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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are forgetting that when the original idea of making the Wilson site a neighborhood MS, parents FREAKED out. Noone, NOONE, wanted their kids in such an urban area going to MS. Plus, it was realized that there was no way to house 1300 kids in such a small footprint.

The new HB/Stratford school is not only going to be a co-located school (HB kids plus the Stratford program(which requires expensive accomodations/facilities)) it will also serve the community with a turf field with lights and indoor basketball court/gym.

Let's look at the real issue of overcrowding - the county approving all of these low income residences with nowhere to put all the kids that will fill them. The county/school board made a huge error a a few years' back by thinking that families don't live in apartments. [/quote]

The official reason, I recall, was concerns about busing and traffic to the Wilson site for such a big school. Also, there isn't any green space for athletic fields.

The real reason probably has to do with how it would be zoned and the demographics that would be concentrated in it. That's the proverbial "island" that gives Yorktown its racial and SES diversity. [/quote]

We used the Wilson site for our preschool while ours was being renovated, and I also used to live on that block. The traffic and busing thing is no joke. It was a mess with 200 kids - with almost no parking, lots of one-way streets, and narrow streets. It was a stupid idea to think about putting a comprehensive middle school on that site, and it was never actually in the cards. They had to do the dance of considering it in order to get the HB program out of the Stratford site. The Stratford site was the only place in this tiny county with no remaining large empty plots near where the overpopulation is where that middle school could go. It was always going to go there.

Now, are they over-fancying the new building up and underfilling it? Sure. But that’s a different discussion.[/quote]

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