No one disputes that more should be done to help the low-performing students at Enloe High School but the problem seems to be finding the right solution.

As noted in today's article, the rejection of the block schedule has left Enloe's leadership looking for alternatives. The challenge is finding something that will help the low-performing students without causing too many changes that would draw complaints from magnet students and their parents.

And with one current Enloe parent and two former Enloe parents now elected as school board members, what else is in store for the magnet school? Enloe has the dubious distinction of having the lowest passing rates on state tests among Wake's high schools for black and low-income students.

While much of the attention was focused on the combative Wake County school board elections, an equally hot fight was going on at Enloe High School over whether to move to a block schedule.

An Enloe faculty group had proposed switching to a block schedule as a way to help the low-performing students. But a vocal group of Enloe parents, students and teachers opposed the switch.

Last month, 65 percent of the faculty that voted rejected making the switch to the block so the issue appears to be dead for the 2012-13 school year. But it generated a lot of controversy along the way at the magnet school.

SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST FOR LINK TO PDF OF PRESENTATION THAT STAFF MADE TO PARENTS