In his response to the question on Skyline High, Glenn Nelson implies that class sizes at Huron and Pioneer have been reduced following the opening of (and presumably because of) Skyline. But that’s not quite right. Based on Ann Arbor News reports and my personal experience, the opening of Skyline has not reduced the size of classes at Huron or Pioneer.

Then again, the construction of Skyline was not about class size. It was about the the over-population of Huron and Pioneer in general. And when former Superintendent George Fornero originally presented the Skyline plan, he was quite clear that Skyline would help solve school-wide crowding but not crowded classes. Large class sizes are a separate issue, and based in no small part on the need for Ann Arbor Public Schools to do as much as possible within a budget limited by the after-effects of Proposal A and the diminished tax base of an economic downturn .

But I don’t disagree with the spirit of Nelson’s comment: the bond that funded Skyline’s construction has brought a great deal of positive change to the district.