response 51 of 54:

Jun 17 15:13 UTC 2002

Re #50:  I've read plenty of horror stories about people's impressions
of "modern" school buildings.  Such as, no windows and bad lighting (it's
known that lighting has a serious influence on ability to read, work and
concentrate, and natural light is best), really bad acoustics such that
teachers cannot be heard, and so on and so forth.  How anyone could
ever expect to get an education in such an environment is a question I
would prefer to relegate to the category of historical curiosities.

response 53 of 54:

Jun 21 06:44 UTC 2002

It's around 2,600, I think. . . .  Ah, yes, here it is; page 75 of the
"User Friendly 01/02 Budget": Fall 2001 Enrollment: 2,598.  Huron was
2,001 at that time.

Up above, I said the school district was 121 square miles, and cmcgee (I
think it was) corrected to 125; she was right.  Once upon a time, I tried
to guesstimate the distance across the District: "The square root of 125
is closer to eleven than twelve, so the distance is roughly eleven miles"
(yeah, I know; Pythagoras would disagree; it's the square root of 242).
So when I entered my response above, I squared eleven instead of remembering
the actual figure.  I do the same thing with ages, but at least my memory
of birtdates is accurate.

Why mention this now?  Because I got a map of Washtenaw County, showing
school district boundaries, from Meijer's a day or two ago (WISD said
they no longer have them because Meijer's does, so off I went).  I missed
Salem Township in my list of townships at least partially in the Ann Arbor
School District in that response.  I also missed South Lyons and Willow
Run school districts in the list of those adjoining the Ann Arbor schools.

I also asked Terri Williams, the school district elections clerk, for
the pollbook numbers:  11,127 ballots cast, 114,131 voters registered,
9.74% turnout.