Come on, BBD, while you are right that APS pounds its chest regarding Firestone on the academic side and for aethetics by dumping $20-25 million more into it than any other school in Akron, Buchtel is the pampered little child as far as APS is concerned. APS was supposed to rebuild Garfield first, then when East was going to close, the APS caved, like they always do, to the few babies over there and they rebuilt it as one of the first, pushing Garfield to the last and combining it with Kenmore, and then giving the new school an 85-yard football field!!! Yep!! They cannot even have a JV game at their school. It is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen done by the APS. They said they couldn't make it work with the size of the building they were building. I just saw that they added 10,000 additional square feet to Firestone-Litchfield once it was already being built to accommodate additional musical rooms, but they said they have to build the new school at Garfield for 1,400 students.......my question is where in the living HE11 are they going to get the other 600 kids?!?!? The current K-G only has about 850 kids total. DO they think people are going to move into Firestone Park knowing that Firestone Park Elementary is going to close shortly because they never did anything to renovate or rebuild it? They already closed Roswel Kent and sent those kids to Innis. They are so stinking stupid and living in an alternate reality. Yes, Buchtel is definitely a favorite of the administration downtown. THey let KingRicky do whatever he wants, get beat up on the sideline and not a word or a thing done about it. The APS wants Buchtel and Firestone and Ellet to succeed, the rest are on their own.