Two? Just two?

APS redistricting plan: a tale of two schools | 11alive.com
Parents at Coan Middle School were all smiles on Sunday after Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis removed their school from his final school closing list.
..."I think district leaders are making a mistake," said Kevin Lynch, president of the Peoplestown Association and the father of a two-year-old girl. "We're not pleased about it."
Parents in Peoplestown are new to this fight.
Their neighborhood elementary school, D.H. Stanton, was added to the final closing list on Saturday night without any warning.

Only a reporter who hasn't been following the ongoing Battle of APS Redistricting could conclude that it comes down to "a tale of two schools", making it sound like it's a choice between closing a middle school and an elementary school.

And, about the "without any warning" scare: this is a warning, not a final decision. This is only the list that, barring new information and subsequent changes, the superintendent will present to the board. We're still a long way from a "final closing list." There are still a couple of weeks and a full battery of neighborhood meetings before the superintendent reports to the board, and there's no guarantee that the board will do what the superintendent proposes. (Although, admittedly, odds are they will.)

But the reporter who really thinks this is a "tale of two schools" is invited to talk to the staff and parents of the other twelve schools what were on the original list of 13 recommended to close (Coan was on that list, now apparently "saved"), plus Towns Elementary (which wasn't on that list, but is now recommended to close).

I say "staff and parents" without including "students" purposefully, since some students can be counted on to plead with puppy-dog eyes that "the only school we've ever known" remain open, and others would cheerfully dance on the rubble of a school, with absolutely no care for whether the grown-ups thought it was a Good School, or how much money it cost to keep open.

But I may be expecting too much of staff and parents to hope they'll think of the system's best interests. Certainly the system has not historically shown much interest in thinking of theirs.