Here are a few general takeaways from Monday's CEM meeting at Broughton High School.
First, staff still plans on presenting a revised reassignment plan to the school board on Dec. 16. But it will be more of an overview with the plan probably not being posted online for the public to review until Dec. 20.
Second, Asst. Supt. Chuck Dulaney confirmed that staff will recommend keeping the grandfathering guidelines from last year. This will be welcome news to parents of rising 10th-graders who were worried about being reassigned to an existing high school.
In addition, rising fourth-, fifth-, seventh-, eighth-, 11th- and 12th-graders reassigned to existing schools will also be entitled to grandfathering.
For new schools, rising fourth-, fifth- and eighth-graders will be eligible for grandfathering. New schools don't open with 11th- and 12th-grades.
Dulaney said they'll continue to recommend that rising sixth-, seventh-, ninth- and 10th-graders not get grandfathering if going to a new school.
Dulaney told parents that the final call is up to the school board.
Realistically, the board generally goes with the grandfathering recommendations from staff or adds even more grades. The board doesn't go with less than what staff wants.
As always, the price for granfathering is that you lose transportation if you stay at your current school. This means driving your kid to and from class.
During Monday's meeting, a parent asked if it's possible to extend grandfathering to a whole family so siblings aren't forced to go to different schools. A typical example is a family that has a rising fifth-grader who can be grandfathered and younger siblings who are not eligible.
Dulaney said parents will need to ask the board about extending grandfathering to families.
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Keep Families Together
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 11:43 — Lisa_BI personally LOVE the idea of grandfathering families. All of these new policies and reassignments are just splitting families and more communities. The adversity that is being created between friends and neighbors is unacceptable.
I heard that Chuck admitted that this draft was not built around CURRENT assumptions and statistics, but does that mean he'll go back to the drawing board to make sure that they use ACCURATE data and REVISE the draft accordingly??