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Um, I think you're forgetting that there will be a senior class graduating, so that 1696 number will not include them--there won't be five grade levels there next year!...

Number would go up, but likely not as high as 2160.

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If 540 kids enter next year, and the same enter the next three years, then at some point there will be 2160 kids there.  It's 540x4.

That's extreme, to be sure.  Some kids at Deal and Hardy won't end up at Wilson.  But there are 540 kids a year from those schools who have a right to attend, not counting kids at Adams or who live in areas zoned for Wilson but not for Wilson feeders. It's going to be a problem, and cutting out Mt. Pleasant and SW isn't going to solve it.  It seems there's no will to abolish the out of boundary guaranteed feeder rule.  Hardy's probably the next most reasonable solution.[/quote]

Explain to me how cutting Hardy makes more sense than cutting EOTP and SW. Seriously. For now we can ignore geography and just talk numbers. I contend that it doesn't make sense to cut Hardy before SW and EOTP from a purely numbers stand-point. When you factor in the logistics and geography, this notion is completely, utterly idiotic. [/quote]

Not PP, but I think they were saying that even after cutting EOTP and SW, you may still need to cut Hardy.[/quote]

This is not what "they're" saying. That would, at least, make some logical sense. Although it still is incorrect, you can at least follow the reasoning.

There is no one in any position of authority who believes that Wilson is not plenty big for both Deal and Hardy. Essentially, "your" argument is that Deal becomes a 7-year school (since it will be the only feeder to Wilson). You can see how this won't happen, right.

And, the numbers say it's not needed anyway. [/quote]

Same person was trying to interpret (sucessfully or not).  Actually I have heard several folks in authority talk about that potential need.  Indeed, it seems clear now that was the rationale behind the perhaps ill-advised wording in the scenarios suggesting that Hardy feed into a new high school.  Whether it happens I think is up for debate, with lots of considerations logistical, political, etc.. The numbers, as they often are, are also uncertain.  If all students from Deal and Hardy continue to Wilson, then it is pretty clear that Wilson would not in any way have enough capacity.  And Deal is getting larger (facing its own capacity constraints).  Certainly not all of these students go to Wilson now, and whether they will in the future will depend on the state of other schools (Walls, charters, attractiveness of other options), but one certainly cannot rule out the possibility that Wilson could be very overcrowded but fine (that it will be overcapacity is a lock, it is now) and one also cannot rule out that Wilson has a real issue that restricting its feeders further would help solve.  Given that, it would seem to me that at least seriously exploring some alternative high school (in whatever form -- existing, new, different locations) is both reasonable and prudent.  That doesn't mean that you necessarily do it.[/quote]

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