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CHARLOTTE – Emotions ran high again Wednesday night at with an overflow crowd at Harding University High School.

An estimated 1,100 people packed into Harding's gym. They were all asking Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools leaders to save their school from extinction and Smith Academy from relocation.

Monday, in a late change to the district's proposed boundary changes, Harding High School students would go to with Philip O. Berry Academy or E.E Waddell.

The kindergarten through eighth grade Smith Academy would move into Harding's building.

Many parents were left wondering why the district would want to break up what they say are two successful magnet programs.

"Please know if you vote for this proposal, it will be this community that makes sure you don't get reelected,” said one Harding student.

"This school has been around since 1935,” said Cassandra Tydings, a Smith Academy parent. “It was integral in the desegregation of Mecklenburg County."

Another community forum is scheduled next week at Smith Academy.The exact date has not been set.

The board will take a final vote on the comprehensive review plan Nov. 9.