diverse community. People wanted to keep that. That's what the keep Henry together stuff is about.

You can hate on it all you want, but that's the truth. No one said, "Let's screw over Drew." That was never the intention.

Personally, I was dismayed to see the proposal for Drew. But I also feel badly for the Henry families that might get bumped when it moves to Fleet, because they love their school, and want to stay there. And I'm tired of people assuming all the Henry families who feel this way are racist.[/quote]

Going or not going to Fleet wasn’t a choice the Henry community ultimately got to decide for themselves, that was a school board determination. And Henry wasn’t promised they would all stay together, the school board couldn’t have promised that because boundaries. I know the SAWG did promote the idea that Henry could/should/would stay together, but they don’t speak for the board.[/quote]

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