Reply to Amendments to Policy 8130 re Grandfathering of Current Students

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's great, sounds like they are being responsive to parents.[/quote]

A small percentage of parents, that is. Congratulations for being in that small percentage.[/quote]
A small percentage wants grandfathering for high school students? I get that you don’t want changes, ever, but whether there are boundary adjustments with this review or not, leaving the policy for grandfathering vague was a mistake. This amendment will codify grandfathering high school students, which has nearly always been granted in previous boundary adjustments anyway. [/quote]

I think the issue is less whether they agree to grandfather, and more whether they decide not to provide transportation.  If they don't provide transportation, then it's up to families to arrange transportation for their kids, and that is a regressive policy that favors families where there's a stay-at-home parent who can provide transportation or a kid has their own wheels.

They were so damn keen to do a county-wide redistricting "that hadn't been done in 40 years."  But they didn't do their research.  Had they done so, they would have learned that, in those prior county-wide redistrictings, the School Board agreed [i]in advance[/i] that students in grades 10-12 would be grandfathered, with transportation provided.  That, in turn, served as a constraint on the volume of boundary changes.

These folks didn't educate themselves, so they didn't commit to grandfathering in advance, either with or without transportation.  Now they seem poised, in anticipation of the pushback that otherwise would have occurred, to commit to grandfathering, but they are still unwilling to commit to providing transportation.  This is what happens when you elect unqualified people who don't understand what they are taking on.  [/quote]

Most high schoolers drive, have friends who drive, or are old enough to safely bike or walk the 2 miles to their neighborhood school.[/quote]

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