I understand that parents immediately get up in arms about their children's schools being changed, and I understand that this can indeed be inconvenient or stressful, but they need to be realistic.
Schools should have merged the last time this came up. We simply do not have the money to not make changes and combining smaller schools is an obvious money-saver. We have so many small schools in this city that it's not as though students are suddenly going to have to go across town to get to school.