"We aren't trying to do anything on the sly,"

APS' Brad Winter said. "We thought we had community input. I apologize if that didn't happen."

"Many Chaparral Elementary School parents had never heard of School On Wheels until they found out Tuesday that a satellite location of the alternative high school was placed on the elementary school campus." according to the Journal article.

The issue is not so much whether or not high school drop outs should be placed in close proximity to elementary school students; as it is, the parents of the elementary students should have been part of the decision making process.

"The satellite ended up at St. Pius seven years ago when the district had tried to locate it at Chaparral. APS met with strong opposition from parents then as well." (emphasis added)

How exactly, does one "think" they had community input?

When APS apologized for not involving parents in the Chinese fire drill for principals, wasn't there some commitment made to rededicate themselves to appropriately involving parents in future decisions?

...screw up, apologize; screw up again in exactly the same way, apologize again;

and so on, ad nauseam.