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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are going to spend $ to bus kids from all over the county to learn how to become baggage handlers in a building that should be the promised Western HS?

Literally no one wants this. Where did this idea even come from? Thin air? [/quote]

It came from SB member Kyle McDaniel and friends.  I knew there would be huge pushback if they went forward with this and I was right.  NO ONE wants this and it isn't what that school should be used for.[/quote]

I think the goal of the aviation magnet program is to create budding engineers in preparation for lucrative careers at Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and the like. A wildly successful program will help the Superintendent’s public persona and professional cv. For the board members, the aviation magnet (~400 students within a larger school) may be slick a way to prevent moving the boundaries of particular school pyramids that don’t want boundaries changed at all, in order to protect home values, community cohesiveness, feeder patterns, etc. The attendance zone would be smaller for a high school with a popular aviation program plopped in. [/quote]

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