{"id":5677,"date":"2015-05-20T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2015-05-20T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:05:56","slug":"middle-school-admission-priorities-escalate-tensions-between-stapleton-and-park-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5677","title":{"rendered":"Middle School Admission Priorities Escalate Tensions Between Stapleton and Park Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"middle-school-wars\"<\/a>Amid concern that tensions over McAuliffe International School admission priorities could escalate into a wider conflict, Park Hill community leaders insisted Monday that their neighborhood\u2019s uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes only. \u201cWe are not building a nuclear bomb,\u201d said Jon Mason, president of the Greater Park Hill Community Association. \u201cWe just want an independent power source in case the Xcel grid goes down for some reason. Like, say, if it gets overloaded with \u2018smug\u2019 from all the solar panels in Stapleton.\u201d Experts fear, however, that Park Hill\u2019s nuclear ambitions could trigger an arms race, with Stapleton seeking to build a bomb next, followed perhaps by Lowry, Montclair and Hale. Foreign relations expert Dr. Kyle Trask says he has seen this pattern before. \u201cThis is why globally have the mess we have,\u201d says Trask. \u201cIndia gets nukes, then Pakistan gets them, and before that it was the Soviet Union and China. The pattern is just on a smaller scale, and in this case, neighboring communities.\u201d\n\nRecent conversations on Nextdoor have fueled worries about Park Hill\u2019s possible ulterior motives. For instance, Park Hill resident Janet Kamienski, whose fifth-grader was unable to get into McAuliffe despite living two blocks away from the school, posted over the weekend that \u201cthose Stapleton schmucks won\u2019t feel so superior when we have nuclear missiles pointed at their precious airport tower<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 The\u00a0Greater Park Hill News<\/i> also raised eyebrows with its most recent issue, which featured an “open letter to Stapleton” that described Stapleton residents as “savages” and “Smiley-stealing devils” and referenced the “drums of war.”<\/a>\nRumors have also been circulating about Park Hill residents allegedly sending \u201cmeasles blankets<\/a>\u201d to Stapleton families with unvaccinated fourth- and fifth-graders, but those claims have thus far proven impossible to confirm.\nOne thing is clear, however: Stapleton\u2019s once squabbling neighborhoods, who not long ago were on the brink of civil war<\/a> over elementary school preferences, have united decisively against the common enemy on the other side of Quebec Street.\n\u201cThose Park Hill ingrates have got a lot of nerve,\u201d said Stapleton resident Chris McFarlane, who has a seventh-grade daughter at McAuliffe and a fifth-grade son set to join her in the fall. \u201cThey were all sending their kids to private schools, instead of Smiley, until DPS opened the boundary and moved Stapleton\u2019s best middle school onto Smiley’s campus. Now they want to kick the Stapleton kids out, because suddenly they care about the sanctity of \u2018neighborhood schools.\u2019 Are you freakin\u2019 kidding me?\u201d\nJill Crowley, whose fifth-grader received her first choice of McAuliffe for next school year, agreed. \u201cWithin the space of nine months, they\u2019ve gone from stealing our school to claiming that we stole their school,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s insane. And now with this nuclear program \u2013 just you watch. They\u2019ll nuke Stapleton and then blame us when the fallout crosses Quebec.\u201d\nAt press time, Forest City could not be reached for comment on reports that it is building a secret, nuke-proof underground bunker<\/a> below the future King Soopers parking lot in Eastbridge.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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