Friday, March 13, 2009
Parents protest school rezoning.
http://www.tribune-georgian.com/articles/2009/03/13/news/top_stories/1topstory3.13.txt
I pass by MLCE every weekday morning about 7:20 Am. The ladies with their placards and brochures were back out there again this morning.
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I agree with those parents. I would like for my child to attend the school closest to my house. They must need to reorganize to fill the mini college campus they call St. Marys Elementary.
If you will read the T&G article, they explain why they are doing it. I'm just surpized that they had the cajones to defy the PC police and state the actual reason - which I intuited correctly as soon as I heard about it.
When I moved into Sugarmill Plantation in 1988 the elementary school for our neighborhood was Crooked River at that time. Back then, Mary Lee Clark was a middle school. We bought in Sugarmill at that time because our children were in middle school and they could walk to school...or ride their bikes. I agree...the children closest to a school should attend that school...those that ride buses anyway should be shifted if need be. Why put more children at risk in a school bus than need be?
Some members of the HOA for Sugarmill met last night. These parents are pissed. One couple was there that lives about 6 houses away from you Jay. They were very vocal. Its amazing to see how pissed off parents are about children not being allowed to attend Mary Lee Clark and instead be transported to Crooked River.
Somehow I didn't realize Sugarmill, Crooked River, Mary Lee Clark and St. Marys elementary are all in St. Marys. All of the parents felt in spite of what the paper said they were being shuffled around because the enrollment is not where it needs to be for St. Marys elementary. Someone even stated that a teacher at St. Marys elementary told them they need more students to attend St. Marys elementary once it opens.
They are getting ready to break ground for the new elementary school that will be located behind Kmart. This school will be just as big as the new St. Marys elementary.
Well, I can certainly sympathize with them, but it seems inevitsable that there will have to be a period reshuffling as populations of different sections of town flutuate. The land is being cleared right now for another subdivison between MLCE and the railroad tracks. Motreover, my subdivision is not fully built out yet. If reshuffles are inevitable, then clearly, new dividing lines have to be somewhere. Take down at Camden Middle School.Kids on the east side of Gross Road who could fire a bBB gun from their window and hit Camden Middle have to go to St. Marys Middle School. Incidentally, when the 3rd middle school is built, they will go just across the road to Camden Middle.
You have a similar situation with voting. When I lived at Park Place, I voted at MLCE. Now, I literally have to drive past MLCE to go all the way downtown to the old union hall to vote, when I could literally ride my power wheelchair from my house to MLCE in about 10 minutes.
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