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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A massive redistricting is definitely needed.  My kid drives by a middle school on the way to his middle school.  And the kids at that middle school drive by his middle school.  Makes no sense.   [/quote]

Redistricting can't just be about going to the closest neighborhood school.  If we do that, it will result in more resegregation.   There has to be busing and magnets and the various ways we get the haves to school with the have-nots and give both good opportunities.[/quote]

I really just want my kids to go to the school closest to us.  I have no desire to put them on a bus for an extended trip across the county 2x per day.  Further, I want my involvement in the school to be easy and I want to be a part of my community.  I'd like to see my neighbor at school, the pool, the local library, the grocery store.  If I need to run over to school for something, it should be a quick drive, not 20-30 min involving major roads.

For the magnets, I'd want to see an all or nothing proposition.  Put a reasonably distanced magnet program in each cluster.  The idea that there are 2 MS magnets is nuts.  Why should kids have to sit on a bus for 39-45 min to get to school?    And the 30-45 min goes both ways---western county kids who would like to attend the TP magnet have to sit in a bus.  If you implement SES bussing, you're putting the TP MS kid on a bus to a western school for 39-45 min.  That's not fair to any child.[/quote]

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