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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t really think you understand what the advocacy is about. It’s that two larger middle schools are much worse for academic outcomes than three smaller ones (regardless of who attends). It’s that it would be terrible for downtown SS to have two holding schools in the heart of a transit-rich, pedestrian area potentially for decades. It’s that the neighborhood can’t handle all the bus traffic of bussing neighborhood kids out and kids from other areas in to use the holding schools. It’s that Taylor is lying about the lack of safety of the purple line (it will be very safe). It’s that there has been no discussion of what will happen to immersion programs.

Where in any of these arguments are parents saying they only want current SSIMS students to go to SSIMS? That’s a boundary study debate, not a whether to close SSIMS debate. [/quote]

But what’s wrong with keeping the boundaries the same until the decision is made, one way or the other? Table the boundary decision along with the closure decision. That can’t be done for HS, so decouple them.

Can you not imagine how much it would suck for a current 3-5 grader to be told their middle school will be different, only to be told months or a year later that actually that school is closing?[/quote]

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