Wake County parents may want to consider becoming active PTA members in the future in case it can reduce the chances of their children being reassigned.

During the last board meeting, school board member Jim Martin talked about the "frank conversations" he had with parents at a recent tour of Dillard Drive Elementary School in Raleigh. He said it highlighted to him the need to consider the impact of reassignment on PTAs when they work on future assignment plans.

“It’s pretty clear that in many of our schools we need to look at where the PTA leadership in the schools comes from because we think a lot about reassignments as they impact families, which we need to and they really do," Martin said.

The speakers at Monday's student assignment public hearing were largely unhappy with the Wake County school board.

As noted in today's article, several of the speakers, a crowd made up mostly of western Wake residents, complained about the choice plan being dropped. They weren't happy that choice plan's feeders aren't being guaranteed and that the calendar options are changing for some families.

"How can you not honor the promise made by the board before you?" said Apex parent Erika Phillips about not guaranteeing the choice plan feeders.