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And They Said It Wasn't About the Schools?

From the first meeting until today, the Lakeside Alliance and its various named groups along with the Tucker 2015 and its various named groups have refused to talk about their plans for the school system.  In fact, they both repeatedly have stated that their fight for a city "has nothing to do with the schools."  Well, now it does.  Funny, now they aren't saying anything. 
From WABE Atlanta:

Druid Hills Annexation: Do Schools Stay or Go?


By ELLY YU
Parents raised concerns at the Druid Hills High School PTSA meeting about a proposal to annex the school from DeKalb County into Atlanta Public Schools.
Parents raised concerns at the Druid Hills High School PTSA meeting about a proposal to annex the school from DeKalb County into Atlanta Public Schools.
Credit Elly Yu / WABE
If a neighborhood gets annexed into another city, do schools go with it? 
That was the question on many minds at the Druid Hills High PTSA meeting Thursday night. A crowd of about 300 hundred people met about a proposal to move the school out of DeKalb County Schools into the Atlanta Public Schools system, but parents raised concerns about what that could mean for students. 

(...)  parent Steve Perkins opposes annexation and says he doesn't want the district to split up.
"I would rather work to fix the problems with the school board and the county commission than to blow the whole county up and not have a chance to fix it down the road," Perkins said.
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