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If a decision were made to double the size of HB, WHERE WOULD THE SCHOOL GO?

Again, this is not about HB. It is about a lack of will to acquire and designate space for a 4th high school.

When you argue that HB needs to take more students, what you are saying is that we need a 4th comprehensive high school. Dramatically increasing the size of HB will effectively kill that program.

But now, instead of fighting one fight (4th high school!), you are fighting two (4th high school! and Save HB!). By doing this you needlessly burn political capital and you make enemies among people who could have been allies. School board members get lobbied hard from both sides. It looks like constituents disagree wildly, so the SB has trouble figuring out where consensus lies.

Forget about HB. Focus on the end game. Getting rid of HB doesn't get you what we need. We could kill HB tomorrow, and we still don't have what we need.[/quote]

The problem people who aren't willing to accept facts, and those people are on the SB and throughout the community. We need leadership that will say "This is the number of seats we need and this it the money and space we have for them." That leads to, among other choices, building the largest possible building on the Wilson site. If putting something bigger on the ATS site means ATS would rather give up than expand (regardless of whether it "can't" or "won't"), then ATS is gone.

This is not about offing HB out of spite. This is just being practical. HB says it can't get bigger, but we need a bigger school on that space. [/quote]

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