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Look, I know that. I'm just trying to figure out how it happened. [/quote]

To answer your question, PP:  Yes (from a Henry parent).  Yes, yes, now we know that we were dumb, naive, should have got in a "better" writing.  [/quote]

I mean, I don't think you were dumb or naive, except perhaps to think that a county that has to provide schools for everyone would commit to keeping a certain school zone the same no matter what. [/quote]

Why not?  APS bends over backwards for some groups, and lies through their teeth to others.  The Henry community FOUGHT moving in the first working group.  Henry never wanted to move.  You PPs who say Henry parents just wanted a richer, nicer school are disgusting.  The first working group was disbanded because it wouldn't cave to APS's demands to move Henry.  And then APS cherry-picked members for a second working group (SAWG).   Yes, I know SAWG didn't vote on boundaries--that wasn't its job.  But APS sold the move as a domino pattern:  Henry moves to Fleet, Montessori moves to Henry, Drew becomes neighborhood (because that was the right thing to do), and HB gets rezoned to Drew and some of Oakridge gets zoned to Drew, and Oakridge is no longer bursting at the seams.  Sounds great, right? Check the notes--this is exactly what Chadwick said in 2016.  Then, last spring/summer, the new proposed boundaries come out and Henry is trying to figure out what happened.  It's naivety, pure and simple. [/quote]

I don't think Henry wanted to move or wanted a nicer school per se. But you did demand that any school built in your CA be a neighborhood school before you would support building at TJ. So they had to have a second working group to fight off the crazy parks loons who want nothing new built anywhere or EVAR, and to get your neighborhood on board by promising it would be a neighborhood school. Since there was already a school in your CA, one had to be an option and AMAC saw their opportunity. Frankly, it's better than them tearing down a school building when we desperately need seats (which I believe they did consider), but it does leave the new Drew in a less than ideal position.

Anyway, I do think you misunderstood that the new school was "yours," meaning every single home within the 2016 boundary was promised to move into the new school. That was never what was said or what they meant. They meant Henry staff and the majority of the students would move to the new location. I haven't had the time to do the math yet, but this proposal may actually be the best they can do with what tools they have, which truly sucks and is evidence of a completely effed up housing policy. But you're really not winning hearts and minds with the t-shirts and the filling out of questionnaires with identical answers. Just cool your jets, and maybe we will come to this conclusion rather than suspecting you guys of stacking the deck against Drew. [/quote]

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