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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey Nottingham, Mary K. is going to kill your school. Tune in to the board meeting Dec. 18. She’s already ruled out closing Taylor and while Mary’s proposal will mention a south ES, the huge lack of seats in the south means not even Drew will be converted to an option school. (Also, good luck taking that historic black community’s school from them and bussing their kids elsewhere, amirite?). This means only Nottingham is left and please remember Mary supported that school being swing space last year. Good luck. [/quote]

Wow, grabbing the popcorn. She's using her last meeting to propose closing Nottingham AND a cascading boundary process that will impact Jamestown, Discovery, Tuckahoe, Taylor, Glebe and Cardinal? 340 students may not sound like much but they're not going to easily get rolled into the next school over. There aren't 170 seats available at Discovery and Tuckahoe. It's going to be a cascading boundary process to balance enrollments across all those schools. That's a pretty cowardly thing to do at your last meeting. Make your successors run a controversial school closing and boundary process while you get out of town. And what are they gonna do with a closed building anyway?[/quote]

Oh Christ, not again. I’m sure the Montessori people would love to put it to use for their strange little program, although Nottingham is not really equipped to handle 700 kids worth of busses from SA. Have we even considered maybe taking a holistic look at ALL the boundaries to free up some space where it’s needed and not put kids on a 30 minute cross county bus ride? I know some kids might have to hop on a bus to cross 50 but that seems a lot more preferable than (1) winning an option lottery to (2) bus to a school 10 miles away. [/quote]

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