While reassignment often isn't fun for students, some parents may bite the bullet and try to move their kids into a different school a year early.
School administrators are anticipating parents will ask for transfers based on future school reassignments. You can call it a byproduct of using a three-year assignment plan.
For instance, parents whose kids are slated to be reassigned to a school in 2010 may file a transfer request to attend that school in 2009.
You can imagine that scenario happening a lot with all the high schools moved slated for the 2010-11 school year.
Parents may feel it doesn't make sense for a child to start high school this fall and then have to readjust to a new environment the following fall. The way to get around it is to go to that other school now and only have to make one adjustment.
The drawback to requesting a transfer is that it means you'd have to provide your own transportation until your node is officially moved to that school.
It's no guarantee that these requests will be approved.
School administrators say they "will give special consideration to requests for transfers that are made in anticipation of a new assignment in a future year."
But administrators say they have to see if the requested school has space for additional students prior to the year in which assignment changes are scheduled to occur.
"if space is not a problem, staff will normally approve such requests," according to the reassignment plan.
Comments
This is the million dollar
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 13:28 — rr77rr99This is the million dollar question... although I thought that you can by pass the "MYR traditional option opt out" by going ahead and filing for a "transfer" to another school. If that "transfer" (in Feb is it?) is granted, then your child will not have to be returned to their MYR base school should the courts rule that parents must comply with the MYR base school placement.
Maybe someone who is in the know can clarify.
Either way... it still remains one big mess and the district needs to be broken up and parents need to be able to CHOOSE not APPLY for schools that they want their children seated in!
Until this happens... don't vote for any more bogus bond money that just furthers this agenda to move kids all around like ping pong balls.
Betting
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 23:53 — SDR256My bet is that, if the WakeCARES suit ends against parental choice, all schools will be converted to year round. You can run but you cannot hide.
Do you know the math on that
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 15:58 — ncdad1Do you know the math on that ... if every school was MYR how would the capacity of seats compare to the capacity of kids? Would there be a surplus? Would all the trailers go away and the buidling stop?
For sure that's a no
Sat, 01/03/2009 - 10:15 — rr77rr99For sure that's a no brainer bet!
All the schools, except for the ITB Magnets will go year round if WCPSS gets their way, or people don't wake up and vote this band (ER) out of office.
Is it not obvious the master plan has been all along to make as many YR schools as possible? With MYR schools they can hide more kids with lower test scores. Spread them out more, bring in more higher scoring kids into the populations to even out all the numbers and make WCPSS "look on paper" even more successful.
I bet the F&R thing is down on the list, the first thing they probably look at is the child's test scores. If they are high performers in a low performing school, they will probably deny the transfer and visa versa. It's about the numbers. Nothing else. Not the total well being of the kids, or God forbid, the families.
The only consieration is making themselves look good. Period.
will opting out of MYR still
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 13:06 — AngelaWwill opting out of MYR still be available, or treated as a transfer? ie. Leesville ES to Hilburn (the newest listing as Traditional)??
It's going to depend on the
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 13:37 — KeungHui (author)It's going to depend on the state Supreme Court. If the court sides with Wake CARES or doesn't issue a ruling by late April, the school system will likely issue the year-round consent forms for 2009-10. It would be like how consent was handled for this school year.
If you're worried about not getting the consent form, you probably should cover yourself and apply in February for one of the traditional-calendar seats. Those seats aren't guranteed, as would be the case if you declined to give consent. But relatively few people have filed in February the past two years so they've been able to honor all those requests.