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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s actually the options that keep SSIMS open (A-D) that dont shuffle kids back and forth. It’s the new options that close SSIMS (E-G) that involve the shuffling because the changes take effect in 2027 and the school is not proposed to close until 2030. So all this shuffling is directly related to Taylor’s rushed proposal and lack of communication. This whole proposal has created a mess and it’s very confusing.[/quote]

Totally and completely false.  Options A-D radically change the SSIMS and Sligo boundaries (and probably other schools too.). Options E-G kept them close to as-is for 2027-2030 and kept Sligo very similar far beyond that.[/quote]

What I meant is options A-D don’t involve shuffling because SSIMS stays open in those scenarios. I didn’t think options A-D are even considered if SSIMS closes. But maybe they are? [/quote]

The boundary decisions will be made this spring and the SSIMS closure decision won't be made until 2027-- so they won't know if SSIMS closes when they make the boundary decisions.

Options E-G mostly keep kids at their current middle schools for 2027-2030, then move SSIMS kids mostly to Eastern.  With a few tweaks they could be adapted to work more permanently if SSIMS actually does stay open.

A-D send a lot of current SSiMS kids away and a lot of new kids to SSIMS.  Disruption number one that they get sent to a far-away, falling-apart school that their schools and neighborhoods are unfamiliar with.  That would be bad enough on its own but then it is likely that by their first year there, the announcement will be made that SSIMS is closing, teachers bail, offerings wind down, and they end up being sent back to Sligo by the end of middle school anyway (or, actually, for some of them, "Sligo at SSIMS," so assigned t a whole new school but still stuck in the old SSIMS building as a holding school.) [/quote]

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