As the school year comes to close, I just received notice that elementary kids in my neighborhood are being re-zoned to a school much further away. My question pertains to the rezoning process, and whether it's unfair rules cause any sort of legal remedy.
According to the school district, it relies on administrators at the school level to notify parents of proposed rezoning. This gives parents the opportunity to weigh in at public meetings. In our case, the school we are being removed from sent out no notices. In reviewing public minutes of meetings, there were dozens of parents from each of the other schools and none from our current school.
I believe this to be intentional. The district (or administrators at the current school) knew the proposals would receive many objections, so they simply didn't notify the parents of kids they wanted to move. I'm troubled by the fact that my neighborhood was essentially disenfranchised by this process by the school district so that it could achieve its desired headcount at each school.
The district should create exact standards for how/when notices are provided to families so everyone has equal access to provide input. The lack of exact standards creates an unfair environment and leads to corruption on the part of the district and administrators, as is the case here.
Written By: boristhinky
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