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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I’ve been following relatively closely but am confused by one thing. When the SB announced the hybrid solution — which I agree 100% was/is stupid, poorly thought out, and poorly articulated, and that Kenmore was/is the right choice for a 4th comprehensive HS — I read it entirely as choice seats for the CC site. I recall the presentation saying something about needing to settle on the educational focus, or whatever the lingo, for those seats. Fast forward 9 months or so, the neighborhoods in question are now rejecting inferior neighborhood seats (fair) *but also* rejecting additional choice seats. So how are we to read this as anything other than the neighborhoods making a grab for their own 4th comprehensive HS (which was basically already rejected as an option by the SB last year) and then throwing a hissy fit when they’re told that isn’t going to happen? Am I misremembering how we got here? Again, I completely and totally agree that this sucks and is stupid, but I don’t see how these neighborhoods truly expected some other outcome. Arl Heights poster and others in the know, what’s the answer?

And please, I’m on the 22204 list serve and am by now familiar with the talking points. Yes, it’s unfair to have inferior neighborhood seats. Yes, no other site has so many choice seats. I’m trying to figure out if I’m really missing information, or if the advocates have just wholly bought into their own spin. [/quote]

This is exactly how I remember it, too. All along they have said they can't put the equivalent amenities on the site, which was why they said the seats were TBD, focus decided later. Frankly, that is asinine. Who just plops a school down at a site and then decides what the focus should be after the fact? Should t the site itself dictate what the optimal focus would be? But, I digress.

The neighborhood kept on with the drum beat of "neighborhood seats," so what staff and the SB heard was, "yes, we understand the site and financial limitations and we accept whatever you put here, as long as they are neighborhood seats." Y'all were misled, but not by APS. They also didn't promise you that the Henry boundary would not change when the school moved to a new physical location. Again, you're hearing what you want to hear and not hearing what they are actually saying. [/quote]

Arl Heights poster again.  The "all along they have said they can't put the equivalent amenities" is NOT true.  The architects showed us 6 to 8 story buildings with a gymnasium, auditorium, pool--everything--within the footprint of the building.  All that was left was outside space.  The 6 to 8 story building would take up about 4 acres, leaving 8 acres for open space.  This is what we were told, and in hindsight, with the intent to get community buy-in.

Fast forward to today.  Now we are told: can't move Henry, can't move Community High School, can't move any CTE programs, can't move the daycare.  Okay, then.  Why they thought with so many competing interests on that small piece of land that they could do anything with it is beyond me.  BTW, this is all stuff we learned along the process.

And again, we NEVER said we accept whatever you put here.  NEVER.  Please stop spreading that lie.

I'll leave your Henry boundary stuff for another post. [/quote]

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