In a message dated 11/20/2007 5:41:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The decision regarding RBR had minimal impact on other school districts. Not so minimal if you worked, as I did, at one of the schools which lost students to RBR during the 1990's declining enrollment period. The additional loss of students who wanted an enriched arts program had a ripple effect across the curriculum: budgets, staffing, loss of other elective programs, RIFs, et al. It may not have been a racial imbalance problem, but it wasn't minimal. Unintended consequences: Can't blame parents who wanted full arts instruction, or RBR for taking the lead, going against the grain by upgrading their program rather than cutting it. In the worst decision ever made by AP, the Board of Ed turned OT down. So they built their own high school. That could be. But I suspect that OT would have eventually built their own school anyway. **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)
