I also live in no guaranty neighborhood. I have had several
discussions with the school district about the this issue and still can't
understand why there are such districts.
It is a real problem, for lots of reasons, mostly related to our
community. In our neighborhood we have children going off in several
different directions at different times. And people with school-age
children do not move into the neighborhood because they have no idea where
their children would go to school. We bought our house before kids; I love
the neighborhood but would not have bought the house if we had kids.
The district has been working with our neighborhood to resolve the
problem, but I don't think they have arrived at any solutions. I think the
only solution is for everyone to have neighborhood schools.
Brad Colbert
Kingfield
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Wayne Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:02 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Guaranteed Community School
I live in an area without a guaranteed community school. I have selected a
school in part because a neighbor child attends as well, but unlike most of
the city we are not guaranteed any school. The alternative I understand is
more choice, but at least half or more of those are as much as a 30-40
minute bus ride which I think is too long for a kindergartener. So in the
end I really don't have any more choice than those people with guaranteed
community schools. So in an effort to level the playing field until
everyone is guaranteed a community school, I think it would be beneficial if
the schools gave parents in non-guaranteed community school areas the
guarantee of their first choice. This would allow them to select a school
where other neighbors would like to go and it could be better coordinated by
those neighborhoods, ala a sudo-community school within the magnet system.
Has anybody else incurred this problem and/or have any other ideas?
Russell W. Peterson
Ward 9
Standish
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