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
R U S S E L L P E T E R S O N D E S I G N
"You can only fly if you stretch your wings."
Russell W. Peterson, RA, CID
Founder
3857 23rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-724-2331
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