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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We bought a house with an impressive lot and gorgeous kitchen. We were very enthusiastic about having a school rated 10 by greatschools.com. But the county decided to close this excellent school. Now our kids attend a not so great school full of mediocre people working for the check.
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Clifton?[/quote]

You're right[/quote]

Why did the school get closed?[/quote]

Too small a site and too expensive to renovate/rebuild for the number of students that would have been served.  It is still a very sore spot in Clifton, several years later. [/quote]
Instead of renovating park and library buildings FC should have invested in this school.
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It is disgusting how they put politics above excellent education.

It wasn't that it was too expensive to renovate.  There was some poltical horse-trading involved and Clifton ES lost, which didn't make sense, objectively speaking.  I'm not one of the families affected, but I can understand why they're stll mad.  It was an old community school, important to the neighborhood, and was not closed for the usual reasons community schools are closed (declining student population).  It's been years, but I wonder if it would be feasible to reopen the school.[/quote][/quote]

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