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The school board should redistrict AGAIN and implement split sessions this coming fall for the upper grades. Let the parents feel the pain.
Oh, and extra curriculars? Who cares? Kids go to school to learn, not to pad their college applications. Let the community come up with programs on its own. Parents can coach athletics, direct band, supervise the debate team, and figure out how to put on plays. Parents need to be more involved with their kids, anyway.
This will have the immediate impact of slowing growth. Nobody will want to move here.
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Mistake
How would having split seasons at the higher grades resolve the problem with over-crowding at the elementary schools.
Punishing the high schools with split seasons will only result in law suits.
By Lori Spencer
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Think Harder
You would redistrict so the elementary kids would have enough classroom space, which would include space the kids in the upper grades now occupy. The you implement split sessions for the older kids so there is room for all of them, now that some has been taken away for the younger kids.
There's always a risk of lawsuits, no matter what you do in the United States. We're a litigious society. Right now the school board is risking lawsuits by housing younger kids in portables. The minute a younger kids gets hurt or is abducted because they're not in a classroom, the lawsuits will fly.
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Split Sessions
Split sessions would not occur in the elementary grades. Instead, some middle schools would become elementaries and the middle school and Jr. High grades would go on split sessions.
It's too bad parents of older kids didn't realize that a no vote will affect their children as well. With no more room in the elementary buildings, and no room to put portables at some of the elementaries, classroom space at other schools (i.e., the middle schools) is the only answer. Unfortunately, more operating money will be spent to buy more portables to get us through another year before split sessions are implemented. I'm not a school board member, but I don't see any other way. If the bond issue is put on the ballot again, and passes, the schools won't be able to open for the 2008-2009 school year as they would have been able to if it had passed yesterday. And, with construction cost increasing, the cost to build these 2 schools will be more next time.
This was a very economical and efficient option put in front of voters yesterday. It's too bad enough yes voters didn't get to the polls to show their support, and that there are still no voters out there that are voting against new elementaries because they still have a beef with North/Lakeview and/or the school board. What isn't going to change is that the elementaries are still overcrowded. If people are going to vote no because they just can't afford any more taxes, that I can understand. But these other lame excuses!
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