It's time for the school board to start on high school reassignments.
Starting at 1 p.m. today in the board conference room at Wake Forest Road, the board will look at assignments hat could result in more than 8,000 high school students being moved over the next three years.
Among the issues the board will deal with are are whether to move the MacGregor Downs students to Athens Drive High and the Bedford students to Heritage High. They'll also go through whether they're taking too many students out of Millbrook High.
Board members think they might have reduced some of the complaints with the changes they agreed to make in the grandfathering policy.
Wake has historically not allowed rising sophomores to grandfather out of assignments to newly opening high schools. But under the new grandfathering rules, those kids will get transfers to avoid going to Heritage or H6 if they've got older siblings who will be rising juniors or seniors in 2010.
Wake doesn't open new high schools with 11th- and 12th-grades. Asst. Supt. Chuck Dulaney said what they'll do is look at transfer requests that year from rising sophomores who are trying to get out of Heritage of H6 to see if they've got any older siblings.
Click here for a list of the changes tentatively approved by the board during last week's work sessions. It's not 100 percent complete because it doesn't include the Fox Road Elementary changes.
While there's been no formal vote on the staff changes proposed on Thursday, the ones for elementary and middle schools have been signed off on by the board.
The changes were put on Wake's web site to serve as the public notice for Wednesday's hearing.
Comments
ROFL!!!!
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 20:23 — local23too funny and sadly very accurate!!
sorry..
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 20:25 — local23was replying to dadof3
When does the madness......
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 12:08 — WuptdoWhen will the madness end in Wake County?
Folks -- though still a little while away, you all need to be thinking about replacements for the current batch of losers on the School Board. It is time for a children/parent friendly school board, not one driven on a agenda of failure or guilt.
There is a new group
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 07:22 — Big_PictureThere is a new group consisting of involved parent groups from all over the county. They are working to make education work in Wake County, and looking for real people to fill the 4 spots instead of politicians. Get involved.
When the growth ends
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 12:36 — user1234When will the madness end in Wake County? ... when the growth ends ..... the building will end and ..... the reassignments to new schools will end.
Anyone new will have the same problems looking for seats for new kids, aquiring land, raising money, hiring teachers, etc.
This will never end until we control and plan growth in the county.
Job description:
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 12:31 — supportwcpssJob description:
I bet a lot of people are excited about that potential job.
Why don't YOU
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 15:53 — g88ky07run for Patti's seat! Like I said, you could fill it and even wear her same clothes!
Heck, we could just quote your comments from this blog and if the average Joe didn't see faces, they'd think it's the same dingbat at the helm!
Not just MacGregor kids
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:32 — btwalshJust a polite reminder, 4 neighborhoods and 23 students are affected by reassigning nodes 383.3 and 384.4: Churchill Downs, Royal Ridge, MacGregor Downs and Woods of Kildaire.
The historical enrollment node data released by Mr. Dulaney to all BoE members on 1/9/09 proves our enrollment has declined 19%, elementary enrollment has dropped 40%.
Moving 23 students from Apex to Athens does not support Growth Managment's long term objectives:
1. When H7 opens, our students/families will be moved back to Apex High because we're only 2.2 miles away
2. Apex has 290 open seats with our students already on campus.
3. Our declining enrollment will open 8 seats at Apex in 3 years, 47 seats in 6 years
4. Athens LI% would change less than .25% in 2009.
Mr. Hui, please post the results as soon as the decision is made as many parents from these neighborhoods are following your blog, myself included.
Thank you.
Yes
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 15:54 — g88ky07the elites win, while 24,000+ STILL get their kids removed from them!
Good luck. Our information
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 11:35 — JanisTangoGood luck. Our information for our nodes was about the same and they shot us down without much discussion. They just don't care is my assessment.
I hope they are going in
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 07:43 — CaryCurmudgeonI hope they are going in alphabetical order again, so Apex and Athens come up early. The McGregor parents have made a completely logical case for not having their handful of kids moved from Apex to Athens.
Mr. Hui, please keep us posted.
Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 20:49 — g88ky07Y and awn!
A blur of bureaucratic insanity
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 06:29 — Dadof3At what point in the above (no offense directed at the author, by the way) does the logic become a gray blur of monotonous insanity? WC has kids to teach, WCPSS has a utopia to create. Think of how more productive we could be (thanks loriac) if we were to put down our jousting at windmills and return to issues that directly impact improving education. WCPSS moves our kids like toy soldiers on some imaginary battlefield and the whole system continues to destabilize under its own girth.
If we could only break free of Delaney & Co.'s machinations and return WCPSS to solid education, we'd have no reason to come here and complain.
Isn't the AA saying about insanity so apropo here?