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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, it will be fine. If the current crop of outraged parents leave, H-A will attract many very engaged new families (OOB and IB) eager to partake of an upgraded, appealing school environment.[/quote]

So, after two years, H-A will attract new IB families that currently opt not to send their kids to H-A? These families will be attracted to the school because it will now posses a horrendously ugly new building and a mutant gym in a space that is now occupied by a very well-utilized kickball court, jungle gym, swings, and a basketball court? Surely, you can't be serious.

And this, of course, assumes that the quality of education at H-A holds throughout the swing. Given what the cross-town swings will likely do to enrollment, parental engagement, commute times, and the other myriad factors that factor into how well schools perform, that's a herculean assumption.

[quote=Anonymous]You may find your other options not much more attractive than two years of a not unreasonable commute for a fantastic neighborhood school thereafter. You might even grow fond of Meyer in the meantime. [/quote]

Is this DME Niles that I'm talking to? H-A will be a "fantastic neighborhood school thereafter" because - and I realize I'm not repeating myself - it will thereafter possess a horrendously ugly new building and a mutant gym in a space that is now occupied by a well-utilized kickball court, jungle gym, swings, and a basketball court? Surely, you can't be serious.[/quote]
Dude, you're writing is insufferably precious. [/quote]

Actually, I think the "precious" writer makes an excellent point.  This is the first poster who has raised the issue of the final result.   In other words:  why swing?   As a former Hyde-Addison parent, I've looked at the drawings, and it does seem to be that there will not be much of a schoolyard once this project 
is complete.  As it is, the outdoor space is not expansive, but it is well used, and outdoor space is important for young children.  Seems the new building will be a bulky insertion between the two existing buildings, but I cannot get a sense of the massing.

I might be tempted to join the chorus of "You'll get through, it's only two years" if I thought children would be swinging back from Meyer into an improved 
space.  But I am not sure in any event that it makes sense to reduce already limited outdoor space for "a horrendously ugly new building and a mutant gym".
But I am a former parent of Hyde-Addison, a school I knew well and still love.  I guess current parents need to step back,  look at the plans, and decide what's best.  Lots to consider.[/quote]

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