Looks like we have almost all the school board members and several of the upper echelon administrators coming out to meet with us tomorrow night. We’ll calmly but forcefully explain why their conclusions are wrong, and more to the point, where the underlying analysis is flawed.
Basing the disposition of a school’s population on the age of the building when its location and the strength of the community around the students are powerful positives is just wrong-headed. The phrase “we had to burn the village to save it” seems apropos here: to remove any component from an interconnected system is to damage it. And what’s the good of that?
I don’t know if I will be at tomorrow’s meeting — depends on how my dental business goes tomorrow AM — but I hope to see this pure democratic exercise on action. The setup sounds like the FCC hearings I was involved in 2 years ago: some statements, and then public comment.