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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is correct that what SSIMS supporters have posted is not "misinformation."

But also, it's certainly not a "given" that SSIMS boundaries will change if it stays open.[/quote]

SSIMS boundaries change dramatically if A-D are chosen-- about half the kids leave and are replaced with new kids from other schools.

If E-G are chosen, SSIMS kids stay together, only splitting if SSIMS actually closes.  You can't see it on the maps, but the effects tables make it clear that the pre-SSIMS closure/non-SSIMS closure options keep current SSIMS kids at SSIMS.[/quote]

You are yet again missing the point. [b]Keeping SSIMS kids together is not the goal. Keeping SSIMS open is the goal.[/b] I'm not sure how to put it more plainly. [/quote]

This. Thank you. [/quote]

Weird.  It's really important to you to keep it open but you don't care if your kids go there or not?  [/quote]

People in the neighborhood obviously want their kids to go there.  But for people who could geographically go elsewhere and have it make sense, why is this weird?  Many people do not want to lose a middle school for the region and have their kids go to a larger school.[/quote]

+1.  If SSIMS were to close our MS would get much bigger, which I don't think is good.  And I think it's bad for urban planning in general to lose schools in walkable, urban areas.

But there's a lot going on and obviously not everyone has the same priority.  There are other parents in our ES where avoiding split ariculation from ES to MS is the #1 goal, even if that means those options are the ones that assume SSIMS closes.[/quote]

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