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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since you've been here since 2000, I assume you remember the Yorktown controversy?[/quote]

I believe that you are vastly overstating the "controversy". I am not sure why you are so intent on defending the school board. But want to do so, you are going to need more than your opinion as none of your "facts and stuff" have held up very well so far.[/quote]

You haven't posted anything inconsistent with what I said. My whole point on the bond thing was that rather than upset voters by pushing for more aggressive growth (which even they theselves couldn't be sure they needed at that point, given the trends), the school board did smaller projects that required smaller bonds that were more likely to be acceptable to voters. That voters approved those bonds is fully consistent with that account.

As for the Yorktown, here are just a few links to articles and letters during that time around the debate, there are many more out there as well:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/group-backs-33-million-school-bond-package?_amp=true
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001287.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060700702.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102500469.html

This article is from 2004, but it details how overenrollment at the high school level was projected to be resolved by the high school expansions; if you look at what actually happened later, it didnt resolve overenrollment at all because the actual growth rate was much higher than anticipated: http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2004/may/11/school-construction-to-cost-229-million/[/quote]

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