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they've moved out," Ms. Katz
said.
Lath Sussman, a realtor with
Cranbrook Realtors, has en-
countered the same attitude
among home buyers. And like
Ms. Katz, she believes people
have misconceptions about
Walled Lake's schools.
"I tell people to visit a
school, ask for SAT
scores, their averages,
that sort of thing. Most
of the families have a
preconceived idea of the
schools, so it's real hard
to convince them other-
wise," she said.
Yet young families
are buying new homes
in the half-million-dollar
range, which indicates
they might be planning
to stay in the district a
long while, Ms. Suss-
man noted.
But Mr. Tukel be-
lieves people who've
moved out of Timber's
Edge, for example, did
so because they could re-
alize a handsome profit
from the sale of their
homes.
"My concern isn't so
much that somebody
moves out, as long as we
have people committed
to the subdivision and the school
district," he said.
If voters approve the propos-
als, designs for the new build-
ings could get under way as
early as the following Monday.
The first school to be built would
be an elementary school, which
would be operable within a year,
said Chuck Kissaw, director of
operations for the district. The
two middle schools would be
built within two years and the
rebuilding of Central High,
along with renovations and oth-
er additions, would happen
within three years — if weath-
er conditions are optimal, he
said. ❑

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going to impact property values
and the desirability of homes in
that school system. There's no
two ways about it. We've felt
some of that already," Ms. Bish-
op-Cohen said.
Realtor Tracy Katz of Cold-
well Banker in Birmingham
said she personally knows of

Dan Tukel: "The need for new space is
overwhelming."

families that have moved out of
the district with their children
because of concerns about school
overcrowding. "On the other
hand, a lot of people will [move
into the district] if their kids are
in elementary school, hoping
that when they get to high
school the schools will have
changed.
"It's a great area. We sell a lot
of homes in the Walled Lake
school district. The majority of
Jews in the district have children
who are very young and have a
good intuition or foresight to see
that it will change. The people
moving have kids who are 12 and
13 and see it hasn't changed, so

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