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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would put Schultz and Reed in the same boat on this particular issue, I'm afraid.  Last night SB members praised the "bravery" of both Schultz & Reed for bringing up an "innovative" solution to the overcrowding at Haycock.  But their solutions -- for a Haycock annex, whether at Lemon Road (Reed) or the Pimmit Center (Schultz) were both last-minute, hail-mary suggestions that should have been fully vetted and thought out.  If they'd come forward with those ideas in October, perhaps they would have stood a chance.  I doubt it (because Pimmit WAS discussed at Haycock as a solution at one point), but at least then we'd have full public engagement, time for reasonable discussions and trade-offs, etc.  Instead, these last-minute suggestions just served to FREAK OUT Haycock parents who then felt the need to testify last night to make sure the Board didn't listen to these crazy ideas and put in place a still-painful-but-necessary compromise.  I would rather have heard more last night from Cooper parents, Thoreau parents, etc. but Haycock dominated the discussion because of Reed & Shultz's need to score political points and seem "independent" rather than be helpful.[/quote]

Reed and Schultz didn;t even know about this in October.  Strauss and Marty Smith were cooking it up without their knowledge.

These ideas were not vetted earlier because Janie, backed by the staff blew them off and was not willing to discuss them in an adult manner.  Why did the staff not come up with real, actual numbers or explanations as to why they wouldn't work?  You heard a lot of people make various claims about what would be needed (Janie, Kevin Sneed, etc.) but nothing was backed up by actual documentation.

Patty tried, but no one would discuss the ideas with her.[/quote]

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