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So, um, remember, Blasey, I agree, and I think that's something that we should capture, something we should look more deeply into, the motivations and factors. But what I will say is I've also met people that share your perspective, that they feel that school closures are the panacea for major financial issues. But I was also interested by the many comments I saw in the post-bond survey where people in the open responses were very forthright that it's less about the school closures generating a huge influx of revenue It makes them question the value of their investment when they see school buses that only have a few kids on it. So that's something that came up several times in the survey. When they see buildings that aren't fully utilized and yet we're asking for higher investments from property cares, property cares towards revitalizing schools, it creates frustration and a lack of transparency from them because they don't think that ASD is taking care of its business by not shrinking its footprint commensurate with the students we've lost.

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